Reality star, businesswoman and heiress Paris Hilton has reflected on her 2003 sex tape scandal in a new interview, saying it remains her biggest regret in life.
Speaking to Marie Claire, the 36-year-old Simple Life star reflected on the sex tape, which she filmed with then-boyfriend Rick Salomon when she was just 18. Hilton maintains that the tape, titled One Night In Paris and sold for profit, was released without her consent - and insists she never made any money from it.
"That's one thing that really pisses me off when I hear it, because I never, ever received one dollar from that video," she tells Marie Claire. "That is the last thing that I would want out there."
A tearful Hilton, who has parlayed her reality TV fame into a wildly successful dance music career - she's the highest-paid female DJ in the world - says she felt the release of the tape irreversibly tainted her public image.
"It's really hurtful, because my whole life I really looked up to Princess Diana, all these elegant, amazing women, and I feel like [Salomon] just took that all away from me. I could have been like that, but because of that tape, I will always be judged and thought of as whatever they say about me because of a private moment between my boyfriend and me," she says.
