With the media treatment of women over the last decades being highlighted in public conversation and Paris’ recent admission about how she felt being ridiculed by Sarah Silverman at the 2007 MTV Movie Awards, Paris reacts live to Sarah Silverman’s apologizes to Paris. Listen in as Paris shares her thoughts after reading Sarah’s statement and how she feels about it more than a decade later.
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Brett. This is Paris. Hey guys, I wasn't going to
record today, but I got a text from my friend.
And that's what I love about these pod posts is
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that I can just say what's on my mind whenever
I like. And I felt like this was something important
that I needed to come in UM talk about today,
So here we go. UM. So I just got this
text and it was to an article UM with Sarah
Silverman apologizing to me. And I was just shocked when
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I read it at first, and um pleasantly surprised and uh.
And then I went and listened to her podcast and
she basically made like an eight and a half minute
apology to me, and she was so genuine and so sweet,
and uh, it really moved me. I felt just emotional
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hearing it, and I could tell that she really did
mean what she said when she was apologizing. So I'm
gonna play a little clip here of what she said
on her podcast about it. The crowd went bananas. And
while I was, you know, thrilled at the success of
my monologue, I remember spotting her in the audience, I
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really do, and I remember seeing that look on her
face and my heart sank because there was a person
under there, and a couple of days later, I wrote
her a letter apologizing I felt awful and I just
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wanna just leave a message to her and say something back.
Thank you. I really really appreciate you doing that. I
know it's difficult for anyone, you know, to apologize, and
for someone to do that really means a lot. All Right,
I'm actually going to read some of the quotes from
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what she said from this article. Earlier this week, Hilton
called out Silverman's comedy on her This Is Paris podcast,
saying her joke at the time was so disgusting and
so cruel and mean. During the show, which was filmed
the night Hilton turned herself into jail to serve time
for probation violation, Silverman cracked the joke. I don't even
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want to repeat it. Um. Both Paris and her sister
Nikki said the joke like that wouldn't fly now, and Silverman,
on her own podcast today agreed wholeheartedly. I'm going to
talk about Paris Hilton. Paris Hilton, on her latest podcast,
calls me out for jokes I did about her when
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I hosted the two thousand seven MTV Movie Awards. Here
we Go you know, as she said herself on the podcast,
this would never happen today, and she's right, I wouldn't.
I would never do those jokes today. I've actually dedicated
the past several years trying to do comedy that attempts
to marry hard hitting jokes with actual heart. Back then,
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the consensus seemed to be that was not possible, and
I fully accepted that. I came up in a time
when talk show hosts and comedians were hired to make
fun of pop culture. We were roasting the biggest celebrities
and pop culture icons at the time, and nobody was
bigger than Paris Hilton. So here we are in an
awakened world, and I am totally into it. It's how
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we grow, it's how we change. I'm super down with
reflecting on the past and my part in perpetuating real
ugly and yes, we can continue to litigate the past,
but I do believe that maybe that should be coupled
with taking an account any growth that has come with
those passing years. Silverman admitted she has a lot to
be sorry for about her past comedy, and she promised
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to apologize for anything she genuinely felt bad about. This
was one of those times. I have lived too long
to have not poked up a lot and publicly. She added,
I bet even Paris Hilton could maybe relate to that.
Who can't relate to that? She then looked back at
the night itself, setting up the scene for anyone who
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maybe didn't remember what had happened nearly fifteen years ago.
Silverman explained she didn't know Hilton would be in the
audience and had no idea Paris would be going straight
to jail from the event. She admitted her joke was
not nice, not nice at all. Silverman said it bummed
her out learning that Hilton never got the letter, because
I really meant it. She added, I regretted the jokes
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not years later, but kind of immediately. Here I am,
fourteen years later telling you Paris that I am really
sorry I was then and I am now much more
completely and with are more understanding. I can't imagine what
you're going through At the time, she continued, my understanding
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of humanity through the lens of my work as a
comedian had not yet emerged, and I'm sorry I hurt you.
Comedy is not evergreen. We can't change the past, so
it's crucial is that we change with the times. She
added that she hoped Hilton would accept her apology and
felt to remorse. I felt it the second I saw
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your face that night, she said. It feels terrible to
know that you have hurt someone and it's important to
make it right. I hope this does that. So, as
I said, I was not expecting an apology. I wasn't
asking for one. That was just my sister, you know,
being very overretective and wanting an apology. So, um, yeah,
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I was very shocked when I got it, and I
really just appreciate it so much. And I'm glad that
her comedy has grown and she realizes that it's not
nice to make fun of people, and um, I think
everyone learns that in life. And Sarah is hilarious. Like
I've listened to her comedy, I've always been a big
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fan well before that moment, and um, I always just
thought she was so funny, but not when she's making
fun of people. I think she's just funny when she's
just being her funny self. Um. So I'm it's nice
to hear that she's had a lot of time to
reflect on that as well on you know, not just
my situation with her, but other situations. It seemed like,
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just from listening to her podcast right now about it
that she sees and she's really grown as a person,
just like we all do. And I know where she's
coming from because just like everyone, you know, we've all
said things in our past that you know, we felt
bad about, we later regretted and just I don't know,
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I think everyone is guilty of doing that. So it's
it's human nature, but it's important that people can learn
from their mistakes and what they've said. And just just
hearing that, just the way she was speaking, it was
just so genuine and sweet. And I'm so used to
just hearing her be funny and make her jokes, so
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to hear that kind of vulnerable side to her and
showing that she has a heart, and um, I got
a little tear eyed actually listening at the part when
she said that I know she was at the MTV Awards, um,
you know, saying the joke about me, And then she
said that she saw me in the audience and just
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the look on my face and it said her heart dropped,
and that made me. I don't know, I got a
little emotional because I was like, that's that's actually really
sweet because I didn't I didn't know because when she
was up there, it just didn't seem that way. But obviously,
when you're up there doing a comedy sketch, it's not
like you're gonna be how you truly feel inside sometimes times,
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and um, yeah, I just really really I want to
thank you for saying that to me. And also I
never got the letter you wrote to me. Um, I
was just listening when you said that you sent me
a letter a couple of days later. I don't know
who you gave it too, So I'm curious who did
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not pass me on that letter, because I would have
loved to have read it, you know, many years ago,
because you know, that night at the MTV Awards has
haunted me for a very long time. So um, yeah,
apologies are never late, so it's it's okay. But yeah,
I do wish that, um, whoever you gave it to,
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did give it to me, because that would have just,
I don't know, meant a lot back then, especially back
then when I was going through so much. Again, Sarah,
thank you so much for your apology. Means so much
to me, and we can start a clean Fresh Slate.
Thank you and I hope you guys enjoyed listening and
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stay tuned for the next episode of This Is Paris
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