In February of last year Paris Hilton (43 years old) spoke for the first time about the sexual abuse she suffered when she was 15 years old. During an interview with ‘Glamour’ magazine, the multimillionaire revealed that she and her friends met some men older than her. … Paris was a young girl at the mall and one day invited them over to her house. When they arrived, one of them seemed particularly keen on getting her to drink the wine they were offered. “I wasn’t a drinker at the time or anything, so when I took a sip or two, I started to feel dizzy and lightheaded. I don’t know what he put in there, I assume it was a ‘roofie’,” Paris recalled.
The hotel chain heiress woke up a few hours later and was able to remember what happened after she lost consciousness. “I have visions of him on top of me, covering my mouth, saying, ‘You’re dreaming, you’re dreaming,’ and whispering that in my ear,” the influencer confessed, revealing that it was her first sexual experience.
Paris Hilton was on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday to speak out about the welfare of children and young people in the United States who live in the custody of the state or legal guardians. The television star called for greater federal oversight of youth care programs, while describing her traumatic experience in such centers.
The great-granddaughter of the founder of Hilton Hotels, Conrad Hiltonhas spoken publicly about the physical and emotional abuse she suffered while placed in residential youth treatment facilities as a teenager.
Trauma
In testimony to the committee, she described being taken from her bed in the middle of the night when she was 16 and transported across state lines to a residential facility where she experienced physical and sexual abuse. “This $23 billion industry views this population (of vulnerable children) as dollar signs and operates without meaningful oversight,” she said. “There’s no education in these places, there’s mold and blood on the walls,” she added in response to lawmakers’ questions. “It’s horrific how these places are. They’re worse than some dog kennels.” Hilton said that in recent years they have focused on maximizing profits, leading them to hire unskilled workers. “They care more about profits than the safety of the children,” she said.
She also described the experience that she says left her with post-traumatic stress disorder from which she continues to suffer, in 2021, and has been a strong advocate for greater oversight of the system. “These programs promised ‘healing, growth and support,’ but instead they did not allow me to speak, move freely or even look out a window for two years,” she Hilton told the committee. “My parents were completely deceived, lied to and manipulated by this for-profit industry, so you can only imagine the experience for young people who have no one controlling them.”
