American socialite and billionaire heiress, Paris Hilton has revealed some dark parts of her childhood.
In a bombshell new interview with Glamour magazine, Hilton revealed that her first sexual encounter was non-consensual and occurred at the age of 15.
Hilton, now 42, claimed her abuser was an older man she met at a local mall in California, who allegedly slipped something into her drink and took advantage of her.
At the time, Hilton was living with her maternal grandmother in Palm Springs. She told the outlet that she usually visits Los Angeles to see her friends and hang out at the Westfield Century City shopping center “almost every weekend.”
She noted that “[older] guys would always just be hanging around the stores” and that she and her pals would “talk to them” and “give them [their] beeper [pager] numbers.”
One day, the group of men “invited” Hilton and her girls “to their house,” where the minors were allegedly given “berry wine coolers” to drink.
Hilton – who “didn’t drink or [do] anything back then” – recalled one of the guys being particularly forceful in making her consume her beverage.
“When I had maybe one or two sips, I just immediately started feeling dizzy and woozy,” she claimed. “I don’t know what he put in there; I’m assuming it was a roofie [Rohypnol].”
The new mom said she passed out and woke up a few hours later, knowing that something had happened.
“I remembered it,” she shared. “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.”
“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,” she recalled.
After that experience she spent over two years at various expensive behavioral modification programs, including Provo Canyon School in Utah, where she claimed she was force-fed drugs and subjected to late-night gynecological exams.
“I was just a little girl. I just feel like they stole my childhood,” she told Glamour, adding that her time at Provo contributed to her and husband Carter Reum’s decision to welcome their newborn son, Phoenix Barron Hilton Reum, via surrogate.
When asked if she chose surrogacy because she was worried about carrying a baby at her age, the DJ replied, “No,” and said she would’ve used a surrogate at 20.
“I’m just so scared – I think, again, leading back to Provo – of even being in a doctor’s office, just all of that. The shots, the IVs that they put in,” she explained, noting that she wanted a family “so bad” but couldn’t bear “the physical part of doing it.”
Hilton also revealed during her interview that she had an abortion in her early 20s, something she “didn’t want to talk about because there was so much shame around that” at the time.
“I was a kid,” she said, “and I was not ready for that.”
“This was also something that I didn’t want to talk about because there was so much shame around that,” she said. “I was a kid and I was not ready for that.”
While Hilton has kept the secret for decades, it wasn’t until Roe v Wade was overturned last year that she felt the need to speak out on the matter.
“I think it is important,” she says. “There’s just so much politics around it and all that, but it’s a woman’s body … Why should there be a law based on that?”
She continued, “It’s your body, your choice and I really believe in that. It’s mind-boggling to me that they’re making laws about what you do with your reproductive health, because if it were the other way around with the guys, it would not be this way at all.”