Paris Hilton’s “Simple Life” was really all but.
The 39-year-old reality star has opened up about her troubled youth in upcoming documentary “This Is Paris,” in which the heir reveals that she was mentally, emotionally and physically abused while attending a boarding school in Utah.
“I’ve been burying my truth for so long,” Hilton told People. ‘But I’m proud of the strong woman I’ve become. People would assume that everything in my life came easily to me, but I want to show the world who I really am. ‘
Prior to starring in the 2003 series “The Simple Life”, Hilton was a rebellious teenager living in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York with her parents, Rick and Kathy Hilton, and younger siblings Nicky, 36, Barron, 30, and Conrad, 26.
“It was so easy to sniff out and go to clubs and parties,” Hilton recalled. ‘My parents were so strict that it made me rebel. They would [punish me] by removing my mobile phone, removing my credit card but it did not work. I would still go out on my own. ”
Seeking Hilton’s violation, she was sent to several boarding schools in the late 1990s, the most recent being Utah’s Provo Canyon School, where Hilton would stay for 11 months.
“I knew it would be worse than anywhere else,” Hilton said, adding, “it would have to be a school, but [classes] were not at all the focus. From the moment I woke up until I went to bed, it cried all day in my face, screaming at me, persistent torture.
She went on, ‘The staff would say terrible things. They constantly made me feel bad about myself and bullied me. I think it was her goal to break us. And they were physically abused, beaten and strangled us. They wanted to bring fear into the children that we were too scared not to hear them. ‘
Three of Hilton’s former classmates will appear to appear in the documentary, supporting their allegations of abuse, including that they were forcibly medicated and held by restrictions as punishment.
Hilton admitted that students could be thrown into solitary confinement for as long as “20 hours a day” if staff members were informed of plans made by children to escape.
“I had panic attacks and cried every day,” she added. ‘I was just so sorry. I felt like a prisoner and I hate life. ‘
When she tried to tell her parents, it was her word against the administration.
“I didn’t really get to talk to my family, maybe once every two or three months,” Hilton revealed. ‘We were descended from the outside world. And when I once tried to tell her, I ran into so many problems that I was afraid to say it again. They would pick up the phone or call up letters I wrote, telling me, ‘No one will believe you.’ And the staff would tell the parents that the children were lying. That my parents had no idea what was happening. ”
After she turned 18 in 1999, Hilton returned to New York but refused to talk to her about her experience, explaining: ‘I was so grateful to be out there, I did not even want to bring it up again. It was just something I was ashamed of and I did not want to talk about it. ‘
“This Is Paris” premieres Sept. 14 on Hilton’s YouTube channel.
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