Sarah Silverman publicly apologized to Paris Hilton after the hotel’s heiress recently recalled jokes the comedian made about her time in prison during the 2007 MTV Movie Awards.
Speaking about her “The Sarah Silverman Podcast” on Thursday, the funny girl said she only recently learned that a letter she wrote to Hilton years ago was never received. She said she regretted the “heavy” jokes “kind of right away.”
“So here I am, 14 years later, telling you, Paris, that I’m really sorry,” said Silverman, according to Us Weekly. “I was then and I am, much more completely and with much more understanding, I think, now.”
Silverman told the jokes at the 2007 awards, which came just a day before she was sentenced to prison for parole violation. Hilton was also present.
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During his routine, Silverman would have joked: “I heard that, to make her feel comfortable in prison, the guards are going to paint the bars to look like a penis. I just worry if she is going to break her teeth on these things.”
Hilton recalled the humiliation she felt at that time in an episode of her own podcast with sister Nicky Hilton this week. She said she was sitting there, “wanting to die”.
“I was obviously very nervous. I went to the MTV Awards. I knew I was about to go to prison in a few hours … just getting dressed, going there, trying to be brave. And then just sitting in the audience with her literally humiliating me. publicly, being so stingy, so cruel, “said Hilton.
Hilton recalled that “the whole audience laughed” and that Silverman’s jokes “did not stop”.
“It was very painful,” recalls Hilton.
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Hilton responded to Silverman’s apology on Thursday, calling the comedian’s words “genuine” and “so sweet”.
“It really moved me,” Hilton told her sister in Thursday’s episode of “This is Paris”.
“I was thrilled to hear that and I could tell that she really meant what she said when she was apologizing. Thank you, I really appreciate you doing that,” she added.
Hilton was sentenced to three days in prison for a probation violation stemming from a DUI arrest. She was housed at the Century Regional Detention Center in Lynwood, California, but was released earlier. She then served 20 days under house arrest.
In recent months, Hilton, now 40, has been talking a lot about her life in the limelight and her public image. In addition to being the target of Silverman’s jokes, she also drew attention to an earlier interview with David Letterman that made her uncomfortable.
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The star said she appeared on “The Late Show With David Letterman” in September 2007 to promote a new perfume, but was quickly pulled over to talk about her brief stint in prison. On the podcast, the “Stars Are Blind” singer said Letterman was “pushing and shoving me” to talk about his prison sentence, although he agreed to avoid it.
“It was off-limits and he wouldn’t discuss it and we would just be there to promote perfume and my other endeavors,” said Hilton. “I felt it was a safe place because I have been at Letterman for many years.”
Hilton said that during commercial breaks, she asked Letterman, now 73, to “stop” asking her about the arrest.
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“You promised me you wouldn’t talk about it and that’s the only reason I agreed to come to the show,” she recalls saying.
She said Letterman had agreed to stop talking about his time in prison, but would discuss it as soon as the cameras started rolling again. “It was very cruel and cruel,” said Hilton. “And after it was over, I looked at him and said, ‘I’m never going to the show again. You crossed the line.'”
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After the 2007 meeting, Letterman apologized by sending her a box of wine.
Fox News’ Nate Day contributed to this report.