Six months after revealing the abuse suffered during her teenage years, Paris Hilton gave a poignant testimony on Monday, February 8, 2021, before the American justice system at the State Capitol of Utah.
In August 2020, in his documentary This is Paris, reality star Paris Hilton was breaking the silence around a trauma that marked her teenage years. At 16, the heir to the Hilton hotel empire was sent by her parents to boarding school, Provo Canyon School, a mental health clinic for adolescents. Isolated from the outside world for eleven months, Paris Hilton suffered unprecedented educational violence there: "I was verbally, mentally and physically abused on a daily basis." Monday February 8, 2021, the star decided to testify in front of American justice so that this plague ceases and save "thousands of children."
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Paris Hilton delivers a chilling testimony
Paris Hilton's testimony in the state capital of Utah reveals her deep trauma, which has been present for more than 20 years. Now 39, she says she was forced to take medication that is still unknown to this day. "Numb and exhausted", she declares to have been "cut off from the outside world" : "I was deprived of all my human rights. I had no right to be myself." According to her, at Provo Canyon School, "Children were regularly locked up, beaten, thrown against walls, strangled and sexually abused."
I have been deprived of all my human rights
Paris Hilton doesn't stop there and talks about the privacy she was denied when she was only 16: “Over the past 20 years, I have experienced a recurring nightmare where I am kidnapped in the middle of the night by two strangers, strip searched and locked in an institution. I wish I could tell you that this haunting nightmare wasn't only a dream, but it is not. (…) Every time I used the bathroom or that I took a shower, she was watched. At 16, when I was a child, I felt their piercing eyes staring at my naked body. I was just a child and felt raped every day. " If the star speaks without filter of his experience, we can only salute his courage. On the verge of tears, testifying in court considerably brings her back a trauma that eats away at her considerably.
Educational violence must stop
If Paris Hilton has decided to speak today, it is above all to break the silence around educational violence and in the hope of saving thousands of other children: “I'm telling my story not to make anyone feel bad for me, but to bring to light the reality of what happened and is still happening now. The people who work, run and fund these programs should be ashamed of themselves. How can people live with themselves knowing that this abuse is happening?She said. She also doubts that the Provo Canyon School stopped these violent and dangerous practices after her departure.
Children are our future, none deserve to be tortured and traumatized
The case of the Provo Canyon School is unfortunately not isolated. Paris Hilton is the voice of other teenagers who have experienced this ordeal, sometimes with tragic ends. She declares: "Last April, in Michigan, a child, Cornelius Fredericks, 16, and interned at Lakeside Academy, threw a sandwich at one of his comrades. He was abused for it by the school staff and died of it. " That’s why, today, Paris Hilton is calling for action so that history does not repeat itself. She speaks directly to politicians: Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Vice President Kamala Harris, and United States President Joe Biden.