‘People called it a scandal but…’ – Firstpost

There’s a scene in the documentary about Paris Hilton which came out six years ago, where the so-called socialite is speaking with former classmates from a Utah boarding school. They joke about how on her reality series The Simple Life, Hilton pretended to be clueless over many things— including how to perform any sort of manual labour.

But we shall discuss that later. Hilton has addressed the controversy that erupted when her private and intimate video got leaked when she was only 19. As per a report by People, the American business woman and social media personality was quoted saying, “When I was 19 years old, a private, intimate video of me was shared with the world without my consent. People called it a scandal. It wasn’t. It was abuse. There were no laws at the time to protect me. There weren’t even words for what had been done to me. The internet was still new, and so was the cruelty that came with it.”

**The revelations in the documentary**

When she was 17, Hilton was finally sent to what she describes as “the worst of the worst” — Provo Canyon School in Utah. “This is the only place where it’s impossible to run away. So it’s basically like that one place that they all talk about at the other places saying, ‘If you run away or you’re bad, you’re going to be sent to Provo,’” said Hilton. She stayed at Provo for 11 months and says while there, she was abused mentally and physically, claiming staff would beat her, force her to take unknown pills, watch her shower and send her to solitary confinement without clothes as punishment.

The 39-year-old says the treatment was so “traumatizing” that she suffered nightmares and insomnia for years. “We are aware of a new documentary referencing Provo Canyon School (PCS). Please note that PCS was sold by its previous owner in August 2000. We, therefore, cannot comment on the operations or patient experience prior to that time,” the school said in a statement on its website.