Paris Hilton recalls being ‘publicly humiliated’ by David Letterman, Sarah Silverman

Paris Hilton speaks out about ‘abuse’ in the media and explains how David Letterman and Sarah Silverman used her 2007 prison sentence as a place to sleep.

“There’s no way this would happen today,” the 40-year-old entrepreneur and media personality said during an episode of her podcast. This is Paris. “It’s such a different world today.”

Still, as I ponder the New York Times Presents documentary Framed by Britney Spears, Hilton acknowledged that television presenters and comedians late at night had certain goals for their comedy at the time, including herself, Spears and Jessica Simpson. Some of Hilton’s worst experiences come right around her DUI arrest in 2006 and the subsequent jail term in 2007.

“At this point, I hadn’t done an interview for months and months because I just did not want to talk about it. So Letterman called my PR team to show me and we said no. And months later I got a scent and his team called again.and basically, my PR team made an agreement with him that it was off limits and that he would not discuss it, and that we would just be there to buy the perfume promoted and my other businesses, “Hilton explained.” I felt it was a safe place because I had been going to Letterman for so many years and he always had fun with me and made a joke, but I thought that he would keep his word on this, and I was wrong. ‘

The interview recently reappeared on social media as people began to pay attention to old interviews with young female celebrities and judge the way many were abused by the media. With this one in particular, Hilton said that Letterman was “deliberately trying to humiliate me.”

‘So there did not have to be a single question [about jail time] and then he just kept pushing and pushing me, and I just got so uncomfortable and I was so upset, “Hilton continued. During commercial breaks, I would look at him like, ‘Please stop doing this. You promised me that you would not talk about this and that is the only reason I agreed to come to the program. Please do not bring this up again. “He’s like, ‘Okay.’ And then it’s just the whole audience, he made people laugh. It was just very cruel and very mean. And after it ended, I just looked at him and said, ‘I’ll never get on this show again. You have crossed a line. ”

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Hilton said Letterman immediately made efforts to apologize to her by “sending letters and calling my team.” Eventually she ended up in the program again when she was promoting another perfume.

With someone Hilton has not spoken to since the comedian was targeted before her 45-day sentence, Silverman is, however.

“What Sarah Silverman did was so disgusting and so cruel and mean,” Hilton said as she braced herself over her pending prison sentence as she sat in the audience of the MTV Awards, which Silverman presented, hours before Hilton gave her up.

“I just got dressed this time, went there, I made this commitment … I tried to do courage. Just to sit in the audience with [Silverman] me just literally humiliated in public, so mean, so cruel. I sat there and wanted to die. I tried to hold back my tears so hard, I made tears well up in my eyes, I literally wanted to run out of the whole room, but I was just trying to be strong and sit there. The whole audience laughed, “Hilton recalls.”[She] would not stop. It was so painful, especially what I went through in my life to have someone so mean then was really hard. ‘

Hilton posted a clip from her podcast about Silverman’s braai on her Instagram, calling it one of the “more traumatic experiences of my life.”

“I can make a joke, but I got caught off guard by a fellow female entertainer,” Hilton was quoted as saying by the post. “On the first day of Women’s History Month, we should all be happy that comedy is moving forward, and that the benchmark has been set for the sake of contemporary young women.”

Silverman was recently called upon to fry Spears at the same MTV Awards, calling the singer’s children ‘adorable mistakes’ just after her performance. Although Silverman still had to apologize to Hilton or Spears in public, the comedian did address the remarks about the singer on Twitter.

According to Our Weekly, Silverman also addressed the hurtful jokes a few days after he was presented.

“The joke everyone was upset about – I call the kids ‘adorable mistakes’ – was the most harmless joke. It never occurred to me what would be considered hurtful,” she told the publication at the time. “I do not want to quarrel with girls half my age. I’m funny in it and not for the drama. It’s an embarrassment.”

In the podcast episode, Hilton praised the growing conversations around mental health and the #MeToo movement for the way ‘women are respected now’ and said that people ‘finally do the right thing’. And while she does not want to wish that kind of harassment on anyone, Hilton admits that past abuse helps her deal with it.

“I think the only reason I was able to go through it all and be so strong is because as a teenager I went through hell and back every day to be daily verbally, physically, emotionally and psychologically abused. So that was before I became famous “That was before I was anything. That was when I was developing as a young girl,” Hilton explained, referring to her time at Provo Canyon School. “I think I went through something like that, it got me just made very strong, almost as if I was used to it. Which is a shame to think, but I think if I did not go through it, I do not know where I would be at this stage because the type of abuse … It is literally abuse. ‘

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