United States:US heiress Paris Hilton says she is "learning and growing" from her time behind bars and will not appeal her 45-day jail sentence for a probation violation in a reckless driving case.
The reality TV star spent Friday night at a Los Angeles maximum-security detention centre, where she was believed to have undergone medical and psychiatric evaluations to determine the best jail to keep her in.
"Being in jail is by far the hardest thing I have ever done," Hilton said in a statement released yesterday by her lawyer, Richard Hutton. "During the past several days, I have had a lot of time to think and I believe that I am learning and growing from this experience." Hilton, in tears and screaming for her mother, was taken to the downtown Twin Towers detention centre on Friday after a judge ordered her back to jail, ending her brief stint under house arrest at her Hollywood Hills home.
The Simple Lifestar had been escorted from the courtroom shouting "It's not right!" Hilton's lawyers sought to keep her out of jail on grounds that the 26-year-old was suffering an unspecified medical condition.
- (PA)