Posted on 06/11/2007 8:36:28 PM PDT by indcons
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Paris Hilton says she is locking up her "dumb" act and throwing away the key.
Hilton revealed her new outlook in a weekend phone call to Barbara Walters from a county jail medical ward where she is serving out a 45- day sentence for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case.
"I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute," Hilton said during the call, according to an account posted by Walters on ABC's Web site.
"It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me."
After spending three days in jail last week, Hilton was briefly released to electronically monitored home confinement Thursday for an undisclosed medical condition. An outraged judge sent her back to jail Friday.
According to ABC News, the call came after Hilton's mother, Kathy, phoned Walters. During the conversation, Paris Hilton called her mother on another line, found out her mother was talking to Walters, and then called Walters collect. All jail inmates are required to call collect.
Hilton reiterated assertions that jail has changed her: "Now, I would like to make a difference. ... God has given me this new chance."
In a related development, the Rev. Al Sharpton met with Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca on Monday and told reporters afterward that Hilton's situation exemplified an unfair legal system.
"People who cannot afford the best lawyers, people who cannot afford the best doctors are not going to get an early release," Sharpton said.
Baca has denied giving any special treatment to Hilton by reassigning her to home detention.
Also Monday, a claim against the county was announced by a black woman who has a prosthetic leg and was recently an inmate at the same jail where Hilton was held last week.
Her attorney, Gloria Allred, said Pamela Richardson, 51, also "had serious medical issues" but was treated much worse than Hilton. A claim against a government entity is a precursor to a lawsuit.
She dropped out of high school but got her GED a couple of years ago.
Great, she'll probably end up in one of my nonmajor computer courses.
Sorry FRiends, I got bored and just started making some crap up.
Good one! RFLOL
I for one, wish her well. At 26 she still has plenty of time to reinvent herself. I hope she can do it.
Good luck Paris.
I can’t wait for Paris Hilton to discover the cure for Cancer.
Didnt I hear she started screaming Mommy...MOMMY!
I’m sure that was heart breaking for her mother.
We'd be talking something on the level of the conversion of Saul on the road to Damascus...
Do you realize that because of your screen name, I’m going to have the !@#&*$#^% Rolling Stones song stuck in my bead for the rest of the day??? ;-)
Great Post!
I would hope it would also be embarrassing. I have a 27 yr old daughter who got to spend the afternoon in the poke for an unpaid speeding ticket. She called in hysterics because she'd never had anything like this happen before and they'd put her in a holding cell with some prostitutes. Until this happened, she'd had a cavalier attitude about everything. Not anymore. Things like this can make one's lights come on in a hurry. *chuckle*
Now we know she has a “severe case of ADD”, according to TMZ.com. That would have made classroom study very difficult without meds.
See post #53
It may not be her brain as much as her motivation, or lack thereof. She knew she would never have to do a days work in her life.
It never was cute.
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