Paris Hilton today she is a 43 year old mother who has found her balance and happiness. But behind her glossy and certainly privileged life compared to that of most people – heir of Conrad, founder of the famous luxury hotel chain – there are hidden memories and experiences that have profoundly marked her. Paris was a rebellious teenager and for this reason her parents decided to take her to a youth recovery center. In the structure, however, you did not find what was promised but borderline situations that you have been reporting for years and which have led you, today, to fight for American children, protecting them from abuse.
Paris Hilton, the painful testimony about abuse
Washington DC, hall of Congress on Capitol Hill. Dressed in a light blue dress, Paris Hilton made her entrance with the usual savoir-faire that distinguishes her but with a very specific objective: to bear her painful testimony, to tell once again how much she immediately felt when she was just a little girl.
During the hearing on Strengthening child welfare and protection programsAmericans, Hilton recalled being sexually abused right where they were supposed to care for her, the Provo Canyon School in Springfield, Utah. We can call it a recovery center for teenagers, just to give us an idea, but according to the words of the rich heiress it was anything but.
“I know from personal experience the harm caused by being placed in residential facilities for young people,” she began to Congress, explaining that at the age of 16 her parents decided to send her there. They wanted to appease that rebellious little girl and unhinged, who did not obey and was indulging in a life of excess that could have damaged her, but the “correction” involved deplorable methods.
“These programs promised healing, growth and support, but instead they didn’t allow me to speak, move freely or even look out the window for two years. (…) I have been forcibly subjected to drug ingestion and sexually abused by the staff,” he said, going into detail. “I was violently restrained and dragged along the corridors, stripped naked and thrown into solitary confinement“.
The appeal to protect children and adolescents from abuse
Many years have passed since then but the wounds have never gone away. Hilton had already told all this in the documentary This Is Pariswithout ever blaming what happened to the genitori Ricky e Kathy Hiltonwho he always believed had been manipulated and deceived by the institute’s staff.
“I buried my truth for so long – he said in a previous interview with People -. Ma I’m proud of the strong woman I’ve become. People might think that everything in my life has been easy for me, but I want to show the world who I really am.” “As a mother, these stories break my heart.. The treatment these kids have endured is criminal. I will not rest until America’s youth are safe,” he concluded during Wednesday’s hearing, thinking of his children, Phoenix and London.
The portal Page Six contacted representatives of Universal Health Services, the current owner of Provo Canyon School, which has denied any responsibility, having only operated the center since August 2000. Many former students have supported Hilton’s claims that, in no uncertain terms, called for the school to be closed.
