In March of last year, Paris Hilton released a memoir, along with which she gave particularly revealing interviews in which she said that in her youth she experienced rape, sexual harassment and an abnormal relationship with a teacher when she was only 14 years old. Now she says that when she was 16 her parents sent her to a boarding school, where she experienced shocking abuse.
Now, as part of Paris’s activity in order to promote legislation that would protect teenagers in boarding schools, she testified before the American Congress about the mental and physical abuse she went through at the “Provo” boarding school where she attended as a girl. “I know from personal experience the damage caused by being in treatment facilities for teenagers,” said the 43-year-old Ferris in her opening statement to Congress in Washington yesterday (Wednesday).
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Hilton said that when she was only 16 years old she was “pulled” from her bed and transferred to the Provo School in Utah in the United States, where she was taken to rehabilitate following her rebellious behavior. “These programs promised healing, growth and support, but instead I was not allowed to speak, move freely or even look out the window for two years,” she explained. Hilton also claimed: “Medication was forced on me and people from the staff sexually abused me,” she said before revealing more traumatic details. “They would violently restrain me and drag me through the corridors, I was stripped and thrown into solitary confinement,” she added.
Unlike in the past, Hilton did not blame her parents for sending her to boarding school and said they were deceived and manipulated. Paris, who is a mother of two already, also spoke about adopted youth, and that these children do not have parents who check what is going on with them in these settings. “As a mother, these stories break my heart,” she said. “The treatment these children have been forced to endure is criminal. I will not stop until America’s youth are safe.”