By ninemsn staff
Now that Paris Hilton is back in jail for the long haul, she will be forced to do the thing she fears most in prison — use the toilet.
During her first three-day stint behind bars, Hilton was reportedly so worried guards would photograph her on the toilet that she refused to eat or drink anything.
The diet left the hotel heiress seriously ill, and prompted prison officials to send her home to serve the rest of the sentence in house arrest.
But the prison break was overruled by an LA Court at the weekend, and now Hilton is once again facing the horror of using the stainless steel lavatory — situated in plain view of prison guards.
"She was absolutely terrified that one of the guards or staffers would get her with the cell-phone cam and it would wind up on the Internet," a source told the NY Daily News yesterday.
"She didn't eat or drink a single thing for three days because she didn't want to use the toilet. She was in real danger."
The insider also said that Hilton was battling "extreme claustrophobia" in the 12-foot-by-8-foot cell.
"She cried the entire time, and that wasn't helping the dehydration."
Hilton is believed to have been placed on suicide watch in the medical ward of an LA prison, after she was ordered to return to jail and serve her full 45-day sentence.
LA County Sherriff Lee Baca said she would be watched closely to make sure "there isn't anything harmful done to herself by herself, which is a great concern to me."
Yesterday TMZ.com reported that she had not eaten or slept since arriving at the medical ward and is being given psychoactive drugs.
Nevertheless, the socialite and hotel heiress said she had told her lawyers not to appeal the order that sent her back to jail.
"Being in jail is by far the hardest thing I have ever done," Hilton said in a written statement issued by her lawyer, Richard Hutton.
"During the past several days, I have had a lot of time to think and I believe that I am learning and growing from this experience."
She thanked her fans for their good wishes and said she missed her family.
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