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While Paris Hilton has previously spoken out about the abuse she said she suffered at various boarding schools she attended as a teenager, the DJ and businesswoman shares even more details about her harrowing experience at Paris: The Memoir. Paris issues a warning before speaking about the trauma she suffered during the two years she spent at various CEDU (CEDU Educational Services, Inc.) schools, including Provo Canyon School in Utah.
Paris first remembers that it begins when she is dragged out of bed in the middle of the night. “My mind instantly went to the obvious,” Paris writes. “I am about to be raped. I am about to be murdered. Here memory is shattered, a mirror broken in my mind. Two men. Hands on me.”
From there, Paris details being repeatedly strip-searched, verbally and physically abused, and “force-fed drugs with the intent to dull my wits and compel me to obey.”
The 42-year-old writes that she made multiple escape attempts from the schools, but was always found and brought back to the facility, including once being “beaten” on her return.
In February 2021, Paris testified in a Utah court against the Provo Canyon School in support of a bill focused on ending abuse in congregate care facilities in the state. Describing her alleged experiences at the institution, she said, “I was verbally, mentally and physically abused every day. I was cut off from the outside world and stripped of all my human rights.”
The bill eventually passed and Paris continues her advocacy work for survivors of the “Troubled Teen Industry” through her 11:11 Impact Foundation.
In a statement shared with E! News in October 2022, Provo Canyon School said the boarding school “was sold by its previous owner in August 2000.”
“What we can say is that the school provides a structured environment that teaches life skills, provides behavioral health therapy, and continuing education for youth who come to us with pre-existing and complex emotional, behavioral, and psychiatric needs,” the statement read. the notice. “These young people have not been successful in the typical home and school environment.
