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From Sky News

Paris Hilton says she has found God and plans to "do things differently" when she is freed from prison.
The hotel heiress said she was no longer a "superficial girl" and realised that acting dumb was "no longer cute".

Hilton's police mugshotIn a phone interview from jail in Los Angeles, Hilton said it did not matter that she was not allowed to wear makeup, adding: "I haven't looked in the mirror since I got here."

The US socialite was sent back to Lynwood prison last Friday after being freed on medical grounds.

The judge in her driving ban case overruled a decision by the local sheriff that she could serve out the rest of her 45-day sentence at home.

Hilton denied she had been wailing and sobbing in jail, adding: "I'm not the same person I was. I used to act dumb.

"It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. Now, I would like to make a difference. God has given me this new chance."

She admitted to ABC News' Barbara Walters that when she first went to jail she was not eating or sleeping, was severely depressed and felt she was in a cage.

Now she says: "I'm hanging in there. I feel as if I'm a different person. I've dropped my appeal. I don't want to cause any more problems."

Hilton said she would like to help in the fields of breast cancer, which her grandmother suffered from, or multiple sclerosis - a disease which affects her father's mother.

She said a "spiritual adviser" told her that her spirit or soul did not like the way she was being seen, and that is why she was sent to prison.

Hilton was jailed for violating probation in a drink-related reckless driving case.

On Sunday, her sister Nicky and ex-boyfriend Stavros Niarchos visited her at the maximum-security detention centre. Nicky said: "She's being strong."