Paris Hilton and the physical, verbal and emotional abuse she suffered while at boarding school

Yesterday, Brtiney Spears gave explosive testimony at a hearing about her conservatorship, about the abuses of power by her father and management, its effect on her mental health and her request to end the conservatorship immediately. She said she was only speaking out now because she used to think that no one would believe her, that she’d be laughed at. In her testimony, she mentions Paris Hilton and the fact that so few people believed her about her traumatic experience in boarding school. “To be honest with you, the Paris Hilton story on what they did to her to that school, I didn’t believe any of it. I’m sorry. I’m an outsider, and I’ll just be honest. I didn’t believe it,” she told the judge.

Britney was referring to Paris Hilton’s experience at Provoc Canyon School in Utah, which she covered in her documentary, This is Paris, and at a February 2021 committee hearing, when she went into detail.

Provos Canyon School

Calling herself an “institutional abuse survivor” of Provo, a school for “troubled teens”, where she was placed for eleven months at the age of 16. She describes a recurring nightmare she has, that’s actually a memory, of being “kidnapped in the middle of the night by two strangers, strip-searched, and locked in a facility”.

She describes her experience at Provos as “degrading and terrifying,” saying that “children were restrained, hit, thrown into walls, strangled and regularly sexually abused.” She claims she was drugged without any diagnosis and it left her feeling “numb and exhausted”. They were monitored at all times, even when they went to the bathroom or shower, and her communication with the outside world, including her family, was strictly monitored. “It was all day screaming in my face, yelling at me, continuous torture.”