Posted on June 11th, 2007 by Jordan Johnson
File Under: Celebrity Videos, Paris Hilton
Paris Hilton called Barbara Walters from jail yesterday for a brief conversation… although why you would call Barbara Walters of all people is beyond me. Anyway, you can watch the video to hear what she said, or just read the transcript:
The unusual conversation came about because Kathy Hilton, Paris’ mother, had phoned me, and while we were talking, Paris called on the other line. When she heard I was talking to her mother, she said she’d like to talk to me herself. She sounded tired but totally aware of what she was saying.
“How are you?” I asked.
Paris answered, “I’m hanging in there.” But she declared, “I feel as if I’m a different person. I’ve dropped my appeal. I don’t want to cause any more problems.” “I’m not the same person I was,” she said. “I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that. I have been thinking that I want to do different things when I am out of here. I have become much more spiritual. God has given me this new chance.”
I asked what kinds of things she might want to do.
She said she would like to help in the fields of breast cancer — her grandmother had breast cancer — or multiple sclerosis. Her father’s mother suffers from that disease. She thought she might get toy companies to build a kind of Paris Hilton playhouse, where sick children might come, and the toy companies could donate toys.
I think this is just another example of how celebrities are treated so much better than anyone else in jail. I mean, who knew that Paris would be allowed to have visits with her publicist while she was in there? You’d think that such an elaborate load of bullshit would have taken weeks for Paris to learn. Then again, I guess since she wasn’t distracted by dick, she had nothing better to do than actually learn her lines.