Paris Hilton might be an heiress and a businesswoman in her own right but she has spent two decades of harbouring a secret that she has finally revealed in her YouTube documentary This is Paris. She has revealed the trauma that she has never publicly discussed, something that seeped into her subconscious and gave her nightmares ever since she was 16.
In an interview with a portal, Paris said, “I was having really severe nightmares. I’ve had them since I was 16.” The recurring dream was that Paris was being abducted from her bedroom in the midlle of the night by strangers. Paris claims in the new documentary that the abduction dreams actually happened to her. Years ago, when her parents were fed up of her rebellious ways, they sent her to Utah’s Provo Canyon School. Paris said that her parents feared that she would flee the house if she came to know of being enrolled at the school and hence, let Provo’s employees take her in the middle of the night from her bedroom.
Paris claims that what happened at Provo was even worse as the staff inflicted ‘verbal, mental, emotional, and physical abuse on her—even punishing her with up to 20 hours of solitary confinement.’ Officials at Provo school had responded to the claims recently by explaining that it came under different ownership in 2000, “We therefore cannot comment on the operations or patient experience prior to this time.”
Paris revealed a lot of what went at Provo in the film and says, “You’re sitting on a chair staring at a wall all day long, getting yelled at or hit. I felt like a lot of the people who worked there got off on torturing children and seeing them naked. They would prescribe everyone all these pills. I didn’t know what they were giving me. I would just feel so tired and numb. Some people in that place were just gone, like the lights are on, no one’s home. A lot of people were on suicide watch, and I was so scared that was going to happen to me. Eventually I found out a way to not take the pills. But everyone would tell on everyone, and they found a Kleenex with all of the pills in it. I got into so much trouble for that. Solitary confinement, like something out of ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.’ They’d make people take their clothes off and go in there for 20 hours. It felt like I was going crazy. Someone was in the other room that was in a straitjacket screaming. I was just freezing, I was starving. I was alone, and I was scared.”
Paris said that she was so plagued by this traumatic experience that she caricatured herself into a persona and has had lifelong trust issues. She says she couldn’t tell her parents about the abuse for fear of being punished. She alleges that the school’s staff told her, “We’re just going to tell your parents you’re a liar and they’re not going to believe you.” This is Paris is going to premiere on YouTube on September 14.
(Source: Variety/Today.com/YouTube)
