Paris Hilton & Nicole Richie Discuss 'Traumatizing' Media Coverage, Recall Filming 'The Simple Life'

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Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie spoke very candidly about their experience in the public eye during an interview with Glamour.

The celebrities have been close for years and recently reunited for a new reality special called The Encore. Ahead of its premiere this month, they looked back on their original reality series The Simple Life.

They also opened up about their experience being fixtures in the media and dealing with “traumatizing” negative coverage over the years. Keep reading to find out more… About The Simple Life, Nicole said that they understood that the show “had a formula.” “They would drop us off at our jobs, they would leave, we would mess it up, they would get mad, we would laugh, we were in skirts.

It was entertainment. Both Paris and I are from LA. We understand,” she explained. Paris added that she was “definitely” playing a character. “When Nicole and I got approached to do this, they described it as Green Acres meets Clueless, so I knew what the audience wanted – that blond-airhead type of character,” she said. “So I really played into that with questions like, ‘What’s Walmart?’ I always knew what I was doing because I’m not a dumb blonde.