Transcript of the Paris Hilton Interview

Underwhelming. Paris has the victim routine down pat, too.

Here is a transcript of the show:LARRY KING: We’re happy to welcome Paris. We’re happy to welcome Paris Hilton to Larry King Live.  Good to have her with us. Her parents have been with us. This is her first appearance on this show.Why are you doing this interview?PARIS HILTON: I consider you an icon and I really respect you and it’s an honor for me to be here today.KING: Well, we’re happy to hear that. HILTON: Thank you.KING: But mainly the why do any interview? Why come out and talk?HILTON: I just want to let people know what I went through.KING: You think it’s time to let that happen?HILTON: Yeah. I just,  I’ve been through a lot and it was a pretty traumatic experience. Something I really have grown from and when I heard that you asked me to be on the show I was excited.

KING: What have the last two days been like?HILTON: Some days, overwhelming. You know, I’ve been confined for 3½ weeks in a little cell so it’s just overwhelming to be out and be free again.KING: What was that moment like, we saw you hopping down out. That feeling of freedom.HILTON: It was one of the happiest days of my life. Like, it’s hard to even describe. It was so exciting even just being in the fresh air and looking up at the sky and the stars and being outside and then it was just pandemonium and then as soon as I saw my mom I just ran to her to give her a hug. So that was really exciting for me.KING: What do you think it is about you, Paris, that everybody follows you around? You must have examined this in your life. Why do people, photographers, paparazzi, why you?HILTON: I have no idea. I’m just living my life.KING: You don’t call them up and say I’m going down to Third Street tomorrow. Be there.HILTON: No. Actually from the moment I wake up to when I go to sleep they’re outside my house following me all day long.KING: When did that start?HILTON: I moved to New York when I was 16 and I started modeling and ever since then.KING: So you have now become used to the fact that you have no privacy.HILTON: Yeah. I think it definitely comes with the territory.KING: But you have ultimate privacy in jail.HILTON: Somewhat but there’s always like the officers around, so you don’t really have any privacy in jail but it was nice to be away from all the flashes for a while.KING: How well were you treated?HILTON: I went up to L.A. County. All the sheriffs there were very professional. I was treated like any other inmate, no better, no worse.KING: You were in confinement 23 hours a day?HILTON: Yeah. It was pretty difficult, just the cell was like 8 by 12. So I was alone the entire time.KING: Do you have television in the cell?HILTON: No.KING: No.Radio?HILTON: Nothing KING: Describe what’s in the cell.HILTON: Basically it’s a small room with a metal bunk bed, a toilet right next to the bed connected to the sink and a little metal desk so it’s a very small area.KING: What do you do with the hour you get out?HILTON: For the hour I got to shower and call my family. You only have an hour so you try to make the most of it.KING: Eat in the cells?HILTON: Yes. All the meals are in the cells.KING: Is there a commissary? Can you go and buy extra goodies?HILTON: Every Monday they bring, it’s called the canteen and you can order candy and food and stamps and pencils and paper. I was writing a lot while I was thereKING: Have visitors?HILTON: Saturdays and Sundays for a half an hour. My family came, my friends.KING: Friends could come to? Was there a list? Could you give them a list of who can come? How does that work?HILTON: For inmates and myself, it’s the same, every Saturday and Sunday for a half hour you can have two visitors.KING: And you can tell them who’s coming?HILTON: Yes.KING: Did anybody try to come that you said, “No!”?HILTON: There was a lot of random people and the officers would be like, “Do you know John whatever?” And they were like these random people pretending that they were related to me.So a lot of people would just pretend that they knew me to get in.KING: What did you eat?HILTON: The food was horrible.KING: Horrible?HILTON: Well, it’s jail food. It’s not supposed to be good.KING: What is jail food? OK. Lunch!HILTON: Lunch is basically a bologna sandwich which is they just give a bologna, they call it mystery meat. It’s really scary. And two pieces of bread and some mayonnaise. With orange juice.KING: Would they shove it under the door?HILTON: There was like a littleKING: Pellet hole?HILTON: Yeah. Kind of a whole they would put it through.KING: What did you eat for dinner?HILTON: Dinner was usually the same. It was hot at least.KING: HotHILTON: The only hot meal that was again, this mystery kind of, they call it jail slop, so it wasn’t that tasty.KING: Do you have to wear special clothes?HILTON: I wore the orange jumpsuit just like everyone else.KING: Did you lose weight?HILTON: Not really. I was reading all these rumors and hearing about me losing all this weight but I only lost a couple pounds.KING: Did you hear a lot about what people were saying on the outside?HILTON: Not really, because when you’re in jail you don’t really have any connection with the outside world and I just really wanted to focus on myself. I didn’t really want to hear all the gossip (inaudible).KING: I know you wrote some notes and we’re going to hear from them in a while. Did you get to talk to other inmates?HILTON: Yes. There’s inmates next to me in the cells so we would speak through the vents, you could hear each other and just walking down the hall, just my visit, like my Lara came to visit me, I would see the girls in the hallway and just say, “Hi” They were all really nice.KING: The obvious, the purpose of jail, prison, jail, confinement is to teach a lesson.HILTON: Yes.KING: Or at least that’s a big part of it. Did it work for you?HILTON: It definitely, it was a very traumatic experience, but I feel like God does make everything happen for a reason. And it gave me, you know, a time-out in life to really find out what’s important and what I want to do, figuring out who I am. And I’m, even though it was really hard, I took that time just to get to know myself.KING: Did it change you?HILTON: Yes, definitely. I have a new outlook on life.KING: Was there a couple of days, when did it happen? Quickly? Or did it happen over a period of time?HILTON: In the beginning, it was really hard, really hard for me. It’s kind of a blow. So kind of traumatic. But after a while, I had to accept that I could either make the best of it or make the worst of it. So I just went with the motto don’t serve the time; let the time serve you. And so that really helped.KING: You read a lot?HILTON: A lot. I read a lot of books. I received fan mail from all around the world, so many letters that I would literally sit in bed, like, crying, reading these letters. And it just, it really got me through it.KING: No kidding?HILTON: Really. It was really special. I had no idea, like, how much support from so many different age groups, so many people from around the world. It was really heartwarming.KING: Any critical letters?HILTON: Actually, no.KING: None?
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