Sister Says She Was Wrong About Spencer Pratt's Mayor Bid

Family feuds and political campaigns make for messy combinations—and Stephanie Pratt is living proof. Just months after publicly calling voters“idiots”for even considering her brother Spencer’s Los Angeles mayoral run, the 40-year-old has completely reversed course, admitting in a Vanity Fair email interview on Wednesday, May 27, that she was dead wrong.

What changed her mind? The fires. Since the devastating LA wildfires, Spencer has been digging into what went wrong, uncovering negligence and truth that, according to Stephanie, city officials never wanted exposed.“He has spent every day since the fires, finding the facts, the mistakes, the negligence and uncovering the truth that they never wanted us to know,”she told Vanity Fair. It’s a far cry from her February X post declaring that“a vote for him is a vote for stupidity.”

The 42-year-old candidate’s family dynamics are complicated, as he acknowledged in Us Weekly’s latest cover story. His parents are still struggling from fire losses, and while Stephanie“goes back and forth,”his older sister Kristin is solidly supportive. His wife, Heidi Montag, has been“obviously very supportive,”with Spencer sharing that she keeps telling him,“God has a great purpose for you, honey.”The couple share sons Gunnar, 8, and Ryker, 3.

Spencer is currently in second place heading into a June 2 primary against incumbent mayor Karen Bass and fellow candidate Nithya Raman. He’s also garnered celebrity backing from Paris Hilton, Jenny McCarthy, and power couple David Foster and Katharine McPhee, who hosted a fundraiser at their home earlier this month. Foster and McPhee released a statement saying they believe Spencer is“the right man for the right job at the right time”for what they call“the exhausted majority”demanding a cleaner, safer Los Angeles.

What’s particularly striking isn’t just Stephanie’s flip-flop—it’s what it reveals about how crisis reshapes perception. When Spencer first announced, he was the reality TV guy making a political stunt. But post-fire investigations into government accountability hit differently when your family’s home is gone and real answers are still missing.