Spencer Pratt slams Ben Affleck's resurfaced claim that 'the cure for addiction is suffering'

Spencer Pratt called out Ben Affleck over past comments that the actor made about addiction and recovery.In a resurfaced clip from Affleck's 2021 appearance on "The Howard Stern Show," the 53-year-old Oscar winner, who has publicly battled alcoholism for years, reflected on his own sobriety journey and argued that the "cure for addiction is suffering.""I hate to say it, but the cure for addiction, the only cure I've seen, and not like these f------ overpriced rehabs or a lot of these fraudulent fixes that are sold to people.And they're good people who will support you.

Alcoholics Anonymous, I think by and large, is a good organization.It's not the only one.

The cure for addiction is suffering," Affleck said.Spencer Pratt blasted Ben Affleck's past comments about the "cure for addiction." (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images; PG/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)"You suffer enough that something inside you goes, ‘I’m done,'" he continued."And I'm lucky because I hit that point where I lost really the things that were the most important.

It was not my career or money.It was my relationship with my kids.""And what I felt as if it impacted them," Affleck said.

"I recognized it.It was the worst day of my life.

I made amends.And for a while I thought, ‘Maybe this is temporary, maybe this feeling is going to go away.’ But since that day, I swear to Christ, I have not ever wanted to drink once."On Monday, Pratt, a former Los Angeles mayoral candidate who made the city's addiction crisis one of his signature campaign issues, reposted the clip along with a blistering criticism of Affleck's viewpoint.WHY SPENCER PRATT’S LOS ANGELES CAMPAIGN HAS AMERICA PAYING ATTENTION"I’d love for Ben to join me on Skid Row and explain his addiction theory to the methed out psychos skinning dogs alive and sleeping in their own feces," Pratt wrote.

"Plenty of suffering out there, and yet…somehow the addiction persists.I wonder what the difference is…"Fox News Digital has reached out to repre...