Audrina Patridge blames “The Hills” for the demise of her relationship with Chris Pine in the late-aughts.
“He didn’t like going out and being followed by the paparazzi — he was an introvert, and very focused on his acting,” the reality star-turned-author, 37, recalls in her new memoir, “Choices: To the Hills and Back Again.”
“I loved to go out, and of course I was usually filming ‘The Hills’, so our lifestyles were complete opposites in that sense.”
The former couple — who met in April 2009 at Las Vegas’ ShoWest Awards, where Partridge was honored for her role in the horror flick “Sorority Row” — made a concerted effort to avoid the tabloid attention that made Pine, now 41, uncomfortable.
She writes that the couple would go out in Los Feliz or Silver Lake, two areas in East Los Angeles to avoid the paparazzi and a fan once snapped their photo in a restaurant, which she says seemed to “annoy” him. She was also photographed leaving his home once.
Patridge’s commitment to MTV’s iconic unscripted series ultimately made it impossible for her relationship with Pine to last.
“With my filming schedule, and the fact that there was no way Chris would want to be on [‘The Hills’], I just knew that after a couple months that I couldn’t date him,” she notes. “My life was the TV show, and there weren’t enough hours in the day to do my job and find time to see him privately.”
Patridge adds, “He was a big up-and-coming actor with demands on his time, and it didn’t seem like our lives were lining up, even though we really liked each other.”
According to the Prey Swim founder — who appeared on “The Hills” for six seasons from 2006 until 2010 — the duo parted ways amicably.
“We talked and stayed in touch a little after we stopped seeing each other. I have nothing but fond memories of Chris,” she writes. “He was truly one of the most normal people I’ve ever met in LA — and I mean that as the highest compliment.”
Page Six has reached out to Pine’s rep for comment.
In addition to Pine, Patridge famously dated fellow “Hills” alum Justin Bobby Brescia and musician Ryan Cabrera. She eventually married Corey Bohan — with whom she shares daughter Kirra, 6 — but finalized her divorce from the former BMX athlete in 2018.
More recently, at a February Super Bowl party, Patridge was spotted cozying up to actor Josh Henderson, Page Six exclusively reported at the time.
However, she is seemingly single these days, as is Pine. The “Star Trek” star reportedly broke up with actress Annabelle Wallis in March after nearly four years together.
“Choices: To the Hills and Back Again” is out now.
