The cast of "Laguna Beach" admits that watching their high school selves back on screen is every bit as cringe-worthy as it seems. On the finale episode of the "Back to the Beach" podcast, it was revealed that many cast members refuse to watch the show back. "I actually haven't watched full episodes ever," Lauren Conrad admitted. "I used to skip over other people's parts and I used to just watch my own," To which Kristin Cavallari quipped back, "Maybe that was smart." But Conrad took the time to rewatch herself in her high school days before joining the podcast saying it was "so much worse than [she] imagined it would be."

"You're the first one that has seen the show since it has aired," Stephen Colletti told Conrad on "BTTB." Cavallari also had a hard time reliving her teenage years on the show. "I blacked it all out of my memory," she confessed. But despite how cringey those memories might be, the platform far outweighs any dignity lost. "I wouldn't be able to build the career I have without it," Conrad said. 

Producers still managed to keep some humanizing moments in the episodes, with graduation and prom being heartwarming events that Colletti, Cavallari, and Conrad happily look back on. "They did a good job of keeping those moments in there, I don't think that would happen today," Conrad added. "They had to keep a storyline, but there was [sic] also parts in there that were very like, this was high school, it feels very nostalgic and sweet."

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