US reality star and model Paris Hilton (41) says she was sexually abused as a student at a boarding school. At around 3 or 4 a.m., male staff at the Provo Canyon, Utah, school walked into her room and took her and other girls for alleged medical exams. Hilton said so in a video from the New York Times Tuesday, in which other people also shared their experiences in similar therapeutic facilities for young people.
According to the New York Times, Hilton had these experiences in the 1990s when her parents sent her to therapeutic boarding school. In February 2021, she spoke about the psychological and physical abuse she experienced in private school during a Utah Senate hearing. But their latest descriptions go beyond that: “Then they put us on tables and put their fingers in us,” Hilton said in the video, visibly shocked and close to tears in a few moments. “It definitely wasn’t a doctor.”
She’s suppressed it for years, but it keeps coming back: “And now, looking back as an adult, it was definitely sexual abuse.” Hilton has been fighting for the Utah school to be closed for a long time. She was also physically and mentally abused there.
Hilton: Childhood was stolen from her
Hilton also wrote about these experiences on her Twitter account. She was deprived of sleep and pumped full of medication and didn’t understand what was going on. When she was forced to spread her legs on a padded table for a cervical exam, she cried, screamed and said “no.” “They just said: Shut up!”
Her childhood was stolen from her, Hilton continued. It breaks her that this is still happening to innocent children.