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PARIS HILTON OPENS UP ABOUT THE TERRIFYING ABUSE SHE SUFFERED AS A TEEN

- Nikita Deb ■

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Lucky Number: 7 Lucky Colour: Pink ari is Hilton has op ened up about a pa inful secret she’s kep pt private for over two o decades. In her new w documentar­y, This s Is Paris, the entre epreneur and reality y star reveals or the e first time the orrific abuse she endured as a teen n

Hilton n, 39, in an intervie ew with People.ccom, spoke of the mental, emotional and physica al pain she underw went while at Provo Canyon n School in the late ‘90 0s. “I’m proud of the str rong woman I’ve become. . People might assume ev verything in my life cam me easy to me, but I want to show s the world who I trul ly am,” she said. Years bbefore she became a household d name on The Simple Lif fe in 2003, Hilton was a teen n living in New York City y’s famed Waldorf Astoria HHotel with her parents, RRick and Kathy Hilton. “My parents were so stric ct that it made me want tto rebel. They’d [pun nish me] by taking away my cell phone, taking away my credit card, but it didn’t work,” she told People.com.

Eventually, her parents decided to send her to a series of boarding schools that claimed to focus on behavioura­l and mental developmen­t, the last of which was Provo Canyon School. Almost immediatel­y after she arrived, “I knew it was going to be worse than anywhere else,” said Hilton.

“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. They were constantly making me feel bad about myself and bully me. And they were physically abusive, hitting and strangling us,” she added.

Attempts to tell her parents about the conditions at school were fruitless. “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.”

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Singer-songwriter Nikhil D’Souza, known for his Bollywood superhit tracks such as Gubbare Gubbare (Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu; 2012), Alvida (D-Day; 2013), and Lip to Lip (Katti Batti; 2015), among others, recently felt that though he had sung a lot of Bollywood tracks and even a few English indie tracks, he hadn’t done enough in the Hindi indie genre. And so, the singer decided to work on an EP titled Waqt, and he did that over the last eight to nine months. But due to the lockdown, his process had to be entirely rediscover­ed and most of the songs in the EP were recorded from his bedroom, which was “challengin­g”, he says.

“It was a little exhausting because when you are in a studio, you know you are going to book it for a few hours and get straight two to three hours without interrupti­on, but staying at home and recording in the bedroom is a hit and miss because the dog from the sixth floor will suddenly start barking, or your neighbours are shouting, and then you have delete that whole take. So, it can get a little unpredicta­ble, but the advantage is that when I am just by myself, I can really sing the way I want to. And I don’t have other people kind of second guessing every take. My Bollywood songs are very different because usually, you give like 15 takes and then they chop it and base it how they

There are certain technical things while making a song that you can’t achieve in a bedroom, and need a recording studio. NIKHIL D’SOUZA, SINGER

want to. But this has been a rewarding experience, much more rewarding than producing an album out of a studio with a label because you are doing it yourself and the final product is something that I am proud of,” says D’Souza.

The singer, however, says that even though he would be doing a lot more work from his home now, everyone has to be careful to not let the studios go out of business. “Studios need to be functionin­g because there are a whole bunch of people who rely on studios for their livelihood, so we are kind of letting those people down also by destroying that business,” he says, adding that a lot of technical stuff cannot be achieved while recording at home. “This process has shown me that I can produce at home, but there are certain technical things that you can’t achieve in the bedroom. If you have a song that is sung very close up to the mic and needs some sort of definition or the guitar, then you need to go to a studio because you need that sound proofing,” he concludes.

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