Paris Hilton's mother, Kathy, says seeing her beloved daughter behind the prison's glass partition was a traumatic experience, but that if a single life is changed by the example set by her daughter she would think it was "worth it." In a recent interview with People magazine, the 48-year-old socialite revealed how hard it was to see the prison guards carrying her daughter away at the end of the visit and the words "L.A. County" printed on the back of Paris's jail jumpsuit.
Kathy said the ordeal of the prison term was visible on her daughter's face and body in the form of rashes she apparently got from "very thin sheets and one pillow and one little thin blanket," that she was provided with while in jail.
However, Kathy said the most distressing situation was when Paris was briefly freed from jail and the family was driving her back home.
"We were surrounded," Hilton recalled to People. "There were six helicopters and a pink Hummer advertising bail bonds. We could not get rid of it. It was actually very clever marketing. But we could barely see. They were shining all these lights."
The "Simple Life" star spent 23 days at the Century Regional Detention Center after violating her probation following a 2006 drink-driving arrest.
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