“I said some dumb stuff.”
If you’re of a certain age, you probably watched a lot of Laguna Beach when it aired on MTV during the 2000s.
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One of the hit reality show’s biggest stars was Kristin Cavallari, who also went on to star in the spinoff The Hills (which, let’s be real, you probably also watched).
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Kristin was 17 years old when she first appeared on Laguna Beach — so, naturally, she has some regrets about things she said on the show, as well as how she behaved.
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During a recent episode of her podcast Back to the Beach with Kristin and Stephen, Kristin told her cohost — former costar and ex-boyfriend Stephen Coletti — that she gave herself an “F” for how she behaved during the show’s second episode.
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“I said some dumb stuff,” she said. “I looked like a little brat. I’d say this was not my best episode for sure.”
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Kristin specifically referred to a scene in which she used an ableist slur to refer to salad dressing that she’d made for dinner.
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“I mean, like, I feel like I would get canceled for something like that today,” she said.
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Stephen agreed, saying that “we all look back on some of this stuff that we say and, you know, shake your head.”
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Kristin also said the hardest part of rewatching Laguna Beach is “hearing how I fucking talked” and that watching the first season when it aired prepared her for being on the show’s second season.
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“I will say I went into Season 2 with a much different mindset,” she explained. “Because, you know, you only know so much while you’re filming the season, what’s going to happen, how it’s going to be edited.”
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“And then when you see it, you’re like, ‘Wow, OK. This is what they do.'”
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Listen to the entire episode here.