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In 1997, Paris Hilton's parents paid strangers to abduct her from her bedroom. They wanted to cure her teenage rebellion. She had been sneaking out of the house and staying out late. Her parents hired a youth transport company to teach her discipline. At two in the morning, two large men entered her room. They grabbed her, pinned her arms, and dragged her out of the house. She screamed for her parents, but they let the men take her. They threw her into a van and drove her to Provo Canyon School in Utah. Her parents paid tens of thousands of dollars to lock her inside until she learned obedience. The facility was a psychological prison. If she cried or broke a rule, they dragged her by the hair into a bare concrete cell with no mattress. Nurses forced her to swallow psychotropic pills. If she spat them out, they held her down and injected her. Every phone call was monitored. Every letter was read by staff. If she complained, they hung up the phone and sent her to isolation. She stayed there for eleven months. She learned to fake compliance to survive. When her parents visited, staff stood behind her and watched her every word. She smiled and told them she was happy. They believed her. After she left, she built a global brand and became the most photographed woman on Earth. She never told anyone about Provo. The trauma gave her chronic nightmares and a lifelong fear of doctors and hospitals. In 2020, she finally broke her silence in a documentary. She showed her medical records and described the physical abuse.