Paris Hilton Reveals She Had an Abortion, Says Her First Sexual Experience Was Being Drugged & Raped

On egg freezing and surrogacy

Hilton says that when she was exploring pregnancy options, she turned to her childhood friend Kim Kardashian, who encouraged her to get her eggs frozen. She did one round of IVF after Kardashian told her about it. And during lockdown, she also had 20 embryos frozen with her now-husband.

Though Hilton is now a mother, she and her husband chose to get pregnant through surrogacy, on which was she also influenced by Kardashian: “Kim told me about that [surrogacy] as well…I’m using the same doctor, Dr Huang, who’s the best and he has a concierge team that deals with everything and interviews the people [the surrogate] to make sure that they’re healthy.”

Hilton says she would’ve used a surrogate even if she was having kids at age 20, because she is so traumatized by doctors due to her time at Provo Canyon School in Utah, where she spent 11 months as a teen. She claims administrators constantly gave her shots, took samples of her blood, and put in IVs her unnecessarily. She also says she was traumatized by shooting a live birth scene on The Simple Life.

On her run-in with Harvey Weinstein

Hilton details an encounter with Harvey Weinstein at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000. She was 19 at the time and says he approached her at a lunch.

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.”

At a gala Weinstein was hosting the following evening, Hilton says Weinstein “became aggressive with her.”

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.

Hilton admits she’d heard the rumors about Weinstein at the time, but never said anything because she didn’t “want people getting mad” at her. “He was just like that and people were like, ‘OK, just turn a blind eye.’”

A little bit of everything else

• Hilton alleges that a teacher “manipulated” her at 15 years old. She details how he called her on the phone repeatedly, lured her into his car, and kissed her.
• The same year, Hilton says a group of older guys spotted her at the Century City mall, invited her and a friend to their house, and gave them berry wine coolers. Hilton says she began to feel dizzy after two sips, and knew she had probably been roofied. She says she had visions of the man on top of her. It was her first sexual experience, she says.
• Her fake bimbo persona was a “character” that “was a trauma response,” she says. “It was actually more comforting to put on this mask just to deal with everything I’d been through in life…I was inspired by Marilyn Monroe, Barbie and Dolly Parton, all these blonde icons who were definitely playing characters as well. And that just made me not think about any of the bad stuff. It was like a total escape.”
• Hilton maintains that she has not received a single cent from her family and that she is entirely self-made. (The woman clearly has a strong business acumen, but come on.)
• She is planning a Paris Hilton line of spas! She says she’s never had Botox, and instead “stay[s] out of the sun, I get facials and use EMS electric therapy, preventative things.” She already has an aggressive home spa, too: “I have a whole wellness center at my house with the sickest equipment you’ve ever seen. I have a hyperbaric chamber that fits four people, a cryo machine that fits three people, the NuEra Tight machine, which is the new laser that tightens your skin. The Icoone that goes and does a lymphatic thing, but shapes your whole body. I have like 20 machines.”
• Growing up, Hilton had pet ferrets and a goat.

“I’m not a dumb blonde, I’m just very good at pretending to be one,” Hilton says of her past. “The real me is someone who is strong and resilient, brave, smart and fun.”

I’m very much here for Hilton’s personal growth and airing out all her trauma and demons, and I’m sure she’ll be a great (and well-supported) mother. And when it comes to recovery, I imagine having $300 million, a “whole wellness center,” and a hyperbaric chamber for four doesn’t hurt.