PARIS Hilton has blasted "cruel" host David Letterman for being "very mean" and "trying to humiliate her" when she appeared on his show in 2007.
During an episode of her podcast "This Is Paris " on Monday, Paris, 40, revealed how she empathized with the "Framing Britney Spears" documentary before addressing her Letterman experience.
The heiress and businesswoman recalled how his public relations team reached out several times to try and get her on the show but she "kept saying no" until agreeing to come on to promote her new fragrance.
He promised not to bring up her 45-day stint behind bars in 2007 for alcohol-related reckless driving in which she violated her probation but it dominated their now infamous chat.
"Have your friends treated you differently now that you're out of the slammer?" Letterman asked an uncomfortable looking Paris at one point during the awkward 8.45-minute interview.
"People think I'm really strong for getting through it," she replied. "But I've moved on with my life so I don't really want to talk about it anymore."
"This is where you and I are different: it's all I want to talk about," Letterman shoots back. Paris said she felt extremely ill-at-ease during the interview.
"There was not supposed to be one question, and then he just kept pushing me and pushing me and I was just getting so uncomfortable, and I was so upset," she said on the podcast.
"It was like he was just purposely trying to humiliate me," Paris added, revealing that she'd pleaded with him to stop during the commercial breaks.
She continued: "It was just very cruel and very mean. After it ended, I just looked at him, and I said, 'I am never coming on this show again. You've crossed the line.'
"I didn’t tell him off because I’m not that type of person, but I got angry," Paris added. "There's no way that would happen today. It's such a different world now."
However, Paris said she eventually forgave Letterman and her next appearance on the program was "much better" as she noted "I think he felt bad."
Paris also took aim at comedienne Sarah Silverman, who was recently called out for describing Britney's kids "mistakes" during her 2007 routine at the MTV Video Music Awards – and they haven't spoken since.
The Simple Life alum slammed Sarah for the disgusting" NSFW skit she did about her jail time during the same ceremony.
Paris raged: "To sit in the audience with her just publicly humiliating me, being so mean, so cruel, I was sitting there wanting to die.
"I was trying to hold back my tears so hard. I had tears welling up in my eyes. I literally wanted to run out of the entire room, but I was trying to be strong."
"It was so painful, especially what I was going through in my life, to then have someone be so mean about it was really hard."
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