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Currently hawking her new novel The Truth About Diamonds, Nicole Richie says she would not speak to hotel heiress Paris Hilton should their paths ever cross reports PEOPLE MAGAZINE.
Asked by host Katie Couric about what went wrong among the onetime pals, Richie simply said, "We just grew apart."
Last week, Richie told 20/20 the rift isn't tied to a specific incident or rivalry and that contrary to the widely circulated rumor, she did not show Hilton's infamous sex tape to friends when Hilton was asked to host SNL without her.
"Do you know, there is nothing that really happened. We have just grown apart. And, you know, we are just no longer friends," she said.
However, 20/20 reported that the real reason for the rift may have been financial reports PerezHilton.com.
"Nicole felt that she was bringing as much to the table in, in 'The Simple Life' as Paris was. So why is Paris making $5 million a year and not me?," People magazine's executive editor, Peter Castro, told the news mag. "I think a lot had to do with rivalry and jealousy on both ends."
Meanwhile, according to Inside TV magazine, Richie reportedly sent Hilton an advance copy of the novel, which upset the hotel heiress. ''She calls Nicole a 'jealous bitch,' " a friend of both women told the magazine.
Richie's first novel, the not-so-''semi-autobiographical'' The Truth About Diamonds features a Paris clone as the book's villain
Later on Friday, on Live! With Regis and Kelly, Richie said the novel's character Simone was a composite, not based on Hilton as suggested by the show's guest host, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper.
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