To the public, Paris Hilton has always been Hollywood royalty, but behind closed doors, she has lived a very different life. In “This is Paris,” her 2020 documentary, Paris opened up about the difficult time she faced after her parents, Kathy and Richard Hilton, sent her off to Utah’s Provo Canyon School, a boarding school where she suffered abuse. Prior to her time at the school, Paris had been living the party-hard lifestyle, so for Kathy and Richard, sending her to boarding school seemed to be the only solution — except it wasn’t. “It was supposed to be a school, but [classes] were not the focus at all,” Paris told People in 2020. “From the moment I woke up until I went to bed, it was all day screaming in my face, yelling at me, continuous torture.”
Expectedly, this experience left her traumatized, with the “House of Wax” star admitting she once resented her parents. “Just during that time, I did say that I hated my parents, but I didn’t really mean it, I guess,” Paris told HollywoodLife. Following the release of the documentary, Kathy appeared on “Andy Cohen Live,” where she revealed how devastating it was to find out about Paris’s abuse. “But it put me into such a depression,” she said. “I mean, a lot of people understood that we are trying to help our daughter. We were trying to save Paris …”
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