In his new memoir, Paris Hilton is dishing dirt and contemplating his past, both good and bad.
In Paris: The Memoir, the Hilton heiress said she was groomed by her Grade 8 teacher when she was just 14 years old. He said the incident happened at his Catholic school with a “handsome young teacher” who had a “very Abercrombie” image.
“Everyone loved her, including the nuns,” Hilton, 42, wrote.
Hilton said the inappropriate relationship with her teacher — identified in the book by the moniker “Mr. Abercrombie” — began when she told Hilton she had reciprocated her crush.
“He made me feel noticed in an important, grown-up way,” Hilton reflects. “He flattered and teased me and said that all the other girls were talking about me behind my back because they were jealous.”
‘Paris: The Memoir’.
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Hilton said the teacher asked for her personal phone number and would call her almost every night.
“We talked for hours about how mature, beautiful, and intelligent I was, how sensual, misunderstood, and special I was,” she wrote.
Hilton said that Mr. Abercrombie “reminded” her of other famous relationships with large age gaps, including Princess Diana, who is 13 years younger than then-Prince Charles, and Priscilla Presley, who is 10 years younger to Elvis Presley.
Hilton, who just became a mother via surrogate, saying at the time she didn’t feel her teacher was manipulating her — instead, she felt “worshipped.”
“The focus was on my intoxicating beauty rather than his inappropriate behavior,” she wrote.
The situation escalated when Hilton said the teacher asked to visit her house when her parents were away. When 14-year-old Hilton saw the teacher’s car idling in his driveway, he said he got into the passenger’s seat and kissed her.
As the kiss “seemed to evolve into something,” Hilton said her parents went home.
Hilton said the teacher drove home with her still in the car. He said his parents, Rick and Kathy Hilton, followed suit until Mr. Abercrombie Hilton in his home.
“I don’t know where he would have taken it if my parents hadn’t pulled into the driveway,” he wrote.
Hilton tried to lie to her parents about the incident, but it was no use. He said the incident served as a catalyst for him to be sent to live with his grandmother in Palm Springs, Calif.
He wrote that it took “decades” before he could say the word “pedophile.”
“Every 8th grade girl is a treasure, like a priceless work of art, so you’d think every 8th grade teacher would be like a security guard at an art gallery,” wrote by Hilton. “He was not there to enjoy the beauty; he is there to protect it. He’s there to enforce the rules, and Rule Number One is: DO. NO. TOUCH. Hide your fingers, lips, and person in masterpieces.”
The memoir sees Hilton touch on highly personal moments throughout her life and career, including the release of her unauthorized sex tape, allegedly cornered by former film producer and convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein and falsely telling the public that he voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 election. (Hilton said the truth was “even worse: I didn’t vote.”)
Paris: The Memoir was released on March 14.
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