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Paris Hilton reveals date rape drug abuse at 15, her abortion, and an encounter with Harvey Weinstein

The celebrity and hotel heiress shared her troubled past in an interview with Glamour magazine ahead of the release of her autobiography Paris: The Memoir.

Paris Hilton reveals date rape drug abuse at 15, her abortion, and an encounter with Harvey Weinstein

FILE - Paris Hilton has welcomed her first child, with her husband Carter Reum. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

Paris Hilton has told for the first time how she was assaulted aged 15 by an older man who knocked her out with date rape drug Rohypnol.

The multi-millionaire hotel heiress, 42, who this month had her first child with her 42-year-old venture capitalist husband Carter Reum – a boy they have named Phoenix Barron Hilton Reum – has also revealed she was kissed in her teens by a predatory teacher who bombarded her with phone calls.

She said in a candid chat on her troubled past with the February issue of Glamour magazine, ahead of the release of her tell-all autobiography Paris: The Memoir, about being drugged as a teen after she and her friends met a group of men at the Century City Mall in Los Angeles.

“We would go there almost every weekend. That was our favourite thing to do and these (older) guys would always just be hanging around the stores... we’d talk to them, give them our beeper numbers," she said.

“And then one day, they invited us to their house and we’re drinking these berry wine coolers.

“I didn’t drink or anything back then, but then when I had maybe one or two sips, I just immediately started feeling dizzy and woozy.

“I don’t know what he put in there, I’m assuming it was a roofie (Rohypnol.)”

Hilton added she woke a few hours later and found her friend had left, but she had memories of being abused.

She said: “I remembered it. 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.”

The incident happened when Hilton was sent to live with her maternal grandmother after she says she was targeted by a teacher.

She added: “I was just such a young girl and I got manipulated by my teacher. 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.”

Hilton first revealed details of her abusive past in her 2020 YouTube documentary This Is Paris – including abuse she suffered during her two years at schools for troubled teens, as well as being the victim of a leaked sex tape.

ABORTION AND HARVEY WEINSTEIN

In that same interview with Glamour, she also revealed having an abortion in her 20s but kept it secret out of “shame”.

“This was also something that I didn’t want to talk about because there was so much shame around that. I was a kid and I was not ready for that.”

Hilton added it was not until the US Supreme Court overturned the Roe v Wade abortion ruling last year she felt motivated to talk about it.

She said: “I think it is important. There’s just so much politics around it and all that, but it’s a woman’s body... why should there be a law based on that?

“It’s your body, your choice and I really believe in that. It’s mind-boggling to me that they’re making laws about what you do with your reproductive health, because if it were the other way around with the guys, it would not be this way at all.”

Hilton also recounted an experience involving disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein tha took place at The Foundation for Aids Research gala during the Cannes Film Festival in 2000, when she was 19.

“I was at lunch with my girlfriend and he came up to the table and was like, ‘Oh, you want to be an actress?’

“And I said, ‘Yeah, I really want to be in a movie.’

“I was a teenager, so I was impressed by him. I was like, ‘Oh my god, Harvey Weinstein is so cool!’ and he said, ‘Well, we should have a meeting. You can come up to my room and read scripts’… and I just didn’t want to go, so I never went.”

Hilton said about the following day, when Weinstein was hosting the Aids Research gala which she attended: “I went into the bathroom and then he followed me.

“He tried to open the door, he was hammering on the door, banging on it. And I wouldn’t open it, because I was like, ‘I’m in a stall, why do you want to come in here?’

“And I just wouldn’t open it. And security came and literally carried him away and he was like (shouting), ‘This is my party,’ going nuts. It scared me and freaked me out.”

The interview was published on Thursday (Feb 23), hours before Weinstein was sentenced to another 16 years in jail for rape and sexual assault in LA – on top of his current 23-year term for a 2020 conviction for raping an aspiring actress and sexually abusing a TV and film production assistant.

Source: Others/Bang Showbiz

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