Paris Hilton has revisited some of the most painful parts of her story in her new documentary, “Infinite Icon: A Visual Memoir,” speaking about the sex tape leak that followed her for years. She opened up about how it changed the way strangers treated her the moment she walked into a room. Now, however, it is clear that the world can talk, but she decides what comes next.
Paris Hilton says sex tape leak ‘crushed’ her but she smiled and ‘kept going’
According to The Sun, Paris Hilton becomes emotional in her documentary as she reflects on her sex tape leak with ex-boyfriend Rick Salomon in 2004.
She called it “one of the most painful experiences I have been through.” Hilton added, “I was terrified. Is this going to ruin everything I worked so hard for?,” while also explaining how the scandal hit her sense of who she wanted to be.
In the documentary, Hilton reportedly confessed, “I had always looked up to Princess Diana and Grace Kelly and all these elegant women, and I felt like I could never be like these women as no one would see me like that because of what he did to me.” She admitted, “I thought life was over and I didn’t want to show my face again.”
But Hilton says she kept moving through the hurt. She reportedly said, “My family told me not to give it oxygen, so I didn’t. I smiled and I kept going.” However, it didn’t stop the humiliation that followed her into her everyday life.
Hilton recalled, “I’d walk into a room and hear whispers,” and people would even call her names. She said, “The shame didn’t even belong to me, but I carried it anyway,” adding that she wanted to disappear at times to avoid facing “the noise.”
Still, she said she chose herself. As Paris Hilton says in her documentary, she “refused to let anyone else take away my power, my dreams,” adding, “So what did I do? I kept dancing.”
