Heidi Montag: 'I Cried Myself To Sleep' After Video Debut

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FIRST PUBLISHED: February 13, 2008 4:35 PM EST
LAST UPDATED: February 13, 2008 4:58 PM EST

LOS ANGELES, Calif. --

Fans lashed out at Heidi Montag's debut video for "Higher," which apparently took a major toll on the aspiring pop star.

Readers flooded the Internet with comments like, "Makes me feel uncontrollably ill," "beyond pathetic," and "the crappiest video I have ever seen" — but did Heidi have the last laugh?

Her debut single, "Higher," reached number 7 on the iTunes Top 10 pop chart, Us Weekly reports.

"Looks like all the haters are also buying it!" Heidi told Us Weekly.

Regardless of the song's moderate success, the onslaught of negative feedback was something "The Hills" star never imagined.

"I just couldn't understand why people I didn't even know felt the need to be so cruel and hurtful toward me," she told Us. "I cried myself to sleep that first night after my video came out. I am just a 21-year-old from a small town in Colorado trying to follow her dreams."

Standing by his woman and his work, Spencer Pratt, who also directed the video, was there for Heidi in the dark hours following the video's release.

"I just held her and told her it was going to be OK," he told Us. "This is just part of being an artist. If it were easy, everyone would be a pop star."

And how did the fan-slammed video come to be?

"We were at the beach and, literally, Spencer had his camera and a boom box in the trunk," Heidi recalls. "We did it in one take, maybe two, and it took us 20 minutes to film and cost us zero dollars. We had other ideas but we couldn't afford them."

Don't count out Heidi's career as video star, Spencer told People, Heidi's next video will “blow people’s minds very soon.”

Until then, we'll have to enjoy Heidi frolicking around on the beach in a bikini.

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