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Paris Hilton vows to prove jail has changed her

(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-06-28 09:25


Celebrity hotel heiress Paris Hilton has vowed to prove critics wrong and
show she is a changed person after serving three weeks in jail for
violating probation in a drunken-driving case.

"I'm a good person. I'm a compassionate person. I have a big heart. I'm
sincere, and they'll see," Hilton told People magazine in her first
comments since being released on Tuesday from a Los Angeles jail.

Hilton also spoke about why she was briefly released to home detention
after just three days in jail -- a move swiftly overruled by a judge
after a public uproar over whether she was given special treatment.

"I was basically in the fetal position, basically in hysterics ... and
having severe anxiety and panic attacks," said the 26-year-old
multimillionaire in excerpts of the People interview released on
Wednesday.

On Tuesday, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca raised the issue of
suicide -- although stopped short of saying Hilton had been in danger of
harming herself -- when he explained to the county Board of Supervisors
why he had placed Hilton under house detention.

Hilton, who spoke to People at her grandfather's Bel Air mansion after
her blonde hair extensions had been replaced, said that she spent time in
jail reading the Bible and praying to God for strength.

"There was a nun who works at the jail for all the ladies, and she would
come every day and we would pray," said Hilton.

"All of the inmates were very supportive. There were girls next to me,"
she said. "We could talk through the vents and they were just really
sweet."

During her first week in jail Hilton called television journalist Barbara
Walters and pledged to change her party-going ways and give new meaning
to her life by pursuing charity work, saying God has given her a new
chance.

The incarceration of the young socialite and actress, who lampooned her
own persona as a clueless child of privilege on the reality TV show "The
Simple Life," ignited a worldwide media frenzy and debate about celebrity
justice.

The saga hit a crescendo when Hilton was placed briefly under house
detention, sparking an uproar over what many saw as preferential
treatment. A Los Angeles Times analysis, however, found her sentence far
exceeded those served by most inmates for similar offences.

Hilton is also due to appear on CNN's "Larry King Live" on Wednesday
night, but -- wary of growing reader fatigue with the socialite -- People
magazine's rival US Weekly has vowed to keep its next edition completely
free of any Hilton stories.










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