It is not a secret that Paris Hilton has participated in certain protests against rehabilitation programs and schools that in reality are bad institutions that instead of helping teenagers, abuse, mistreat and brainwash them to make them feel bad for the tragedies of her life… but what surprised everyone is that Paris appears with former students from one of the schools with a reign of terror Ivy Ridge, from which Netflix has released a new crime documentary: The Program: Cons, Cults and Kidnapping.
What Happened at Ivy Ridge Academy?
Ivy Ridge is an academy for problem kids, mainly teenagers, that seeks to straighten their behaviors. Parents sent their children there with the promise that they would play sports and hike and learn new things, and it was said to be an opportunity for young people to turn their troubled lives around and make the most of their potential. Parents who sent their children to these schools spent thousands and thousands of dollars on these types of programs, and people at the schools told them that their troubled teenagers would improve their behavior through positive activities and scientific methods. Katherine Kubler, an Ivy Ridge survivor mentioned that the people in charge were not even qualified.
The rules were too many, and it could take days to learn them. Some of the absurd rules were not looking out the windows, not going out, and not smiling, students would achieve various levels of the program on a scoring scale and earn “privileges,” like wearing their hair down, based on their level.
The students were forced to engage in rituals lasting for several hours, faced deprivation of fundamental needs such as sleep and food if they refused, and were coerced into performing humiliating acts designed to degrade them in front of their peers. Worse than in prison, the students could not communicate with their parents to complain about the situation, since all their letters and phone calls were monitored.
Paris Hilton in Provo Canyon
Paris Hilton is an icon of the 00s and represents glamor in many ways, but not many know that Paris suffered in hell very similar to Ivy Ridge. She attended the Provo Canyon boarding school in Utah for 11 months as a teenager. Provo Canyon is marketed as an “intensive, psychiatric youth residential treatment center.” In an interview with Sky News, Paris said she was never a “bad kid” and was “just a normal 16-year-old girl.” She added:
“My parents were very strict. They didn’t want me going out and I rebelled and started sneaking out and getting bad grades. My parents spoke to a therapist who recommended these schools. “I later found out that this therapist and many others receive commissions sending children to these places.”
Paris explained how the kidnapping was that her parents paid for, she commented that the men arrived at 4:30 in the morning, and they put handcuffs on her, without having any idea what was happening. On several occasions, Paris Hilton has commented that this has been one of the most traumatic experiences of her entire life.
“It was like something out of a horror film,” she said. “It’s like they enjoyed abusing children.” She said: “I was physically, verbally, and emotionally abused. My peers around me were being sexually abused. I was strangled. I was hit. I was cut off from the outside world. I couldn’t tell my family because any time I tried to say anything on the phone they would hang up and I would get punished. “It was the most traumatizing experience I ever went through in my life, and to this day I have severe PTSD because of it.”
Conveniently, the school claimed that since all this had happened in the 2000s they could not do anything about how things were handled at that time, it is even annoying to hear it, but they say that they do not condone or allow any type of abuse.
“My parents thought I was going to a normal boarding school where I was going to be taken care of and healed, and instead so many terrible things happened that I didn’t even want to think about it again because it was way too painful, ” Paris Hilton told The Washington Post.
