The Hills: New Beginnings: Audrina Patridge returns after divorce

Audrina Patridge after her divorce returned to The Hills: The Beginnings revival Monday along with newcomer Mischa Barton after being a revenge porn victim.

The 34-year-old reality star was a main cast member for all six seasons of The Hills when it originally aired on MTV from 2006 to 2010.

The premiere of the sequel opened with Audrina moving into her post-divorce home following her split from motorcycle rider Corey Bohan.

She drank wine with Whitney Port, 34, and Heidi Montag, 32, and said she would have never guessed that she would be age 33 and a single mom with a girl.

All of them now had children aged three and younger, and marveled at how their lives had changed.

‘I sometimes wake up, and I’m like, ‘Oh my god, there’s a little child in the other room that I’m completely responsible for,’ said Whitney, mom to Sonny, almost three.

‘It’s really hard for me to leave him, even with [my husband] Spencer,’ said Heidi, of son Gunner.

‘I just don’t feel comfortable and I have severe anxiety.’

Audrina empathized, saying it had also been hard for her to detach from her daughter

‘It gets really hard, the divorce, and aside from that, the custody battle,’ she said.

‘All I can do is be the best mom for Kirra [age 3]…and it’s hard.’

Audrina later told her friends about her unhealthy relationship with Corey.

‘I was so numb and isolated and so depressed I lost over 20 lbs.

I felt like I had no one else, I had to make this work,’ she said.

‘That’s why we got married, because I was pregnant.

I was trying to do the right thing, which now I know is not the right thing,’ Audrina added.

Audrina told her pals that her former on/off boyfriend 37-year-old Justin Brescia aka ‘Justin Bobby’ checked in on her after her divorce.

Audrina and Justin later met for dinner but they weren’t calling it a date or revealing if anything happened afterward.

Mischa, 33, was new to the show after starring on the Fox teen drama The O.C.

that inspired Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County and its spin-off The Hills.

It was revealed that Mischa and Stephanie Pratt, 33, were longtime friends.

Mischa drove to the beach where she ate fruit and hummus with Stephanie and they discussed their recent troubling times.

She told how she started acting at age eight and was only 17 when she booked The O.C. and was ‘not prepared for that level of fame’.

She also told Stephanie that she ‘fell in love with the wrong guy’ and became the victim of revenge porn.

‘He was recording me in the shower.

He had a stockpile of footage,’ Mischa said.

Mischa said she was hounded by gossips like Perez Hilton, whom she called ‘a bully’ for making her and other women obsessed with their weight.

The actress said she ended up plagued by anxiety.

‘Being in Los Angeles, I learned you’re surrounded by people who you can’t trust,’ Mischa sighed.

Stephanie, who’d known Mischa ‘forever,’ struggled with addiction to meth as a teen, and was arrested for stealing clothes while on drugs the year before joining The Hills.

‘I OD’d on drugs while I was shoplifting,’ she admitted to Mischa as the two sat together on the beach.

‘I woke up in a hospital bed, handcuffed.’

‘I’ve definitely had my share of really dark times,’ she said of her twenties.

‘Yeah I was lost,’ she continued.

‘I’ll be the first to admit it.’

‘I try to run away from all my problems, but I just know one day they’re all gonna be at my front door,’ Stephanie said.

Stephanie, Spencer’s sister, was shown emerging from an airport as she returned from London, where she’d been living for years after falling out with her brother.

‘I needed a whole new city, a whole new country, new friends,’ she confessed.

‘So I moved to London.’

She lamented how estranged she and her sibling, to whom she was once close, had become—adding that she’d found out he was having a baby from the Daily Mail.

Her brother was less than thrilled to find out that their mutual friend, club impresario Frankie Delgado, 38, was throwing a ‘Welcome back, Stephanie Pratt’ party. 

Spencer went off to meet Brody Jenner, 35, at Hyde, their old stomping grounds in the early days of The Hills.

He said that he had been ghosted by Brody after the former model got married in Indonesia in June 2018—and webbhotell was not even invited to the wedding.

‘I was shook, but I don’t hold grudges,’ he said nonchalantly.

‘J/K, I obviously do. So this is gonna be fun.’

Brody’s new wife, Kaitlynn, 30, shared the same name as his father Caitlyn—a fact that Frankie teased him about.

‘There was a reservation that Kaitlynn Jenner was coming to the club, and everybody got excited that it was your dad,’ the father of two told him.

‘And it was your girl.’

Brody listed all of the things that had changed since his last appearance on The Hills, adding: ‘Oh, and my dad, he also became a woman, don’t forget about that one.’

After ages apart, Stephanie and Audrina also met for drinks, feeling like ‘no time has passed,’ Audrina said.

Stephanie said that she wanted to move back to L.A.

to re-establish a relationship with Spencer.

 

‘Spencer seems like a different person,’ Audrina insisted to Stephanie.

‘He is humbled, and a nice guy, and funny.’

Brody, now a DJ with near-weekly gigs, bickered with his wife about his late hours. The evening before, he had fled their bedroom after she wouldn’t stop screaming at him.

‘What’s it like, sleeping in a car, in your driveway?’ asked Kaitlynn pointedly, referring to his place of refuge.

‘I came home to a psychopath,’ he said.

‘I went to the truck to go to sleep because I was terrified of you.’

Brody noted that his wife wanted to have children, but said that until they did he would continue to live selfishly.

‘I think that’s why she wants me to have kids so bad, is because she wants me to change in that way,’ he opined.

He later videochatted with pal Brandon Lee, the son of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee, at his Malibu home.

‘Did you take down anything last night?’ Brody crudely asked.

‘I just woke up man,’ retorted Brandon. ‘It’s noon. But do the math.’

The two men had been friends for years, explained Brandon, a former model and actor who had been working since he was 15.

He had always viewed Brody as ‘a badass,’ and called himself a ‘troublemaker’ as a kid.

When other kids asked him about his mom, he would simply say that she was an actress, inevitably getting dragged into sharing that she played CJ on Baywatch.

He hadn’t seen Pamela in quite some time, he added.

‘She moved to France when Trump got elected and was just like, ‘Peace out.’ Brandon revealed.

Pamela showed up to tour her son’s new digs, critically eyeing his furniture and the food in his kitchen pantry.

‘We have to have snacks in here, mom,’ Brandon teased her.

‘People eat. You don’t eat.’

‘Growing up with my mom being a sex symbol and my dad being a rockstar was crazy,’ Brandon admitted, noting that he was not speaking to the former Mötley Crüe drummer.

‘Me and my dad have our ups and downs for sure,’ he said.

‘This guy got famous at 18 years old. And most people know that when you get famous at a certain age… you end up staying that age.’

Pamela, who was busy saging his home, called their family ‘a little dramatic and crazy.’

The episode concluded with a look at next week’s terrifying guest: Perez Hilton, who Mischa once abhorred.

‘Just a heads up: Spencer and I invited Perez.

It’s going to be a good chance to clear the air,’ Mischa said, reading a text from Heidi as she prepared to go to Stephanie’s party.

‘You’re going to run into him eventually being back in LA,’ said Audrina. ‘If you’re going to squash it, just do it now.’