Let me preface this by saying flat out, and Straight Up, that when I seriously consider this issue,  all I really hope is that somehow Paris comes out of this experience more mature and more responsible then when she went into it.  Her parents would likely be horrified at a mature, responsible and serious Paris, but the world would welcome her with open arms.

I think it is a pathetic state of affairs that her family and her fans have so enabled her to become so functionally worthless that a few days alone in a cell reduces her to a trembling wreck.  Be clear.  She was created in this image.

If somehow this bestows a sense of responsibility into her, I will applaud.  She has an estate worth 50 million or so, and I think she could do as much good in this world as anyone else, if she could pull her pony tail out of her butt and grow up.

That said, it is hard to take this seriously:

Hilton Calls Barbara Walters From Jail

By BARBARA WALTERS

On Sunday at 3 p.m., Paris Hilton phoned me collect from jail. Prisoners must call collect.

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.

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 applaud her for that.

“But,” she said, “I was not eating or sleeping. I was severely depressed and felt as if I was in a cage.”

Psst:  Paris:  Jail….bars…cage…get it?

Never mind.

“I was not myself. It was a horrible experience.”

“How are you different?” I asked.

“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.

If only she is serious.

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 applaud her passion, but Paris, this is a 45 day county jail sentence, not death row, so a part of me is kinda thinking this is overly dramatic.

But despite my cynicism, I truly wish her the best and hope she learns something lasting.

And hopefully, this will be my last Paris post.

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