Paris Hilton testified in a court in the state of Utah on Monday about her experiences at her old boarding school, the Provo Canyon School.
In YouTube-documentaire This Is Paris The reality star revealed last year that she was beaten, strangled and locked up in her years at the school for difficult-to-educate teenagers. After the broadcast of the program, more former students, including Kat von D, shared their stories about abuse at the school.
Hilton was one of three witnesses on Monday at the request of a state senator who wants rules for schools like Provo to be tightened. “My name is Paris Hilton. Today I speak on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of children currently living in boarding schools across the country,” she began her testimony according to People.
The reality star spoke, among other things, about the consequences of the bad treatment she received at the school. “For twenty years I have had the same nightmare of being kidnapped by two strangers in the middle of the night, being searched naked and locked up in an institution. I wish this nasty nightmare were just a dream, but it isn’t.”
‘I didn’t get fresh air for eleven months’
The 39-year-old Hilton said that she was cut off from the outside world at the school and was not treated as a human being. “Without ever being diagnosed, I was forced to take drugs that left me feeling numb and exhausted.”
“I haven’t had fresh air for eleven months. There was no privacy: when I used the toilet or showered, I was watched. I was sixteen years old, a child, and felt their eyes on my naked body all the time. I was a child and was treated with inhumane treatment every day. “
In October, Hilton hosted a demonstration against her old boarding school for alleged abuses. In August of the same year, the reality star said about her traumatic time there, where they enter a month later This Is Paris deeper accepted.
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