Paris Hilton has revealed she was drugged and raped as a teenager in a new interview revealed Thursday (Feb 23).
Talking to (*15*) UK, the truth TV star, resort heiress and popular 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 horrifying run-in with convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein.
Hilton described hanging along with her pals at the Century City mall in Los Angeles as a teen. It was their favorite factor to do, and the place she met a group of older males, considered one of whom later raped her.
“One day, they invited us to their home and we’re ingesting these berry wine coolers,” she advised (*15*) UK. “I did not drink or something again then, however then once I had perhaps one or two sips, I simply instantly began feeling dizzy and woozy. I do not 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’ve visions of him on prime of me, overlaying my mouth, being like, ‘You’re dreaming, you are dreaming,’ and whispering that in my ear.”
It was her first sexual expertise, however not the primary time she’d encountered abusive behaviour at the fingers of an older man.
“I was simply such a younger woman and I received manipulated by my trainer,” she advised (*15*) UK. “He took benefit of a younger woman and that was one thing I blocked out as effectively, I did not bear in mind it till years later.
“He would name me on the telephone on a regular basis, simply flirting with me, making an attempt to place in my thoughts that I was this mature girl.”
One evening, he confirmed as much as her house and persuaded her to sit down in his automobile with him, till her dad and mom arrived house and he sped off with Hilton nonetheless within the automobile.
“We solely kissed, but when my dad and mom did not come, think about what he would’ve tried to do. We actually drove by means of Bel-Air at like 100 miles an hour. We had been going so quick and one way or the other we received away from them by means of a crimson gentle. He was freaking out and drove me again house to Bel-Air, the place he was like, ‘Get out’.”
“To at the present time, I’ve not talked about it with my household. I’ve by no means advised anybody,” she mentioned. “I do not know what it was, I simply felt so ashamed by the entire state of affairs – simply from the start at such a younger age and it actually caught with me in a bizarre approach.”
In the 2020 YouTube documentary This Is Paris, Hilton opened up in regards to 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 intercourse tape scandal in 2004. And when she was 19, she encountered a belligerent Harvey Weinstein at the Cannes Film Festival.
“I was at lunch with my girlfriend and he got here as much as the desk and was like, ‘Oh, you need to be an actress?’ And I mentioned, ‘Yeah, I actually need to be in a film,'” she advised (*15*) UK.
“I was a teenager, so I was impressed by him. I was like, ‘Oh my God, Harvey Weinstein is so cool!’ and he mentioned, ‘Well, we must always have a meeting. You can come as much as my room and learn scripts’… and I simply did not need to go, so I by no means went.”
The subsequent night, she alleged, Weinstein adopted her to the ladies’s restroom.
“I went into the toilet and then he adopted me,” she mentioned. “He tried to open the door, he was hammering on the door, banging on it. And I would not open it, as a result of I was like, ‘I’m in a stall, why do you need to are available in right here?’
“And I simply would not open it. And safety got here and actually carried him away and he was like (shouting), ‘This is my social gathering,’ going nuts. It scared me and freaked me out.”
Hilton’s forthcoming guide, Paris: The Memoir, hits cabinets March 14. – Los Angeles Times/Tribune News Service
