Many believe actress Jamie Lee Curtis was merely voicing what millions of other mothers were thinking in regards to Paris Hilton’s latest incarceration. (Hey, what’s one more voice in the chorus against Paris?)
Curtis recently penned an essay addressing the socialite’s scandal and took aim at Ma and Pa Hilton and their lack of parental guidance. The 48-year-old actress’ rant also slammed the parents of Paris’ other party-going, rehab attending peers (presumably, Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears).
Curtis’ essay is titled “Mom, It’s Not Right!” (which refers to Hilton’s cries to her mother, Kathy Hilton, as she was escorted back to jail last week).
“It was a painful episode to watch,” Curtis writes. “A young woman, begging her mother, the person who should have taught her right from wrong, to help her, to teach her the rules of life. It was a little too late. And so she wept as the Universe was bringing the teaching and settling the score.”
Curtis, a mother herself to daughter, Annie, 20, and son, Thomas, 11 is no stranger to growing up amid the glitz and glam of Hollywood. After all, she is the daughter of two major celebrities–Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. What’s more, at age 20, Curtis made her big screen debut in “Halloween.”
Curtis’ essay continues by blasting Hilton, Lohan, and Spears’ mothers: “I hope their mothers are worried sick and wondering, ‘What could I have done differently?’ And our culture should be asking the same question too.”
Curtis also spends quite a bit of space addressing the issue of parents today wanting to be more like peers to their children than authority figures.
She writes: We were raised by people who didn’t ‘understand’ us and now we don’t ‘understand’ why our children are so messed up.”
Curtis’ essay concludes with a couple of questions she answers herself: “Can we take the wrenching sight of Paris asking her mother, ‘why?’ and ask it of ourselves? My analyst told me this: ‘Children are paparazzi. They take your picture mentally when you don’t want them to, when you don’t look good, and show it back to you in their behavior.’ Wake up, Mothers and smell the denial.”
No word on if any of the aforementioned party princess’ (or their mothers) read Curtis’ harsh sentiments. Though, perhaps, an advance copy was sent over to Paris’ former agent. (Former being the operative word.)
Looks as though the reality TV star is going to have to find a new agent when she gets out of jail. According to news reports, the Endeavor talent agency dropped Hilton shortly after an outraged judge sent her back to jail last week. Hilton had been represented by the Beverly Hills-based agency since 2005 and while there recorded an album and tried to launch a pop-music career. Under their management she also created a namesake perfume and handbag collection.
Do you think they will miss her?
Paris Update: According to news reports, late last night, Hilton was transferred out of the medical ward at the Los Angeles County jail and sent back to the all-women’s facility where she originally began her sentence.
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