Paris Hilton reveals she was drugged and raped at 15
Paris Hilton has revealed she was drugged and raped as a teen in a brand new interview printed Thursday.
Talking to Glamour UK, the reality-TV star, lodge heiress and pop-culture icon detailed the assault together with different incidents of abuse and sexual trauma. She additionally mentioned a harrowing encounter with a highschool trainer and a daunting run-in with convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein.
Hilton described hanging together with her associates on the Century City mall in Los Angeles as a teen. It was their favourite factor to do, and the place she met a gaggle of older males, considered one of whom later raped her.
Paris Hilton photographed at house in Beverly Hills in 2019.
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“One day, they invited us to their house and we’re drinking these berry wine coolers,” she informed Glamour UK. “I didn’t drink or anything back then, but then when I had maybe one or two sips, I just immediately started feeling dizzy and woozy. I don’t know what he put in there, I’m assuming it was a roofie.”
Paris mentioned she wakened hours later and knew one thing dangerous had occurred to her. “I remembered it. I have visions of him on top of me, covering my mouth, being like, ‘You’re dreaming, you’re dreaming,’ and whispering that in my ear.”
It was her first sexual expertise, however not the primary time she’d encountered abusive habits by the hands of an older man.
“I was just such a young girl and I got manipulated by my teacher,” she informed Glamour UK. “He took advantage of a young girl and that was something I blocked out as well, I didn’t remember it until years later. He would call me on the phone all the time, just flirting with me, trying to put in my mind that I was this mature woman.”
One night time, he confirmed as much as her house and persuaded her to take a seat in his automotive with him, till her dad and mom arrived house and he sped off with Hilton nonetheless within the automotive.
“We only kissed, but if my parents didn’t come, imagine what he would’ve tried to do. We literally drove through Bel-Air at like 100 miles an hour. We were going so fast and somehow we got away from them through a red light. He was freaking out and drove me back home to Bel-Air, where he was like, ‘Get out.’”
“To this day, I’ve not talked about it with my family. I’ve never told anyone,” she mentioned. “I don’t know what it was, I just felt so ashamed by the whole situation — just from the beginning at such a young age and it really stuck with me in a weird way.”
In the 2020 YouTube documentary “This Is Paris,” Hilton opened up concerning the sexual and psychological trauma she’d grappled with when attending Provo Canyon School in Utah, a boarding faculty the place she spent 11 months. She endured a leaked sex-tape scandal in 2004. And when she was 19, she encountered a belligerent Harvey Weinstein on the Cannes Film Festival.
“I was at lunch with my girlfriend and he came up to the table and was like, ‘Oh, you want to be an actress?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, I really want to be in a movie,’” she informed Glamour UK. “I was a teenager, so I was impressed by him. I was like, ‘Oh my God, Harvey Weinstein is so cool!’ and he said, ‘Well, we should have a meeting. You can come up to my room and read scripts’… and I just didn’t want to go, so I never went.”
The subsequent night, she alleged, Weinstein adopted her to the ladies’s restroom.
“I went into the bathroom and then he followed me,” she mentioned. “He tried to open the door, he was hammering on the door, banging on it. And I wouldn’t open it, because I was like, ‘I’m in a stall, why do you want to come in here?’ And I just wouldn’t open it. And security came and literally carried him away and he was like [shouting], ‘This is my party,’ going nuts. It scared me and freaked me out.”
Hilton’s forthcoming guide, “Paris: The Memoir,” hits cabinets March 14.