Not that they’re faulting themselves for how dramatically their story has played out over the years.
“We were fame whores, getting literally a million plus a year in photos and being hated for it,” Pratt proudly reflected to Vice’s Broadly in 2016. “It’s frustrating for me that people don’t recognize that this was genius. This was innovating!”
And they still managed to capture that oft-elusive happy ending. “Here we are with our son, and we’ve been together for 12 years,” Montag told E! News’ Justin Sylvester at the 2019 premiere of The Hills: New Beginnings. “And it’s been a great ride, it’s been such a fun adventure.”
Still, if Pratt could offer up a pointer or two, he’d probably suggest his sons avoid some of his gnarlier antics.
Asked to name the most important wisdom he intends to pass down, Pratt’s response was genuine and self-reflective. “Well, the first thing I would teach him is to not burn bridges,” he told Flare. “That’s a hard lesson I learned thinking I could do everything myself without, you know, teammates, or support from friends and family. In business and in life I’ve learned you really need that support system—yes, you, little baby, no you can’t do everything by yourself. So yeah, definitely, no burning bridges, only building olive branches.”
(Originally published Oct. 1, 2019, at 3 a.m. PT)