Paris Hilton is “obsessed” with her “fun, gorgeous, sweet, cute” friend Ashley Benson, star of Pretty Little Liars and Spring Breakers. So on this episode of This Is Paris, she and Ashley chat about everything from Framing Britney and paparazzi problems to Ashley’s favorite concert ever and her dream to live in Italy for a year. Plus, they swap stories about their biggest beauty regrets, both involving bleach: Ashley’s hair, bleached for Spring Breakers, fell out, and she had to wear a wig for an episode of Pretty Little Liars that made her “look like E.T.” Paris’s eyebrows were bleached for a runway show, making her look like “an alien with the biggest forehead ever,” and her attempts to dye it back were “beyond.”
Ashley hasn’t been idle during the quarantine; she’s written two screenplays that are moving forward with production, so as much as she loves acting, she’s excited to get more into writing and producing in the future. She’s been acting since she was nine years old – she even had her first kiss onscreen – so when Paris brings up the paparazzi, she has plenty to say. Both women felt emotional watching the Framing Britney documentary, since both have the experience of being poorly treated by the media. “That’s one thing I hate about being in this industry, you get unwanted attention,” Ashley says. And the attention is scary; she describes photographers camping out in front of her house 24/7 and nearly causing car crashes to follow her through an intersection. “It adds so much extra unnecessary stress and trauma to your life.”
Paris asks Ashley how she deals with the panic attacks she sometimes gets, and Ashley has a lot of tips about guided meditation and taking a timeout to breathe and calm down; hot yoga has helped her a lot too, even though she actually was asked to leave her first class because she and her friend couldn’t stop laughing. "I was embarrassed and....dying laughing like 'These people are so weird!'" Paris, too, was kicked out of a yoga class for texting the entire time, she reveals. Paris doesn’t seem too interested in giving yoga a whirl, but Ashley says “it’s the one thing I want to open back up again – mentally and physically, I’ve never felt better.” Plus, Ashley’s awkward first kiss, her favorite things to do when she isn’t working, her awful experience getting sick with Covid-19, and more; hear the entire real and refreshing conversation on This Is Paris.
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