Paris Hilton won’t appeal
Paris Hilton said she will not appeal a judge’s decision sending her back to jail, after three days crying and rejecting food and water on fears she would be photographed using the toilet.
On Sunday, Hilton was reportedly held under heavy medication in a Los Angeles jail hospital, after Friday’s court appearance, when she was dragged sobbing from court after a judge ordered her to serve out the remainder of her jail term — in jail.
The hotel heiress was released last week after just three days behind bars and told to pay her debt to society under house arrest while wearing an electronic monitoring cuff — provoking a public outcry over possible favoritism.
Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca tagged Hilton with the electronic minder on Thursday and ordered her to serve out her sentence at home for “medical reasons.”
That was not good enough for Judge Michael Sauer, and stunned prosecutors scurried to put Hilton back in jail to head off a public furor.
Sauer ordered sheriff Baca to bring her back to court on Friday morning in handcuffs.
Hundreds of photographers looked on as Hilton apparently broke down, wailing “Mom, Mom, Mom,” as Sauer sent her back to her cell and called his order “final and forthwith.”
Though distraught at the idea of returning to jail, Hilton said in a statement released through her lawyers on Saturday that she would not appeal.
“I told my attorneys not to appeal the judge’s decision,” she said, describing three days in jail as “by far the hardest thing I have ever done.”
Gossip site TMZ.com cited sources saying Hilton was despondent, medicated with a psychotropic drug and using her jail time to reflect on her fate — but not to eat, drink or use the toilet.
“She didn’t eat or drink a single thing for three days because she didn’t want to use the toilet,” a source also told the New York Daily News, adding that Hilton suffered from claustrophobia and hyperventilation.
“She was absolutely terrified that one of the guards or staffers would get her with the cellphone cam and it would wind up on the Internet,” a source identified as a Hilton insider told the newspaper.
“She cried the entire time, and that wasn’t helping the dehydration,” the source said.
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