In a revealing new interview with Glamour UK, the hotel heiress, reality star and author of the forthcoming Paris: The Memoir, out March 14, spoke candidly about the sexual abuse she suffered as a teenager, including her first experience with intercourse, with an older man who she says drugged and raped her, as well as the vilification she experienced from powerful men as a young woman.
When recounting her first sexual experience, Hilton, 42, says she met the older man at the mall with her friend when she was 15 years old.
“These guys would always just be hanging around the stores [and] we’d talk to them, give them our beeper [pager] numbers,” Hilton recalled. “And then one day, they invited us to their house and we’re drinking these berry wine coolers.”
Acknowledging that she “didn’t drink or [do] anything back then,” Hilton claims one of the men was particularly forceful in having her consume a drink he’d made, which she later realized had been drugged.
“When I had maybe one or two sips, I just immediately started feeling dizzy and woozy,” she recalled. “I don’t know what he put in there; I’m assuming it was a roofie.” She eventually passed out. When she woke up a few hours later, she said she knew she’d been assaulted.
“I remembered it,” she explained. “I have visions of him on top of me, covering my mouth, being like, ‘You’re dreaming, you’re dreaming,’ and whispering that in my ear.”
It was around this time, Hilton notes, that she was also groomed by one of her high school teachers,
“I was just such a young girl and I got manipulated by my teacher,” she explained. “He took advantage of a young girl and that was something I blocked out as well, I didn’t remember it until years later… he would call me on the phone all the time, just flirting with me, trying to put in my mind that I was this mature woman.”
One night, she says, the teacher, who she does not name, lured her outside her Bel Air home and into his car, where they started kissing and were eventually caught by her parents, Kathy and Richard Hilton, who pulled up in their car and saw them. That’s when her teacher sped off at “100 miles an hour” through Bel Air, with her parents following behind in hot pursuit.
“We were going so fast and somehow we got away from them through a red light. He was freaking out and drove me back home to Bel Air, where he was like, ‘Get out,'” she said. “[I] just felt so ashamed by the whole situation — just from the beginning at such a young age and it really stuck with me in a weird way.”
“To this day, I’ve not talked about it with my family. I’ve never told anyone,” she added.
After these two encounters, her parents sent her to Provo Canyon School in Utah, where, she said in a 2020 tweet, her childhood was “stolen” from her.