Kristin Cavallari came to fame as a reality TV villain in the early aughts, when she was somehow portrayed as the other woman in her own relationship on Laguna Beach and then continued to ruffle feathers on The Hills. It turns out she hadn’t planned on joining the spinoff, and she recently opened up about why she did it, despite knowing that MTV had cast her specifically to antagonize her co-stars.
It’s been 20 years since Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County wrapped its run on MTV, with Lauren Conrad going on to lead The Hills when it premiered months later. Conrad exited the spinoff in Season 5, and Kristin Cavallari was brought in to ensure peak drama. The whole thing was marketed as, “The bitch is back” — a fact Cavallari apparently knew going in. She told SiriusXM’s The Julia Cunningham Show:
