The Reality Backstab: Lauren Conrad and Heidi Montag

Before there were influencers, there was The Hills, and the cataclysmic fallout between Lauren Conrad and Heidi Montag defined a reality generation. The inner circle dismantled when Heidi and her partner Spencer Pratt were accused of manufacturing and leaking a highly damaging, false rumor regarding Lauren’s private life. During a dramatic confrontation that aired on MTV on 3 September 2007, a tearful Heidi tried to corner Lauren to make amends outside a nightclub, prompting Conrad to deliver the cold, unyielding line: "I want to forgive you, and I want to forget you."