Paris Hilton called Barbara Walters collect on Sunday. She found out her mother Kathy was talking to Babs so she just decided to call Walters herself. Paris is saying all the right things and does in fact sound like a completely different person. Here are some excerpts from the interview. You can read the entire article by Walters here.

Paris answered, “I’m hanging in there.” But she declared, “I feel as if I’m a different person. I’ve dropped my appeal. I don’t want to cause any more problems.”

“I’m not the same person I was,” she said. “I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.

I have been thinking that I want to do different things when I am out of here. I have become much more spiritual. God has given me this new chance.”

I asked what kinds of things she might want to do.

She said she would like to help in the fields of breast cancer — her grandmother had breast cancer — or multiple sclerosis. Her father’s mother suffers from that disease.

She has had a person whom she described as a spiritual adviser who said, “My spirit or soul did not like the way I was being seen and that is why I was sent to jail.”

“God,” she said, “has released me.”

She is not allowed makeup. She said that her skin was very dry and that she was not allowed cream.

“It doesn’t matter,” she said, “I’m not that superficial girl. I haven’t looked in the mirror since I got here.”

Well I must say I am impressed. I hope she can remember all of the things she is saying now once she is released and the craziness of Hollywood and fame latches itself around her once again.