Paris Hilton's allegation that she was abused at a boarding school is not new. Now, however, the 41-year-old speaks explicitly of sexual abuse for the first time. Several men had passed her and other classmates.
Paris Hilton has renewed allegations of abuse against a boarding school she attended for about a year in the late 1990s. The 41-year-old first made the allegations against the Provo Canyon School in Utah in September 2020 in her YouTube documentary "This Is Paris". In February 2021, she also testified against the facility in court.
Hilton previously said she was emotionally, physically and psychologically abused by school staff as a teenager. In a video for the "New York Times" and in several tweets, she is now more specific.
She comments on something "I've never talked about before," Hilton wrote on Twitter, and for the first time explicitly accused school staff of sexual abuse. "At Provo Canyon School, I was woken up in the middle of the night by male employees who took me to a private room," Hilton said. The men carried out "examinations on me," she continues. "Since I was sleep deprived and heavily medicated, I didn't understand what was happening. I was forced to lie down on a padded table, spread my legs, and undergo an exam," explains Hilton.
"This was a recurring experience not only for me but for other survivors as well," Hilton said. "I was hurt and I cry as I write this because no one, especially a child, should be subjected to sexual abuse. My childhood was stolen from me and it breaks me that this is still happening to other innocent children." For her it is "important to talk about these painful moments so that I can heal and help put an end to this abuse".
In an Instagram post, Hilton also called on Universal Health Services (UHS), which owns the facility, to "close Provo Canyon School by April 1, 2023." Among other things, she shared several photos showing her at a demonstration against institutional child abuse.
