On a recent cover of tabloid rag Us Weekly, The Hills’ Lauren Conrad is featured next to the brazen headline, “How I Was Stabbed In The Back”… which would be intriguing, if that was actually how the young reality star felt.

Feeling taken advantage of, LC did what so many of her contemporaries do when faced with scandal — She wrote about it on her MySpace page.

“Hey! I just wanted to take a moment to clear something up,” begins the post. “I recently did an interview to talk about the show coming back on and what everyone had to look forward to. Unfortunately it was turned into yet another ‘poor me’ story.”

The 22-year-old MTV star continued, “The article itself is a nice one but it follows headlines that, in no way, represent my words or feelings. I do not feel betrayed by Audrina or Brody. I love them both and said nothing to contradict this. I understand that headlines sell magazines, but I value my friendships above magazine sales any day.”

For those of you who want to see the drama for yourselves, the new season of the hit reality show starts Monday on MTV. And Lauren herself had this to say about what to expect: “On a more positive note, I got to see some of the first episode yesterday and it looks amazing. I’m sooooooo excited for everyone to see Paris. Best wishes and I hope everyone tunes in Monday.”

The key to Lauren Conrad’s heart?

Be a bad boy!

“Why don’t you like sweet guys?” Ryan Seacrest asked the Hills star on his show this morning.

“They’re not as fun!” Conrad, 22, admitted. Pal Lauren “Lo” Bosworth agreed, noting, “Sweet boys can be, like, filler.”

Conrad says she’s “easily bored” and dating is all “about the chase.”

“You want the game to be played,” Conrad, 22, says. “You don’t want to have a great time and him to call you right after!”

“It’s weak to text,” Conrad adds.

Seacrest, who said Conrad is “tragic in [the dating] department,” asked, “What’s with you and falling for these guys?”

Conrad replied, “I have no idea!”

The Hills returns with 10 bonus episodes beginning March 24.

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For Lauren Conrad, betrayal has been a fact of life.

“I want to say I can always trust my good friends that I’ve had forever, but at the same time, some of my oldest friends have betrayed me,” the Hills star reveals in the latest issue of Us Weekly, on newsstands now.

For the first time, Conrad opens up to Us in an exclusive interview about how ex Brody Jenner went public with a new girlfriend just days after she left for Paris while best friend Audrina Patridge buried the hatchet with Conrad’s ex-BFF, Heidi Montag.

“At this point, I have to question every person that wants to have a relationship with me, whether it’s a friendship or a romantic relationship,” she tells Us.

The latest betrayals have been especially difficult for Conrad, who battled sex-tape rumors allegedly spread by Montag and caught one-time beau Jason Wahler in a liplock with another girl.

“Audrina has to remind me that she’s not someone who’s going to betray me,” Conrad, 22, says pointedly.

As for Jenner’s rebound, she says, “When you have that type of thing, you always have to question, ‘Why wasn’t I good enough?’”

“It’s disappointing to have to question relationships,” she adds.

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Stephen Colletti rang in his 22nd birthday without on-and-off-again fling Lauren Conrad.

The Laguna Beach alum — who once dated Hayden Panettiere — arrived solo to his bash, which kicked off at Stack restaurant at The Mirage in Las Vegas Friday before moving on to JET Nightclub.

Colletti didn’t seem to care about his single status.

Throughout the night, he threw back Red Bull and vodka cocktails and “got very chatty with a slew of sexy ladies,” says one club-goer. “He spent most of the night dancing as each [woman] patiently waited her turn to groove with the eligible bachelor.”

Colletti took a breather midway through the night to blow out candles on his cake by designer Jean-Philippe Patisserie before hitting the dance floor.

He called it a night around 3 a.m.

Though she’s been spotted making out with Colletti, Conrad recently told Usmagazine.com, “We’re just friends.”

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Lauren Conrad shops at Bleu in West Hollywood in L.A., yesterday.

MTV apparently will be looking for another magazine partner for its hit series “The Hills” next season. The show’s second season ended with Lauren Conrad and her partner in crime, Teen Vogue intern Whitney Port, going to Paris to assist then-senior editor Kimball Hastings as he covered the Crillon Ball. Port is listed as West Coast fashion contributor and Conrad as intern in Teen Vogue’s March issue, the same one where the Crillon Ball coverage will appear, but, according to a spokeswoman, their presence will cease to exist after that. “The girls have moved on from Teen Vogue,” she said, declining to say whether or not Teen Vogue will be part of the series next time (which probably means it won’t be). The two partners benefited greatly from cross-promotion — Teen Vogue featured both girls on its August 2007 cover, a top seller for the year, and Conrad by herself on its June/July 2006 cover. An MTV spokeswoman did not return calls for comment by press time.

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