Lauren Conrad stirs up readers' outrage with book-destroying video
Former 鈥淭he Hills鈥� star Lauren Conrad faced a backlash after she posted a video of a do-it-yourself craft project which involved destroying books.
Conrad has been posting a video series on her website titled Crafty Creations in which she shows viewers how to make objects such as a ribbon headband. Last week, the new segment aimed to demonstrate how to create a storage box using books by ripping out the pages and attaching the covers to the sides of a box.
Conrad removed the video yesterday after news articles, including one on , were posted critiquing it.
鈥淟ast Thursday, she destroyed books to the soothing sounds of gentle guitar, and a box occurred,鈥� Gawker writer Caity Weaver wrote.
Because the novel being cut into pieces in the video was a "Series of Unfortunate Events" title, the website reached out to the series鈥� author, Lemony Snicket, for his opinion on the video.
Snicket appeared to take the incident in stride.
鈥淚t has always been my belief that people who spend too much time with my work end up as lost souls, drained of reason, who lead lives of raving emptiness and occasional lunatic violence,鈥� Snicket said. 鈥淲hat a relief it is to see this documented.鈥�
Other commenters, however, were more outraged by Conrad鈥檚 crafty actions.
鈥淭here are people out there who do really creative and useful things with old unwanted books, which gives them a new life and purpose,鈥� one commenter wrote on . 鈥淭his is not one of those things. This is heinous.鈥�
