“I had panic attacks and cried every day. I was so unhappy. I felt like a prisoner and I hated life.” 23 years wasn’t enough Paris Hilton forgetting what she was living at Provo Canyon School, a correctional facility she was sent to by her parents when she was 17. Instead of being accepted into a re-education program for problem children, the heiress was mainly subjected to physical and psychological violence in this school sexual abuseas she herself denounced in a video interview with the New York Times.
The American newspaper interviewed fifty former young patients who had traumatic experiences in therapeutic structures that, instead of helping them heal and improve, subject them to punishment, harassment and violence of all kinds. “We were forced to do drugs, held under restrictions and Punish and sometimes put in solitary confinement for twenty hours a day,” said Paris Hilton, who is also a witness to the campaign against private correctional facilities.
In Utah’s Provo Canyon School, a University For troubled teenagers, the heiress was sent in 1998 for her rebellious behavior and stayed there for eleven months. A painful time she even faced sexual violence: “In the middle of the night I was woken up by male staff who let me into a private room and did cervical tests. Sleep deprived and under the influence of drugs, I didn’t understand what was going on and had to lie down on a padded table, spread my legs while they placed theirs on top of me. finger Inside. I cried when they held me and said, ‘No!’ But they said, ‘Shut up. Keep your mouth shut. Stop fighting or you go to Obs.” He later revealed, “They weren’t doctors, they were school staff.”
In 2020, the heiress told about her traumatic experience in her documentary “This is Paris”, but without naming specific episodes that she wanted to make public today instead. “This was a recurring experience not only for me but also for other survivors. I was raped and I am crying because no one, especially a child, should be sexually abused. My childhood was stolen from me and it’s killing me, and that’s still happening to other innocent children,” Paris Hilton denounced. The Provo Canyon School experience lasted eleven months until the entrepreneur turned 18 and returned home. “But I never wanted to talk about that horrific experience shame‘ admitted Hilton, who has campaigned for years to get rid of institutes like Provo Canyon School.
I opened in a @New York Times Video about something I’ve never talked about. At Provo Canyon School, I was woken up in the middle of the night by male staff who took me to a private room and performed cervical exams on me in the middle of the night. https://t.co/mWxF8Pvmaw
-ParisHilton (@ParisHilton) October 11, 2022