She added that she had not participated for fame or profit, saying that she didn’t make any money from the video (she, Salomon and the distribution company settled out of court) and believes it had a negative impact on how she was perceived.

“It’s really hurtful, because my whole life I really looked up to Princess Diana, all these elegant, amazing women, and I feel like [Salomon] just took that all away from me,” she says. “I could have been like that, but because of that tape, I will always be judged and thought of as whatever they say about me because of a private moment between my boyfriend and me.

“I wish I had never met him. That is actually the one regret in my life. I wish that I had never met that guy.”

In 2015, she made a similar point about the impact the video had on her reputation, despite the fact she never thought it would go beyond their own relationship.

“Now when people look at me they think that I’m something I’m not just because of one incident one night with someone who I was in love with,” she said.

“People assume ‘Oh, she’s a slut’ because of one thing that happened to me and it’s hard because I’ll have to live with that for the rest of my life and explain it to my children. And it’s something that’s changed my life forever and I’ll never be able to erase it.”

Paris Hilton describes the emotional fallout of her 2001 sex tape