Paris Hilton was on The View on Thursday. The heiress cheerfully sat down to promote the September 30 premiere of her new MTV reality series, Paris Hilton’s My New BFF. Everything was going well until the show’s resident “comedienne” Joy Behar decided to poke fun at Parasite’s Summer 2007 trip to the slammer.

That’s when things got ugly.

“You’re not going to be able to vote, are you?” Joy asked Paris pointedly. “I have a friend who was in the slammer, he can’t vote. Weren’t you in jail?”

“I can vote,” Paris replied uneasily.

Whoopi explained to Joy that losing the right to vote only applies to certain people convicted of a felony.

“What was your thing? Yours was a misdemeanor or something?” Joy persisted.

“No, it was driving with a suspended license,” Paris answered.

“You can still vote with that?”

“Yeah, you’re still an American, yeah,” Whoopi replied.