Paris and her flat affect were on Larry King Live last night. I watched the whole damn thing on YouTube (linked below and available in several parts thanks to user mangoface) and was struck by how fake she was most of the time. She smiles and looks sort of scared and stuff, but overall she came off as bored and uninspired, with one exception that I’ll cover in another post. Even when she was describing emotion-filled moments like how she was elated to get out out of jail or had nightmares that people would break into her cell and harm her at night she kept the same even cadence to her voice like she was talking about a shopping trip.

Here’s most of what was said in the interview. I tried to make it conversational, but it’s like a live blog and it’s obvious that I typed it in when I was watching it:

Paris explained that the illness that got her out of jail for that home spray tanning session was claustrophobia, which she has suffered from her entire life. She said she had severe panic and anxiety attacks and wasn’t sleeping or eating, and that she had already served more time at that point than most people with similar infractions.

Paris said she was told she didn’t have to go back to court before she was hauled in again after being put on house arrest. She said it was terrifying. When Larry King asked her how she coped with the claustrophobia once she was back in she said she meditated, wrote, and read letters. She would close her eyes and imagine she was somewhere else, she said. She also used positive self talk to get through the days.

Paris said she went to the MTV Movie Awards before checking into jail so that she could avoid the whole media circus that was surrounding her house.

Larry King asks Paris what her problems are in life, and if she blames anyone for what has happened to her. She gives a really decent undoubtedly practiced answer that “I think in life, everyone makes mistakes, and we have to learn and grow from them. I’ve been immature in the past and made some wrong choices, but I’ve learned from them and I think that makes me the person I am today.”

Larry asks her about her friends and getting rid of them, and she says “I don’t want people who are not going to be beneficial in my life… and I cut a lot of people out.” She won’t name names, and says “I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings, but they know who they are are.”

Paris read segments from her prison diary, which we’ll cover in a separate post shortly. The interview actually changed at that point, and a touch of the genuine person beneath all that makeup and plastic surgery came out. She actually got to me at that point, but after the next commercial break the mask was back on and she was back to her regular self.

Paris said that she’s had ADD her entire life and has been on medication for that since she was young. She’s never been addicted to drugs, she says when asked, and denies ever taking drugs totally straight faced.

She claimed she’s not a big drinker, that all the stories are false about her doing drugs and partying. She said “that’s not the person that I am… it really baffles me sometimes.”

When Larry asks her if she hung around with people who did those things, she said yes. When asked if she was photographed with people who did those things, she was like “I don’t know.”

She says people make up stories about her, and there’s nothing she can do about it.

She said she likes to go out and dance and spend time with friends, but that she’s not a big partier and that a lot of people don’t know she’s a serious businesswoman. She says the biggest misconception about her is that she doesn’t work.

She said Nicole Richie is like a sister to her and she hopes she doesn’t have to go to jail.

When asked about Britney Spears, you can see that she’s trying not to smirk (it’s in Part 5 of the interview linked below, at 2:40 in)

“Um, she’s [Britney’s] a sweet girl. She’s a good mom, she loves her children. And again I think the media just likes to…

Larry: “They see her do things like go out in a car recklessly and not handle a child, they’re going to be concerned. Did she talk to you about that?” [when she drove with SP on her lap]

“I’ve seen her with her kids, she loves her kids. I think it’s hard for anyone when you’re in the spotlight so much, it’s very overwhelming at such a young age. I feel like a lot of these girls who move out here at a young age are given too much too soon. I’m just lucky that I have my parents who love and support me.”

Part 1 (may be incomplete)
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6

Header image from Splash News.

Wright, The Detroit News, caglecartoons.com