Hilton said he had “brainwashed” himself into distancing his work from his personal life, and viewed Perez as “a character”.
“I regret that I thought it was OK to out celebrities,” Hilton writes in his book.
Hilton, who is gay himself, received death threats from fans when he outed Aiken, a former American Idol contestant.
I knew a lot of people didn’t like me before then, but I was living in my own little bubble.”
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