Heidi Montag Loses Stepbrother

The Hills star Heidi Montag has sadly lost her 24-year-old stepbrother, Eric O'Hara, on Thursday in a freak accident in Colorado. Eric died after slipping off a roof at his work, the Steamboat Grand Resort Hotel in Steamboat Springs, while he was trying to remove snow. Heidi released a statement via her rep earlier today. "Losing my brother, at an early age, is such a tragedy. I just loved him more than anything. He was just so patriotic. He really wanted to go to Iraq and help and do all that he could for his country. He felt like it was his duty. I'll really miss him," she said of Eric, who was a veteran of the Iraq war.

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