Paris Hilton says she 'pretended' to vote for Donald Trump in 2016 but actually 'didn't vote at all'

• Paris Hilton said she "pretended" to vote for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
• "The truth is even worse," she wrote in her new memoir. "I didn't vote at all."

Paris Hilton has revealed that didn't actually vote for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, but only said she did because Trump was a "family friend" and owned the first modeling agency she signed with.

In her new autobiography, "Paris: The Memoir," the reality TV star and businesswoman listed several things she's "not proud of," which included lying about her voting choice seven years ago.

Reeling off a number of embarrassing mistakes from her past, she wrote: "I used to wear those horrific Von Dutch caps. I once went to a Playboy Mansion Halloween party dressed as Sexy Pocahontas. At 18, I got drunk and performed a totally inappropriate version of Snoop Dogg's 'Gin and Juice' at a party, and yes, I knew aaaallll the lyrics."

"When I was put on the spot in an interview, I pretended I voted for Donald Trump because he was an old family friend and owned the first modeling agency I signed with," Hilton continued. "And when I left to go to another agency, he was furious and intimidated the shit out of me on the phone."

Hilton was likely referencing an interview she did with the Australian news program "The Project" in the days after the 2016 presidential race had come to a close, during which she was asked whether she had voted for Trump.

She replied at the time: "I've known him since I was a little girl. So, yes."

However, as the mom-of-one wrote in her memoir, she was even more ashamed of what she actually did, which is not to vote for either Trump or his Democrat rival, Hilary Clinton.

"The truth is even worse," she wrote. "I didn't vote at all."

Hilton continued: "Am I standing by these choices? Would I make the same choices again, knowing what I know now? Of course not!"

"You make it right if you can. You apologize — in private where it counts, in public if it helps. I'm not pretending to be, like, the Dalai Lama in Louboutins here. I'm just saying, grace is available to all of us if we make it available to each other."

Hilton first admitted to lying about how she cast her vote in 2017, telling Marie Claire that she didn't vote for Trump, but thought that since he was "an incredible businessman," he would make a good president.

"He's always been so nice, so respectful and sweet," she told the publication at the time.

More recently, Hilton has publicly addressed her family ties with Trump, who picked some of the Supreme Court judges responsible for a 2022 ruling that overturned abortion rights.

Speaking to Glamour magazine last month, Hilton — who opened up about her own experience with abortion elsewhere in the memoir — reportedly "halted" the conversation when it turned to the topic of Trump and the role he played in overturning Roe v. Wade.

She interrupted the interviewer when they referred to the former president as a "close family friend" only to say "not anymore."

"Paris: The Memoir" by Paris Hilton is out now, published by HQ and available everywhere where books are sold.