In the 2000s, at the height of her fame, Paris Hilton appeared to have it all – a filthy rich family, celebrity friends and partying prowess to make most people’s kidneys ache in sympathy. But behind her wild antics was a deep pain borne of her parents sending her to Provo Canyon School, a behavioural facility for troubled teens in Utah, which has been accused of abusive tactics including drugging kids against their will, physical abuse and sexual assault.
Speaking to a senate committee, Paris, 40, said she’s had a “recurring nightmare” where she is “kidnapped in the middle of the night by two strangers, strip searched and locked in a facility. “[Fellow students were] restrained, thrown into walls, and sexually abused, regularly,” she says, adding that she didn’t tell…
