Following news of Mandela’s passing, a tweet surfaced from Twitter account ‘deleted tweets’, which seemed to show Paris making a massive twitter blunder.
The (fake) tweet read:
"RIP Nelson Mandela. Your 'I Have a Dream' speech was so inspiring. An amazing man."
However the 32-year-old took to Twitter to deny she had tweeted this, writing:
“I just landed off an airplane & heard the news.
“I never wrote that tweet, it is a fake. Obviously I know that speech was by MLK.
"Whoever made that stupid fake tweet lacks respect to the loss the world is mourning right now. Same goes for all the blogs who ran with it."
This followed another tweet, which read:
"Just landed & heard the sad new about Nelson Mandela. He was a true Hero & the world is a better place because of him. May he rest in peace."
According to Hilton’s publicist, she was on a flight for five hours and was not online when news of Mandela’s death broke.