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She recalled the terrible recurring dream she started experiencing after attending the Provo Canyon School in her documentary This Is Paris.
But after recalling the horrors of her alleged experience at the school in the film and beginning her advocate work, Paris Hilton says she no longer experiences nightmares.
‘I used to have very bad insomnia, but ever since I did my documentary and I’ve been doing all of my work for my cause to help the children, it’s been so healing that I don’t have nightmares anymore,’ the heiress, 40, told WSJ. Magazine.
‘It’s been so healing’: Paris Hilton says she no longer suffers from insomnia and nightmares after releasing her deeply personal documentary This Is Paris last year
In her interview, Paris says she has also learned to be embrace time at home during the pandemic despite otherwise being quite the social butterfly.
‘I learned that I can stay home, that I don’t need to be everywhere, because I’ve always been one of those people who needs to be everywhere and then I have FOMO. I’ve learned that I don’t need to be at every single event, I can just be at home. Also, just getting so much work done with the technology we have available, I just feel like I’ve saved so much time. I can literally do 20 Zooms in one day, get a week’s worth of work done in one day.’
The heiress, who is engaged to entrepreneur Carter Reum, also said she was struggling to book a wedding venue for her upcoming nuptials.
Speaking of her upcoming Peacock docuseries Paris In Love, which follows her journey down the aisle, she told the magazine: ‘It’s very stressful because so many wedding venues have been booked up because of what happened during the pandemic; a lot of weddings had to be rescheduled. So every venue that I want is basically booked.’
‘It’s very stressful’: The heiress, who is engaged to entrepreneur Carter Reum, also said she was struggling to book a wedding venue for her upcoming nuptials
The interview comes nearly a year after Paris described the alleged abuse she endured while attending the Provo Canyon School as a teenager.
The heiress started started suffering from insomnia and nightmares afterwards.
‘I always have this recurring nightmare no matter what I do. I’m in bed and these two people come into my room and say, “Do you want this to happen the easy way or the hard way?” Paris recalled in her documentary. ‘I try and just run.’
‘I knew it was going to be worse than anywhere else’: The interview comes nearly a year after Paris described the alleged abuse she endured while attending the Provo Canyon School as a teenager
Paris spent 11 months at Provo Canyon, the last in a series of schools her parents enrolled her in, which focused on behavioral and mental development.
She told People: ‘I knew it was going to be worse than anywhere else… It was supposed to be a school, but [classes] were not the focus at all.’
‘From the moment I woke up until I went to bed, it was all day screaming in my face, yelling at me, continuous torture.’
‘Continuous torture’: Hilton, pictured June 2021, recalled the alleged horrors she endured in her candid documentary
The House of Wax actress continued: ‘The staff would say terrible things. They were constantly making me feel bad about myself and bully me. I think it was their goal to break us down.
‘And they were physically abusive, hitting and strangling us. They wanted to instill fear in the kids so we’d be too scared to disobey them.’
‘You couldn’t trust anyone there,’ she said of a classmate who snitched on her for trying to escape.
Isolation: Paris said she was subsequently placed in solitary confinement as punishment: ‘They would use that as punishment, sometimes 20 hours a day’
Paris said she was subsequently placed in solitary confinement as punishment: ‘They would use that as punishment, sometimes 20 hours a day.’
Three of her former classmates from Provo Canyon also appear in the documentary, making similar allegations, including the use of restraints and being force-fed medication.
She added: ‘I was having panic attacks and crying every single day. I was just so miserable. I felt like a prisoner and I hated life.’
Paris said she never told her parents: ‘I didn’t really get to speak to my family, maybe once every two or three months. We were cut off from the outside world. And when I tried to tell them once, I got in so much trouble I was scared to say it again.
‘I didn’t want to speak of it’: The Stars Are Blind artist left the school in 1999, after she turned 18
‘They would grab the phone or rip up letters I wrote telling me, ‘No one is going to believe you.’ And the staff would tell the parents that the kids were lying. So my parents had no idea what was going on.’
The Stars Are Blind artist left the school in 1999, after she turned 18, recalling: ‘I was so grateful to be out of there, I didn’t even want to bring it up again. It was just something I was ashamed of and I didn’t want to speak of it.’
Upon the This Is Paris’ release in September, Provo denied the star’s abuse allegations, also claiming they had fallen under new management and thus were not liable for any previous wrongdoing, as per TODAY.
In February, Paris testified about the ‘traumatizing’ abuse she says she endured at the school while speaking at the Utah Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee in favor of the bill that would require more government oversight of youth residential treatment centers and require them to document when they use restraints.
The measure passed out of committee unanimously following testimony from Paris and other survivors.
The bill was signed by Utah Governor Spencer Cox in March, and Paris returned in April for a ceremonial bill signing.
Painful past: Paris spent 11 months at Provo Canyon, the last in a series of schools her parents enrolled her in, which focused on behavioral and mental development (pictured in 2000)
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