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Paris' Mom Looks on the Bright Side
Time has apparently given Kathy Hilton a new perspective on Paris' impending imprisonment.
The hotel chain matriarch issued a statement to Barbara Walters on Tuesday, expressing her hope that her daughter's jail sentence will have positive consequences.
"Hopefully, young people who look up to people like Paris will learn from this," Hilton said in a statement read on Wednesday's View by Walters.
That's a noticeable change in attitude compared to the elder Hilton's much-publicized outburst in the courtroom earlier this month when her oldest child was sentenced to 45 days in jail for a probation violation.
After the sentence was read out loud, Hilton laughed in evident disbelief, saying, "I can't believe this, I can't believe this," then marched up to a prosecutor and sarcastically demanded his autograph, saying, "You're pathetic."
As sheriff's deputies approached to restrain her, she screamed, "Don't you touch me, don't you touch me."
Upon leaving the courthouse, she made her displeasure clear to the reporters assembled outside.
"This is pathetic and disgusting, a waste of taxpayer money with all this nonsense. This is a joke," she said.
But just two weeks later, Hilton seems to be making an effort to look on the bright side.
"We can only hope that something positive will come from all of this," she said in her statement.
Walters applauded Hilton's restraint in not using the statement to proclaim her daughter's innocence.
"She didn't say 'my child didn't do it' or 'this is terrible,'" said the View denmother, who has an adult daughter. "She's saying, 'You have to take responsibility.' I thought it was a very strong and very good statement."
Conservative cohostess Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who is currently pregnant with her second child, disagreed.
"You want to discipline your children before the criminal system does," she said.
Paris Hilton, 26, was ordered to report to a county jail by June 5 to begin serving her sentence.
Though the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department initially said that the heiress could expect to serve all 45 days of her sentence, spokesman Steve Whitmore later said the sentence would likely be cut in half due to overcrowding in the jail system and provisions that allow for time off for good behavior.
On Wednesday, Whitmore confirmed that Hilton would serve about 23 days of her sentence in a "special needs housing unit" at the Century Regional Detention Center in suburban Lynwood, California.
The 12-cell unit is separate from the general inmate population and is reserved for police officers, celebrities, public officials and other high-profile figures, Whitmore said. Like her fellow prisoners, Hilton will be allowed out of her cell for at least an hour a day to shower, watch TV, make phone calls or participate in outdoor recreation.
Whitmore said the hotel namesake's sentence was reduced for good behavior, which authorities determined by considering a variety of factors, including that she showed up for her most recent court date.
Apparently, her mother's behavior at said court date wasn't held against her.
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