Paris Hilton Shares Her Sexual Abuse Story Amid Fight to Shut Down Provo School in Utah

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Paris Hilton Gets Candid About Abuse successful Therapy Session

Content warning: This communicative contains discusses intersexual abuse.
 
Paris Hilton is opening up astir a harrowing clip successful her life.
 
The TV personality, 41, precocious sat down for an interrogation with the New York Times, successful which she discussed the alleged maltreatment she suffered arsenic a teen portion staying astatine the Provo Canyon School successful Utah. Along with the article, successful a bid of statements shared to Twitter, Hilton recalled the details of her experience.
 
"At Provo Canyon School, I was woken up successful the mediate of the nighttime by antheral unit who ushered maine into a backstage country and performed cervical exams connected maine successful the mediate of the night," she wrote connected Twitter Oct. 11. "Sleep-deprived & heavy medicated, I didn't recognize what was happening. I was forced to prevarication connected a padded table, dispersed my legs & taxable to cervical exams."
 
"I cried portion they held maine down & said, ‘No!'" she continued. "They conscionable said, ‘Shut up. Be quiet. Stop struggling oregon you'll spell to Obs.'"

Hilton besides shared that she doesn't deliberation her alleged maltreatment was an isolated incident.
 
"This was a recurring acquisition not lone for maine but for different #survivors," she added. "I was violated & I americium crying arsenic I benignant this due to the fact that nary one, particularly a child, should beryllium sexually abused. My puerility was stolen from maine & it kills maine this is inactive happening to different guiltless children."

I opened up successful a @NYTimes video astir thing I’ve ne'er discussed before. At Provo Canyon School, I was woken up successful the mediate of the nighttime by antheral unit who ushered maine into a backstage country and performed cervical exams connected maine successful the mediate of the night. https://t.co/mWxF8Pvmaw

— ParisHilton (@ParisHilton) October 11, 2022

The Simple Life alum noted the value of sharing her communicative with others, adding, "It's important to unfastened up astir these achy moments truthful I tin heal & assistance enactment an extremity to this abuse. Watch the @NYTimes video that shares my communicative & profoundly disturbing accusation astir Provo Canyon School's owners Universal Health Services."
 
E! News has reached retired to Universal Health Services for remark and has not heard back.

In a connection shared to E! News, the Provo Canyon School said that the boarding schoolhouse "was sold by its erstwhile ownership successful August 2000."

"What we tin accidental is that the schoolhouse provides a structured situation teaching life-skills, providing behavioral wellness therapy, and continuing acquisition for younker who travel to america with pre-existing and analyzable emotional, behavioral and psychiatric needs," the connection read. "These younker person not been palmy successful emblematic location and schoolhouse environments, and successful galore cases person a past of engaging successful unsafe behaviors specified arsenic self-harming and/or attempting suicide, carnal unit and/or aggression toward others, and usage of illicit substances."

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Added the school, "While we admit determination are individuals implicit the galore years who judge they were not helped by the program, we are heartened by the galore stories erstwhile residents stock astir however their enactment was a pivot constituent successful improving—and successful galore cases, saving—their lives.

In March 2021, Hilton also testified astir the alleged abuse she suffered astatine the boarding schoolhouse successful a Utah courtroom. Her grounds was successful enactment of a measure focused connected ending maltreatment successful the state's congregate attraction facilities.

"I needed this measure erstwhile I was successful residential attraction and I americium honored to enactment the thousands of younker who present person greater protections," she said astatine the time. "This is lone the beginning—I program to attack the national arena with a measure that volition support younker crossed the federation successful these types of facilities."

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