Hilton: I was raped as a teen
Paris Hilton has revealed she was drugged and raped as a teenager in a new interview.
Talking to Glamour UK, the reality TV star, hotel heiress and pop culture icon detailed the assault along with other incidents of abuse and sexual trauma. She also discussed a harrowing encounter with a high school teacher and a frightening run-in with convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein.
Hilton described hanging with her friends at the Century City mall in Los Angeles as a teen. It was where she met a group of older men, one of whom later raped her.
“One day, they invited us to their house and we’re drinking these berry wine coolers,” she told Glamour UK. “I didn’t drink or anything back then, but then when I had maybe one or two sips, I just immediately started feeling dizzy and woozy. I don’t know what he put in there, I’m assuming it was a roofie.”
Paris said she woke up hours later and knew something bad had happened to her.
It was her first sexual experience, but not the first time she’d encountered abusive behavior at the hands of an older man.
In the 2020 YouTube documentary “This Is Paris, “Hilton opened up about the sexual and psychological trauma she’d grappled with when attending Provo Canyon School in Utah, a boarding school where she spent 11 months. She endured a leaked sex tape scandal in 2004. And when she was 19, she encountered a belligerent Harvey Weinstein at the Cannes Film Festival.
“I was at lunch with my girlfriend and he came up to the table and was like, ‘Oh, you want to be an actress?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, I really want to be in a movie,’” she told Glamour UK. “I was a teenager, so I was impressed by him. I was like, ‘Oh my God, Harvey Weinstein is so cool!’ and he said, ‘Well, we should have a meeting. You can come up to my room and read scripts’… and I just didn’t want to go, so I never went.”
The next evening, she alleged, Weinstein followed her to the women’s restroom.
“He tried to open the door, he was hammering on the door, banging on it,” she said. “And I wouldn’t open it, because I was like, ‘I’m in a stall, why do you want to come in here?’ ... And security came and literally carried him away and he was like (shouting), ‘This is my party,’ going nuts. It scared me and freaked me out.”
Hilton’s forthcoming book, “Paris: The Memoir,” hits shelves March 14.