Paris Hilton is using her experiences to help others.
The businesswoman and hotel heiress is featured in a new film called “Infinite Icon: A Visual Memoir.” It shows how she got ready for her first big concert at the Hollywood Palladium after her album “Infinite Icon” came out in 2024. The movie also looks at how music helped her during tough times.
Hilton spoke out in 2020 about alleged abuse she suffered as a teenager at Provo Canyon School (PCS) in Utah. She says she wants to keep talking about it to hold abusers responsible and protect children.
Hilton, now 44, told Fox News Digital that this work is very important to her. She’s happy she turned her pain into something that helps many children.
She added that she talks to senators and lawmakers every week, both in the United States and Europe. She plans to keep fighting until all children are safe.
Hilton has been talking about the abuse she says she suffered at PCS for years. She was a student there for 11 months when she was 17 and left when she turned 18 in 1999.
Hilton claims she was mistreated mentally and physically. She says staff members hit her, made her take pills she didn’t know, watched her shower, and put her in solitary confinement without clothes as punishment. She also says she was given medical exams without her permission. She says the treatment at PCS was so upsetting that she had nightmares and couldn’t sleep for years.
Hilton says her ADHD made things worse and led to her being sent to the school.
Her non-profit, 11:11 Media Impact, has helped pass the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act and 15 state laws in the U.S. that protect young people in treatment centers.
In 2024, Hilton went to Jamaica to support seven American boys who were taken out of a “troubled teen” program accused of mistreating them.
Hilton wants to keep using her voice to let others know they can share their stories safely. She knows it can be hard at first, but it can also help them heal. She wants her new movie to show this to the world.
In 2020, PCS said that it was sold to new owners in August 2000 and couldn’t comment on what happened before then.
The school called itself a “psychiatric residential treatment center” for kids aged 8 to 18. It stated that it doesn’t allow any kind of abuse and reports any suspected abuse to the authorities right away. The school said it’s committed to providing good care for young people with emotional, behavioral, and psychiatric problems.
After the documentary “This is Paris” came out, other famous people like Paris Jackson and Kat Von D talked about their experiences at similar schools. In 2022, Hilton created the podcast “Trapped in Treatment” to expose the “troubled teen industry.”
Hilton is now supporting the Federal Accountability for Congregate Care Act, which would create a “bill of rights” for young people in care facilities to protect them from abuse and neglect.
Hilton says she’ll keep fighting to protect children from abuse in these institutions.
“I can’t wait to continue this work and to save more children from what myself and so many others went through,” said Hilton.
“Infinite Icon: A Visual Memoir” will be released on January 30.
