Paris Hilton has said she is “horrified” by her past racist and homophobic comments, blaming it on the “gross” language she was forced to use while at boarding school.
Writing in her new book Paris: The Memoir, the Simple Life star explained that while living at “therapeutic boarding schools from the age of 16, she had to take part in group ‘attack therapy’, where participants were forced to hurl abuse at one another.
Hilton, 42, said that the therapy sessions included the “ugliest language possible”.
“The N-word. The C-word. The F-word. (Not that F-word, the worse one.) I look back on some of the things I said in the years after I left Provo [Canyon School], in the throes of PTSD, and I’m mortified,” she wrote in the memoir, adding that she was “horrified”.
The socialite has come under fire numerous times for her use of slurs and discriminatory language since her global rise to fame in 2003.
In 2012, Hilton was recorded suggesting that gay men “probably have AIDS”.
“Gay guys are the horniest people in the world. They’re disgusting. Dude, most of them probably have AIDS,” Hilton said in the audio clip. She later apologised for the comments.
In 2007, videos were obtained showing Hilton dancing to the Notorious B.I.G. song “Hypnotize” with her sister Nicky, in which Hilton says “We’re like two n*****s.”
The video also saw Hilton call a friend a “f****t”, while other footage showed the singer changing the lyrics of Sister Sledge’s “We Are Family” to include racist and anti-Semitic remarks.
