Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt respond to backlash for getting donations after losing home to LA fires
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Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt have responded to the backlash they received for getting donations after losing their home in the Los Angeles fires. Beginning last Tuesday, the Los Angeles area was struck by its worst windstorms in over a decade, fueling fires that have destroyed thousands of structures and claimed at least 27 lives, though the full death toll is not yet known.
![[Heidi and Spencer were also criticized for breaking down in tears while discussing the loss of their home this Wednesday on Good Morning America]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/18/03/94127431-14298793-She_continued_Your_home_is_a_place_that_you_love_that_you_live_t-a-34_1737169305853.jpg)
One blaze in the ritzy Pacific Palisades consumed a number of celebrity homes, including Heidi and Spencer's $2.5 million house in the neighborhood. They fled the disaster area with their two young sons Gunner, six, and Ryker, two, leaving most of their personal belongings behind.
![[Spencer meanwhile shared: 'The worst was like, sorry, our kids' room is like so magical,' adding: 'We do storytime every night']](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/18/03/94127421-14298793-The_41_year_old_Pratt_Daddy_Crystals_owner_got_misty_recalling_h-a-35_1737169315497.jpg)
Although Heidi, 38, and Spencer, 41, did not solicit donations themselves, two of their TikTok friends created a GoFundMe for them - eliciting outrage from social media users who pointed out that many less privileged people had also lost their homes. In reply to the blowback, Spencer insisted he and Heidi are 'not rich,' adding that no one was 'required' to give money to them and 'it's not a tax,' via Us Weekly.
![[They fled the disaster area with their two young sons Gunner, six, and Ryker, two, leaving most of their personal belongings behind; the family are pictured last month]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/18/03/94233435-14298793-image-a-37_1737170423802.jpg)
Spencer is pictured on Friday of last week in an Instagram photo he took in front of some of the ruins that were left by the fires ravaging Los Angeles. 'Speidi,' as they are known to fans, first rose to fame as a reality TV couple on The Hills, which concluded its run on MTV in 2010.
![['Speidi,' as they are known to fans, first rose to fame as a reality TV couple on The Hills, which concluded its run on MTV in 2010; pictured 2019]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/18/03/94233431-14298793-image-m-39_1737170453082.jpg)
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