Paris Hilton cancelled a slew of media appearances following a contentious stint on The View where the hosts criticized her intentions for doing her new show, The World According to Paris, but her assistant (who appears on the show), Lexie Dreyfus, is coming to her defense.

“She was being real,” Lexie explained to RadarOnline.com. “That is who she is. She’s being real. Don’t bust her butt for really being real. Wouldn’t you say it sucked if you had to do community service at 8 in the morning? Even if you had to do it if you did something wrong?”

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Lexie, a family friend of the Hilton’s who sandwiched managing Paris’ busy schedule between a career writing adult entertainment screenplays and recording an album she says sounds like “Adele meets Amy Winehouse,” gushed about her experience with P (her affectionate nickname for her boss), explaining what a fan she is of the socialite.