US correspondent marthakelner. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player. On the driveway is a pink Bentley and a blue Porsche.
The grand entrance is flanked by a giant white model giraffe and a neon pink Chanel sign and the hallways are lined with framed prints of the woman herself.
We are led to a room upstairs with a full-sized bar and fluffy white chairs where even the cushions have prints of Hilton's face. It is a home befitting the original "It Girl" - a reality TV star who once traded off her ditzy persona. But this is a grown-up Hilton and we're here to discuss serious issues, specifically the two years she spent at boarding schools for so-called troubled teens.
In the early s, Hilton was one of the most photographed women in the world, the leader of a party set that included Britney Spears , Kim Kardashian and Lindsay Lohan. As a year-old she was sent to a series of residential facilities for so-called troubled teens , children with all manner of issues, from bad behaviour to addiction problems and mental illness.
My parents were very strict. They didn't want me going out and I rebelled and started sneaking out and getting bad grades. I later found out that this therapist and many others receive commissions sending children to these places. Like many children who attend these schools, Hilton's parents paid for secure transportation, in effect an authorised kidnapping, where strangers take teenagers from their beds in the middle of the night and bundle them into the back of waiting vans.
