Paris Hilton on Larry KingParis Hilton has described her release from jail in the earlier hours of Tuesday morning as “pandemonium” but also “one of the happiest days of my life”.

Speaking in a pre-recording interview for Larry King Live last night, Paris said: “It’s hard to even describe.”

“It was so exciting. It was just pandemonium, and then as soon as I saw my mom I just ran to her to go give her a hug.”

In contrast, she called the strip-search at the start of her sentence as “the most humiliating experience of my life”: “The beginning was really hard, really hard for me, it’s a bit of a blur it was so traumatic.”

“But after being there for a while I had to accept I could either make the best of it or the worst of it, so I lived by the motto, ‘Don’t serve the time, let the time serve you”

“It was a very traumatic experience, but I feel like God does make everything happen for a reason. And it gave me a time-out in life just to really find out what was important and what I want to do and find out who I am. I have a new outlook on life.”

“I’ve been a little immature in the past and made some wrong choices. But they made me who I am today. I felt like this is a new beginning for me. There’s just so much more to me than what people think.”

“I will never make that mistake [of drink-driving] again. I take full responsibility,”

Paris claims she spent much of her time in Century Regional Detention Facility reading fan mail and the Bible but when asked by King, she couldn’t name a favourite passage. She added though that she intends to go to Mass regularly now, returning to the customs of her Catholic upbringing.