Us Weekly co-conspirator Heidi Montag pops up on this week’s cover, albeit in a small box, to share her reaction to the horror that was her music video. Though the video, shot by sorta-boyfriend Spencer Pratt, made it to No. 7 on iTunes, Montag says the brutal reviews brought her to tears.

But the negative responses – “Makes me feel uncontrollably ill,” “beyond pathetic,” and “the crappiest video I have ever seen” were just some of the comments posted on Usmagazine.com – humiliated Montag.

“I just started sobbing uncontrollably,” The Hills star tells Us.

“I cried myself to sleep that first night after my video came out,” she says. “I just couldn’t understand why people I didn’t even know felt the need to be so cruel and hurtful toward me.”

“I am just a 21-year-old from a small town in Colorado trying to follow her dreams,” Montag says.

Yep, just a breast-augmented, hair-colored 21-year-old who moved to L.A. and seeks out paparazzi, magazine covers, and skeevy photo spreads any chance she can get.

[Us]