To this day, Paris Hilton is “sliving” it.
The memoir Paris: The Memoir, which was released on March 14, features the Paris in Love star, who recently welcomed her baby Phoenix with husband Carter Reum.
Among the many private themes she addresses in her memoirs, the 42-year-old recounts her decision to have an abortion in her twenties, being raped at 15 and the lasting impact her infamous sex tape scandal had on her family and her career.
The Simple Life alum shares more harrowing information about the two years she spent in various institutions after initially speaking out in her 2020 YouTube video This Is Paris about the alleged abuse she allegedly experienced at the Utah boarding school she attended as a teenager.
Affirming that “revisiting the aughts from a post-#MeToo/#TimesUp viewpoint is traumatic,” Paris looks back on the media attention she received in the beginning of her career, notably the famed Holy Trinity shot with Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan.
“I had fun—tons of fun and I refuse to remember it any other way,” Paris writes of that era. “Other than a few occasions that left me curled up in a ball, I didn’t let haters get to me.”
But the DJ did point out the impossible double standard young women in the spotlight were held to at the time.
“We expected girls to be sexualized and then condemned for their sexuality,” she explains. “Punished for both silence and speaking out, told we should accept responsibility for our choices and then called crazy or stupid or slutty if we didn’t live by the rules other people chose for us.”
Now, Paris is living by her own rules. Here are the biggest bombshells we learned from Paris: The Memoir:
