Spencer Pratt Visits D.C. to Support L.A. Fires Investigation, Escalating Battle With Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass: ‘I’m Literally Their Worst Nightmare’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Mr. Pratt goes to Washington, indeed. On Aug. 4, the reality star touched down in the nation’s capital for a three-day trip to meet with a slew of top federal officials including Attorney General Pam Bondi about the catastrophic fires that ravaged Los Angeles in January.

The visit marks an escalation in his battle with California Gov. Gavin Newsom that began last month. “The Hills” star, whose Pacific Palisades home and his parents’ residence were destroyed in the deadly blazes that also tore through Malibu and Altadena, has publicly accused the governor and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass of mismanagement and negligence via viral TikTok videos that he first launched in July. Now, he’s going for the jugular. 

“I’m literally their worst nightmare because I have nothing to lose, and all I’m ever gonna do is just post actual facts,” Pratt tells Variety in an exclusive interview. “The more of these meetings I take, the more I find out about how preventable this was. It’s actually criminal negligence because in the Palisades fire alone, 12 people died. These people shouldn’t have died.”

On his first night in D.C., Pratt met with “three very important people,” though President Donald Trump wasn’t one of them. In fact, Pratt cautions against seeing his crusade against the governor and mayor as political.

“The victims are across all the party lines, mainly Democrats, and they have been sending me a list of questions and requests to [present] to this administration. They do not care who’s sitting in the White House. They just want answers. They want results. They want things solved,” he says. “Like I would have flown to Washington if an alien from Mars was sitting in the White House. I don’t care. I’m here to activate.”

The day after his arrival, Pratt held court with Bilal A. “Bill” Essayli, the Acting United States Attorney for the Central District of California, at the Department of Justice. Given that there is an active FBI investigation into criminal wrongdoing, Pratt was unable to make any TikTok videos during that conversation. 

“The theme [of what we discussed] is in alignment with what many people in the Palisades and Altadena were already feeling — that there’s a lot more to FireAid than it seems. And let’s just say a lot more will be coming out, and this was not ‘Spencer spreading misinformation and suspicions of victims not actually receiving any of the FireAid funds’” he says of the $100 million allocated for wildfire relief. “That investigation is a real deal type of thing.”

A meeting with Bondi followed, which Pratt says was “incredible” because she is committed to getting to the bottom of the disaster. 

“I’ve felt so powerless against Bass, LADWP, Newsom, and I’m just throwing these TikToks out at such a powerful entity. To be able to be in a room with people who can get me information legally, that’s gonna help everyone in the Palisades get the answers that we haven’t had for seven months, like the investigation into the origins of the Palisades fire. So, to be in front of somebody who can provide answers to the victims who have been literally thinking about this all day long for over seven months, that was life changing. Like I went through a portal on that one.”

Over the next 24 hours, Pratt met with officials with the Environmental Protection Agency as well as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins about what can be done at the government level to prevent similar disasters in the future. “She was just an amazing human, like a real-life movie character,” he says of Rollins.

Ultimately, he extended what was supposed to be a two-day trip an extra day before heading back to Los Angeles on Wednesday night. Pratt cannot disclose most of his conversations on the ground. But he says Gov. Newsom should fear what comes next.

“Let’s just say all the dots connect why he looked so insanely panicked, like he already lost the [2028] presidency that day that [a Palisades] mom was screaming at him in the streets,” Pratt says. “Now I know what that look on his face was about. Now I get what he knew then. That he’s been keeping a secret for seven months. Once that comes out, he should just stick to podcasting.”

Pratt’s wife, fellow alum of “The Hills” Heidi Montag, did not accompany her husband on the trip to Washington. He says Montag is busy with her music and raising their two children. (In January, her 2010 album “Superficial” hit No. 1 on the iTunes chart, beating out Bad Bunny, after Pratt encouraged their fans to stream the album as a way of offering support.)

“Everything I ever bought in my life burned down. Everything my parents ever bought in their life burned down. Like the stakes are so real,” Pratt says. “I’m doing this because they destroyed my life. And for the last seven months, I focused on all the good things with Heidi’s music and the positives, but once that wore off, it’s like, ‘I can’t ever have my life back.’ And when you really see everything laid out and the whole way they’ve spun it, it was just the biggest bunch of lies. Propaganda. This was the most preventable thing that could ever have been.”

With that, Pratt pauses before pivoting to his next act. “I’m becoming worse of a nightmare for them every day because now people are finding my number — other people whose lives burned down — and they send text messages that are like rocket fuel to me,” he adds. “I’ll start getting emotionally drained and it’s a lot to manage my anger and hurt and then it’s like, ‘Buckle up. There’s so many people that need you to keep on this.’ This isn’t a three-week thing. This is gonna be 10 years.”