Paris Hilton Revisits Childhood Trauma In This Is Paris Documentary Trailer

By Emily Lee

August 18, 2020

The first trailer for Paris Hilton's highly anticipated This Is Paris documentary has finally dropped. In the upcoming YouTube documentary, Paris will open up about creating the party-girl-heiress persona she's known for, as well as secrets she's kept hidden for years. "Sorry, I'm so used to, like, playing a character that it's, like, hard for me to be normal," Paris says in the beginning of the trailer. "I've just created this brand and this persona and this character, and I've been stuck with her ever since."

In addition to showing her fans who she is behind her famous persona, This Is Paris will see Paris opening up about a childhood trauma she's kept secret for her entire life. In the trailer, Paris' younger sister, Nicky Hilton, tells her "the mind may forget" trauma, but the body "never forgets. It's trapped in you and it can come out whenever."

While the trailer doesn't reveal the trauma Paris suffered in her childhood, both she and Nicky share snippets of what happened in the brief trailer. "Something happened in my childhood that I've never talked about with anyone," Paris says, while Nicky recalls hearing her sister "screaming bloody murder."

The trailer also hints that Paris not only kept this trauma secret from her fans, but from her parents, as well. In an emotional scene, Paris' mother, Kathy Hilton, can be seen crying while Paris says "I couldn't tell you guys because every time I tried, I'd get punished by them." Then she adds that she still has "nightmares about it. And the only thing that saved my sanity was thinking about who I wanted to become when I got out of there."

This is Paris premieres on YouTube on September 14. Will you be tuning in?

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