Heidi Montag grateful for 'blessing' after losing family home during LA wildfires

The Hills prima Heidi Montag has spoken retired connected losing her family's mansion successful the caller LA wildfires, which has killed astatine slightest 29 radical and destroyed thousands of properties

Reality star Heidi Montag, 38, has opened up astir the affectional toll of losing her location successful the LA wildfires.

The erstwhile Hills star, who is joined to Spencer Pratt and shares 2 children with him, lived successful a $3.7 cardinal mansion earlier it was destroyed successful the Pacific Palisades blaze. Speaking connected the On with Mario Lopez podcast, she thanked her fans who person sent her 2010 medium Superficial backmost into the charts pursuing the disaster.

She said: "That was specified a blessing. It's truthful comic however God tin usage the hardest happening successful your beingness to beryllium specified a bully happening but conscionable to person everybody rally astir america and our family, it just... I get truthful affectional due to the fact that losing everything is truly hard. Your kids' stuff, and things, a location is not conscionable a spot that you live, it's a spot that you emotion and it's your sanctuary and it's your memories, and it's your heart."

She added, "So that was truly challenging, but to person everyone enactment america and to assistance physique america backmost up and rebuild our house, would beryllium amazing. We're conscionable truly thankful for the love, and the enactment and the prayers, due to the fact that that's what is making the biggest difference."

Since the fires began successful aboriginal January, they person claimed thousands of properties and astatine slightest 29 lives. The More Is More vocalist recalled the infinitesimal she heard astir the occurrence and had lone minutes to stitchery her astir cherished possessions. She said of the harrowing experience: "I heard astir it astatine 10:30 erstwhile my nanny came successful and was similar 'There's a occurrence down the street'. We saw it, I thought they'd beryllium capable to halt it and past it consumed our location astatine astir 4. So I had my lad home, helium was sick, helium had 104 fever, and I'd been up with him for respective nights successful a enactment trying to chill his assemblage down successful the bath."

"I was successful specified ma mode astir him. Around 1 o'clock, [Spencer] was similar 'Take immoderate you wanna keep.' At that point, you lone person a abbreviated magnitude of clip to tally astir the location and get everything. I had apparel packed for the kids, conscionable successful lawsuit it was an overnight. I grabbed their bears. By the time, I thought 'Wow, I'm ne'er gonna get backmost present again...' to leaving, was similar 20 minutes."

Spencer and Heidi stock 2 children, 7 twelvemonth aged Gunner Stone and two twelvemonth aged Ryker. She took to Snapchat pursuing the fires, sharing a video successful which she talked astir the disaster portion being comforted by Ryker. "I person nary words... I'm truthful thankful that we're safe. I'm truthful bittersweet our location is gone. I privation I could person gone backmost and got more. I didn't deliberation it would beryllium the past clip we would beryllium successful our house. I'm truthful bittersweet for everyone other going done the aforesaid thing," she said.

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