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Spencer Pratt has confessed that he and his wife, Heidi Montag, squandered $10 million under the belief that the world was on the brink of collapse.
Spencer Pratt made headlines once again more than a year ago when his family lost their home in the catastrophic Pacific Palisades fire. This event spurred the former reality TV personality to embark on a new journey as a mayoral candidate for Los Angeles. Pratt has pledged to relocate if his political bid fails, with his future destination hinging on his financial reserves. Interestingly, those reserves might have been significantly larger. Many years prior, before venturing into politics, Pratt and his wife Heidi Montag had famously admitted to burning through $10 million, convinced by predictions based on the Mayan calendar that the apocalypse was imminent.
Spencer Pratt spent all of his money because of his fear of the Mayan Calendar
In a 2013 conversation with OK! magazine, Spencer Pratt made a startling revelation. At that time, still entrenched in the world of reality television, Pratt disclosed that he and Montag had exhausted their wealth because they firmly believed the world was on the verge of ending. Pratt explained their mindset, saying, “…We heard that the planet was going to end in 2012. We thought, we have got to spend this money before the asteroid hits.”
Pratt told the outlet that he and Montag believed the world was going to end so unequivocally that he would buy cars for friends and hand over $15,000 in cash for birthday gifts. Pratt and Montag even reportedly spent around $1 million on rose quartz crystals.
As everyone knows, asteroids did not hit the Earth, and the world did not end on December 21, 2012. Pratt and Montag’s life as they knew it ended before that, though. He admitted that he and his wife amassed more than $10 million during their short-lived reality TV career, including $175,000 per episode of The Hills and $2 million in paid endorsements. They spent all of it. They had so little money left that they actually moved in with Spencer Pratt’s parents a full year before the presumed end of the world.
What Was the Mayan Calendar Theory?
Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag bought into a viral prophecy that hinged on pretty rudimentary understandings of the Mayan calendar. According to several sources, December 2012 marked the conclusion of a b’ak’tun, a time period in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar used in Mesoamerica before the arrival of Europeans. The Long Count calendar does, in fact, exist. It was, in fact, used by the Mayan people, and a cycle did end in December 2012. That’s pretty much where things ended.
While modern culture and doomsday preppers ran wild with the idea that the end of the calendar meant the end of the world, there is absolutely nothing within Mayan culture to suggest the end of times was near. According to Scientific American, there are no end-of-days prophecies within the culture, and the end of the calendar cycle was actually cause for celebration, not terror or fear. Experts note that the Mayan culture simply reset calendars when they reached the final date in the cycle.