Stephanie Pratt is now backing her brother Spencer Pratt’s campaign for Los Angeles mayor, reversing the sharp criticism she levelled at him earlier this year. In an email to Vanity Fair, she said she had been the first person to call voters idiots if they supported her brother, but now says he has spent every day since the fires digging into the facts, the mistakes, the negligence and what she described as the truth they were never meant to know.
The change matters because she is not just any observer of the race. She publicly turned on him in February, writing on X that he was unqualified, inexperienced and only trying to stay famous and sell his memoir. She also said a vote for him was a vote for stupidity, said he did not belong in government, and recalled that he beat her up when she was 18 and put her in the hospital. For Spencer Pratt, who launched his independent bid in January on the one-year anniversary of losing his home in the Palisades Fire, her support adds an unexpected family endorsement to a campaign already drawing attention in a city where polling has him trailing Democratic incumbent Karen Bass by single digits.
Pratt’s campaign has leaned on frustration over Los Angeles city government and on his work after the fires, and that is the version his sister now says changed her mind. She has not laid out a detailed explanation for what shifted beyond her claim that he has spent months chasing answers about the fires and their aftermath. That leaves the central question open: whether her reversal reflects a broader change in how she sees his run, or only a narrow respect for the way he has pursued the issue that brought him into the race in the first place.
For now, the practical result is simple. A candidate who entered the race as an independent and has tried to turn notoriety into momentum has picked up support from someone who once warned the public away from him in the bluntest possible terms. In a contest where he is still well behind an incumbent but close enough to matter in the polls, that kind of turn can help keep his bid in the conversation even if it does not change the shape of the race.
