Paris Hilton’s documentary, This Is Paris, is premiering on the 14th of September on her YouTube channel. In it, Paris Hilton shares her story of abuse as a teen.

Paris Hilton wants to finally show the world who she is. She is proud that she has become a strong woman eventually. She buried her truth for so long, but now she thinks it is time for people to learn that not everything in her life came easy. 

Before she left for Provo Canyon School, she was living with her parents in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. As she says, they were strict, so she often broke their rules. She sneaked out and went to parties and clubs. In her opinion, her parents are the ones who made her rebel. They would also punish her by taking away her phone, credit card, but that didn’t work. She would still go out. 

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Paris Hilton’s parents decided to send her to boarding school

When her parents, Rick and Katie, were overwhelmed by their daughter’s behavior, they sent her to a school where the focus was on the children’s mental development. In other words, Paris was sent to correctional facilities.

The 17-year-old Paris went to several schools, but the last one, Provo Canyon School, was the worst. Paris suffered mental and physical abuse and remained there for 11 months. As she says, she knew immediately that it would be worse than anywhere else. Bullying was happening daily there. 

Paris talks about her days in the boarding school 

In this boarding school, the classes weren’t the focus. The staff was awful – they were yelling, saying terrible things, torturing, and bullying the students. Paris thinks it was their goal to break the students down. They were also physically abusive – they strangled and hit them. They must have wanted to instill fear in the students. 

Her documentary also features three of her classmates, who confirm her story. One of them reveals that they were often forcibly given drugs and even tied up. Paris wanted to run away, but when the staff found out, they put her in solitary confinement. They used solitary confinement as punishment, and they would leave the students alone for up to 20 hours a day. 

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She cried and had panic attacks every day due to the intense torture she suffered in Paris. She talked to her parents every 2-3 months. Also, the school staff took her phone and tore off the letters she had written to her parents. The staff claimed that all the children in the school were lying, so Paris’s parents did not know what was going on.

In 1999, when Paris was 18, she finally dropped out of school and returned to New York. But she was too scared and ashamed to talk about what had happened to her. We are happy that she took the courage, and now 20 years later, she will share her story.

Paris says that she does not plan to file a lawsuit against the school, but she only wants to show the public what is happening in such institutions.
Here you can watch the trailer for the documentary.