STEPPIN OUT TALKS WITH PARIS HILTON

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In this weeks Steppin Out magazine, Paris Hilton sits down with celebrity journalist Chaunce Hayden and shares how she really feels about the gossip columns, the rumors, being lonely, Britney Spears, her inheritance, South Park and falling in love.

PARIS HILTON ON THE GOSSIP COLUMNS:

I don't pay attention when people write mean things. It's always a bunch of lies. Like what was written about me this weekend. It's just another crazy story. In fact, my assistant has the whole thing at the 50 cent concert on video. He pulled me on stage just to say happy birthday. He was just being nice and friendly. I've known 50 Cent for six years. He would never speak to me that way. That was just Page Six making up another lie like they always do. Sources call the tabloids because they want to make money, but they never check their sources. They just continually write untrue things.But I won't sue them or demand a retraction because there's no point putting that much energy into it.

ON ELISHA CUTHBERT:

The gossip columns also lied about Elisha [Cuthbert]. They wrote that we were kissing in a bar, but that wasn't true at all! She's one of my best friends. That just didn't happen. That's just another person trying to make money by selling a fake story. It's just ridicules. But that's the day and age we live in. Everyone is blogging about other people. They need gossip every 30 seconds. So they have to make things up to keep it interesting.

ON MISCONCEPTIONS:

People don't realize that I'm a human being and that I'm sensitive. I have feelings. A lot of people think that I don't work when I actually do work. I run a huge business. People only see the party side of my life. But what they don't realize is that that's work as well. I'm getting paid to be at these parties.

ON HER INHERITANCE:

When it comes to my grandfather's inheritance, people don't realize the full story. I'm already very well taken care of. I also make a lot of money on my own. I think it's silly for anyone to try and take something negative from that story. What my grandfather did was an incredible thing. There should be more people in the world like him. He's going to be helping a lot of people. I really commend him. I think it's amazing that he is so generous.

ON DEALING WITH FAME AND BRITNEY SPEARS:

My situation was completely different then Britney Spears, so I can't really relate what she's going through. But I do know what she's going through when it comes to the paparazzi. It can be really hard when it gets to be on that level. I just don't let it get to me. If you let it get to you it will drive you crazy. I've been dealing with it since I was 16 years old. I'm used to it. I know that they're doing their job. But it's still very annoying. I feel that there's a time and place for it. They shouldn't be at your house. They do cross the line. But I just live my life and try not to pay attention. I won't let them take over my life.

ON HOW SHE'LL BE REMEMBERED:

I don't want to say I'll be remembered as a pop icon. But I guess I will be. At least that's what they tell me. I don't know.

ON SOUTH PARK:

I never saw the South Park episode where they make fun of me. I don't have time for it. I have more important things going on in my life. I just don't pay attention to it. People are always doing silly things about me. I just ignore it because they don't know who I am.

ON FALLING IN LOVE:

I would love to fall in love one day. But I doubt I'll find anyone in this town (Los Angeles]. Besides, I'm way to busy right now. I'm traveling around the world and promoting my movie and my other projects so I just don't have time for a relationship. But within the next couple of years I would love to get married and have kids. I have a lot of lonely moments. I'm a human being and I get sad sometimes. But I also have so much good stuff going on that I try to forget the bad.

ON TRUSTING PEOPLE:

It's very difficult for me to trust anybody. And if I do go out with somebody just once, the media will catch on to it and make up a million stories and stress out the whole relationship. So if I ever do find something I'll do my best to hide them from the media because they always ruin everything right away. It's really sad. But I have good friends and a good family who love me and that helps.