Paris Hilton Admits It’s Been ‘Really Hard’ And ‘Emotional’ Having Her Parents Read Her New Memoir
17.03.2023 - 21:57
/ etcanada.com
Paris Hilton admitted it was tough for her parents Kathy and Richard Hilton to read her tell-all new book, Paris: The Memoir.
Hilton spoke out about things including suffering physical and psychological abuse during her time at Provo Canyon School — a Utah boarding school for troubled teens — in her 2020 documentary, “This Is Paris”.
She then dove further into some of the harder parts of her life in her memoir, with Andy Cohen questioning whether she was nervous about her parents reading certain bits.
Hilton said during her appearance on “Watch What Happens Live” on Thursday: “So much of the book. I talk about things I’ve never told anyone. It was definitely really hard for my parents to read. It’s been very emotional.
“But I’m so, just proud to tell my story and to have made such a difference in the troubled teen industry.”
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Cohen also asked whether she thought people now looked at her in a different way since the book and doc were released.
Hilton responded, “Definitely. People are realizing I’m not a dumb blonde, I’m just very good at pretending to be one.”
Her comments come after she recently opened up about the abuse she suffered at what she calls “children’s torture camps” in a candid new interview with Rolling Stone.
She recalled spending nearly two years at troubled-teen “treatment centres,” telling the magazine: “I had just been so abused that I didn’t even know who I was anymore. I just was like, ‘Who am I? And what is life?’”
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The abuse took place when Hilton was 16-18 at four for-profit