Despite her own adolescent trauma, Paris Hilton supports the child abuse bill! Silence is not healing
The U.S. Senate voted in favor of the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act on Wednesday, December 11.
After supposedly experiencing trauma at a Utah boarding school as a teenager, Paris Hilton is still an advocate for victims of child abuse. Hilton, 42, posted an open letter to members of the US House of Representatives on Instagram on Monday, December 16.
Before they adjourn for Christmas, she urged them to make enacting the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Bill their top priority.“For most of my life, I carried a deep, unspoken pain,” the mom-of-two wrote in the letter.
“I thought if I stayed quiet, if I buried it far enough, maybe I could convince myself it didn’t happen. However, keeping quiet doesn’t make things better; it just shields the ones who did the harm.
Speaking up has «I was sent to youth residential treatment facilities as a teenager, where I suffered abuse that no child should ever have to go through,» she added.
«I was deprived of my dignity, subjected to physical restraint, sexual abuse, seclusion, and excessive medication.» I was informed that no one, not even my family, would believe me if I spoke up, that I was the issue, and that I didn’t matter.
I carried the burden of that trauma, the guilt, and the nightmares for years. It wasn’t until I found my voice that I began to heal.” The heiress added a caption that read, «Silence doesn’t heal — it protects the people that caused the harm,» alongside a brokenhearted emoji.
