Paris Hilton has made stirring claims about her personal life and revealed that she was a victim of sexual assault as a child while studying at a Utah boarding school. The American socialite alleged that teachers at Provo Canyon School in Utah coerced her and other female students into undergoing "cervical examinations."
Recalling her ordeal of the life-altering experiences in a video interview with New York Times, she claimed "Very late at night – this would be around 3 or 4 in the morning – they would take myself and other girls into this room, and they would perform medical exams. This wasn't even with a doctor. It was with a couple of different staff members, where they would have us lay on the table and put their fingers inside of us. And I don't know what they were doing, but it was definitely not a doctor." ALSO READ | Halloween 2020: Paris Hilton Shows Off Sexy Costume Ideas, Dresses Up As Dorothy, Playboy Bunny And More – WATCH
Choking on her tears, Hilary shared that it was a scary experience and it's something that she really had blocked out for many years. She continued, "But it's coming back all the time now, and I think about it. And now, looking back as an adult, that was definitely sexual abuse."
I opened up in a @NYTimes video about something I’ve never discussed before. At Provo Canyon School, I was woken up in the middle of the night by male staff who ushered me into a private room and performed cervical exams on me in the middle of the night. https://t.co/mWxF8Pvmaw
— ParisHilton (@ParisHilton) October 11, 2022
Hilton also stated that she was "forced to lie on a padded table," spread her legs, and submit to a cervical exam. Sharing the video, she wrote, “I cried while they held me down & said, ‘No!’ They just said, ‘Shut up. Be quiet. Stop struggling or you’ll go to Obs,'” Hilton added, “It’s important to open up about these painful moments so I can heal & help put an end to this abuse.”
Paris Hilton also maintained that Provo Canyon School should to be closed. She went as far as to join a petition on change.org requesting the school to be shut down. The petition was signed by more than 300,000 people, demanding that the boarding school
As of Tuesday, around 300,000 people had signed the petition calling for the boarding school in Utah to be shut down.
This is not the first time Hilton has opened up about her experiences while she was a student at the controversial boarding school. In the past she has also spoke about supporting efforts to improve the kinds of institutions that she herself attended.
Paris was initiated in boarding school at the age of 16. Hilton's parents Rick and Kathy Hilton sent her to a boarding school in Utah due to her rebellious nature. She remained there for a total of eleven months before being brought home.
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