The unusual conversation came about because Kathy Hilton, Paris' mother, had phoned Walters, and while the two were talking, Paris called on the other line.

"How are you?" Barbara Walters asked.

Paris answered, "I'm hanging in there."

"I feel as if I'm a different person. I've dropped my appeal. I don't want to cause any more problems."

Barbara Walters asked what happened in the jail that led to her being released or reassigned to her home. She said she had not been wailing, sobbing or screaming as had been described.

"But," she said, "I was not eating or sleeping. I was severely depressed and felt as if I was in a cage. I was not myself. It was a horrible experience."

"How are you different?" Barbara Walters asked.

"My spirit or soul did not like the way I was being seen and that is why I was sent to jail."

"God," she said, "has released me."