Conrad described the “gross” high school name-calling incident as her “most embarrassing moment” on Laguna Beach, and she advised Stephen Colletti not to “feel bad” about his role in the TV love triangle.
Lauren Conrad has one major regret about her Laguna Beach experience.
Conrad apologised to co-host Kristin Cavallari on Tuesday’s episode of the Dear Media podcast Back to the Beach with Kristin and Stephen for calling her a “slut” during a filmed cast trip to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
“My biggest regret, watching it, was calling you a slut,” the Little Market co-founder, 36, admitted.
“I’m truly sorry.”
“I couldn’t believe I’d done it.
Because I don’t think I’d ever call another woman that from where I’m at now “added the mother of two.
“And it was the most embarrassing moment of my life.
‘Oh, gross,’ I thought.”
Cavallari admitted to saying “some really dumb stuff” on the MTV reality show from 2004 to 2006.
“When I look back, that’s like my biggest thing,” the Uncommon James founder, 35, said.
“I wasn’t confident when I watched it now.
I was really insecure.”
She explained to Conrad: “I took [my insecurities] out on you in a variety of ways.
So, I apologise because I said some horrible things.”
Stephen Colletti, Cavallari’s co-host and ex-boyfriend, weighed in on how producers heightened the drama surrounding the trio’s alleged high school love triangle.
“The thing with the show, the moments where some of those lines that we pop off, and whether we’re trying to get a laugh from our friend, it’s just all those insecurities,” he explained.
“And that’s exactly what they’re going to do.”
Colletti, 36, told Conrad that he is still bothered by the fact that she was thrust into the middle of his and Cavallari’s on-again, off-again high school romance.
“I feel bad watching that for you,” he admitted.
“And I’m sorry you ended up in our little hurricane of a relationship.”
But Conrad reassured him, saying, “I don’t believe this is you.
I don’t believe you should feel bad.”
Cavallari admitted that she would have handled things differently if she could go back in time.
“I probably would have directed a little more towards [Stephen] rather than you,” she admitted to Conrad.
“You did it.
“It just wasn’t caught on camera,” Colletti teased, and Cavallari agreed, saying, “True.
Most likely.”
Colletti discussed the show’s producers’ crafted narrative between the trio on an August episode of the podcast.
“I had a huge problem with this because they obviously created this show around this love triangle and there were moments where you and I were broken up and they had learned about Lauren and I hooking up and being very good friends,” he explained.
“And, you know, obviously, stuff happened at certain times,” he admitted, “but I would never, ever step out on you in that way whenever we were together.”
And they really paint [it] as if that’s what I’m doing throughout the show, which I find extremely offensive.”
Colletti did, however, give credit to the trio’s alleged love triangle “the editing genius of [the show]
You have to hand it to them; they really crafted this storyline in such a way that I believe it kept audiences engaged.”