‘My childhood was stolen from me’: Paris Hilton claims she was sexually abused at Utah boarding school for troubled teens as tearful star says she wants to ‘protect other innocent kids’
- The reality star, 41, said her childhood was ‘stolen’ by the alleged abuse at Provo Canyon School where she spent 11 months aged 17
- Paris claims while at the school, she was forced to submit to cervical exams in the early hours of the morning
- She said: ‘I don’t know what they were doing, but it was definitely not a doctor and it was really scary’
- The teen treatment center, where a 12-month stay costs up to $300,000, has faced previous accusations of beating, drugging and sexually abusing its clients
- In 2021 Paris told Utah lawmakers how children were ‘restrained, thrown into walls, strangled, and sexually abused regularly’ during her 11 month stay
- If you have been affected by this story, in the US contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline on 800-656-4673 or visit www.rainn.org
- In the UK contact, Rape Crisis on 0808 802 9999 on contact the service using their online chat function
Paris Hilton has detailed alleged sexual abuse she endured while attending a Utah boarding school for troubled teens in the 1990s.
The reality star, 41, said her childhood was ‘stolen’ by the alleged abuse at Provo Canyon School where she spent 11 months aged 17 – with Paris claiming she was left violated after being forced to submit to cervical exams.
Speaking to the New York Times, Paris, who has campaigned to regulate ‘troubled teen centers’ since initially going public with alleged physical and mental abuse in at the school 2020, said she had tried to ‘black out’ the reported incidents.
Devastating: Paris Hilton has detailed alleged sexual abuse she endured while attending a Utah boarding school for troubled teens in the 1990s
She said: ‘Very late at night – this would be around three or four in the morning – they would take myself and other girls into this room, and they would perform medical exams.
‘This wasn’t even with a doctor. It was with a couple different staff members, where they would have us lay on the table and put their fingers inside of us. And I don’t know what they were doing, but it was definitely not a doctor and it was really scary
‘It was really scary, and it’s something that I really had blocked out for many years. But it’s coming back all the time now, and I think about it. And now, looking back as an adult, that was definitely sexual abuse.’
Tragic: The reality star, 41, said her childhood was ‘stolen’ by the alleged abuse at Provo Canyon School where she spent 11 months aged 17 (pictured aged 18 after attending the school)
Paris further detailed the alleged incidents on Twitter, writing: ‘Sleep-deprived & heavily medicated, I didn’t understand what was happening.
‘I was forced to lie on a padded table, spread my legs & submit to cervical exams. I cried while they held me down & said,”No!” They just said, “Shut up. Be quiet. Stop struggling or you’ll go to Obs.”‘
‘It’s important to open up about these painful moments so I can heal & help put an end to this abuse.
Campaign: Paris has campaigned for the school’s closure since 2020
‘This was a recurring experience not only for me but for other #survivors. I was violated & I am crying as I type this because no one, especially a child, should be sexually abused. My childhood was stolen from me & it kills me this is still happening to other innocent children.’
Paris appeared alongside other young people who had been sent to similar centers as teenagers, in a series titled: ‘Can You Punish A Child’s Mental Health Problems Away?
DailyMail.com has contacted representatives for the school for comment.
The teen treatment center, where a 12-month stay costs up to $300,000, has faced previous accusations of beating, drugging and sexually abusing its clients.
The socialite first slammed the institution in her 2020 documentary This Is Paris and succeeded in pushing for new, tighter regulation on schools for troubled teens.
Testifying to Utah lawmakers in February 2021, the hotel heiress said she was ‘verbally, mentally and physically abused on a daily basis’ at Provo Canyon.
Twitter: The star gave further details of the alleged abuse in a Twitter thread
‘I was cut off from the outside world and stripped of all of my human rights. I was not allowed to be myself, hold my own opinions or even speak. Without a diagnosis I was forced to consume medication that made me feel numb and exhausted. I didn’t breathe fresh air or see the sunlight for 11 months,’ she said.
‘Children were restrained, hit, thrown into walls, strangled and sexually abused regularly at Provo… I could not report this because all communication with my family was monitored and censored.
‘That was the worst of the worst… There’s no getting out of there. You’re sitting on a chair and staring at a wall all day long, getting yelled at or getting hit.’
The socialite slammed the institution in her 2020 documentary This Is Paris and succeeded in pushing for new, tighter regulation on schools for troubled teens.
The Times claims the school still faces numerous lawsuits, with one suit, in which 49 plaintiffs are named, more than two dozen people have claimed to have been sexually abused by a former a medical director.
The teen treatment center, where a 12-month stay costs up to $300,000, has faced previous accusations of beating, drugging and sexually abusing its clients
Paris has campaigned for the school’s closure since going public with her allegations.
In August 2021, the school was sued over the alleged ‘torture’ and ‘sexual abuse’ of another student.
Aaron Ross was 13 when he was sent to Provo Canyon School in Utah in 2001, where he claims a staff member forced him to perform oral sex on them a dozen times under threat of starvation, locked him in solitary confinement for weeks, and made him sit for weeks at a desk facing the wall.
The lawsuit accused the school of practicing ‘a myriad of maltreatment including physical, verbal and sexual abuse, chemical sedation and isolation, vigorous labor, the use of physical restraints, food and sleep deprivation and humiliation, amongst others, some of which the Geneva Convention banned as being too extreme for prisoners of war.’
It said Provo Canyon is among the ‘worst of the worst’ of allegedly abusive schools, highlighting Hilton’s campaign to tighten laws monitoring institutions for troubled teens, her alleged abuse at Provo Canyon, and hundreds of police and regulator investigations there over assaults, sex offences and child abuse since 2012.
In March 2021, the Utah Legislature approved the SB127 bill backed by Paris to enact more regulations on the state’s ‘troubled teen’ centers.
If you have been affected by this story, in the US contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline on 800-656-4673 or visit www.rainn.org
In the UK contact, Rape Crisis on 0808 802 9999 on contact the service using their online chat function.
Emotional: Hilton opened up about the alleged abuse she experienced at Provo Canyon School in her documentary released in 2020
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