Paris Hilton, the American media personality, opened up to New York Times in a special interview published on the occasion of World Mental Health day, that she was sexually abused in the 1990s when she was admitted at Provo Canyon School, in Utah. 

The incident happened when Hilton was a teenager and was sent to the therapeutic boarding school, after being diagnosed with mental health issues. She said that the staff members at the facility performed a cervical examination on her in a private room in the middle of the night.

“This was a recurring experience not only for me but for other #survivors,” Hilton said on Twitter, sharing the interview. “I was violated & I am crying as I type this because no one, especially a child, should be sexually abused. My childhood was stolen from me & it kills me this is still happening to other innocent children.”

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Hilton’s experience adds to several other survivors’ experience of being admitted to facilities owned by Universal Health Services, the company which owns the Provo Canyon School.

Here’s a look at five other celebrities who opened up about sexual abuse in the past.

1. Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga said that she was raped when she was 19 years old during a TimesTalk panel conversation, seven years after the incident happened. She explained how survivors of trauma re-experience the whole episode for several years after it, which results in not only mental and emotional pain but also physical pain.

2. Oprah Winfrey

TV mogul Oprah Winfrey opened up about being sexually abused by her 19-year-old cousin when she was between 9 to 12 years of age. She also claimed that she was repeatedly abused sexually by a boyfriend of her mother when she was still a teenager.

3. Madonna

 Madonna opened up about being sexually assaulted when she moved to New York for the first time in 1978. The revelations were made on The Howard Stern Show while she was promoting her album Rebel Heart in 2015. At the time of the incident, the Queen of Pop was only 19 years old. On being asked why she did not report the incident to the police, Madonna said, “You’ve already been violated. It’s just not worth it. It’s too much humiliation.”

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4. Queen Latifah

Queen Latifa told Essence Magazine back in 20019 that she suffered sexual abuse as a child. She said that she never told anyone about it before opening up in the magazine interview. However, the experience made her keep people at “arm’s length” and made her delay her marriage as it led to severe commitment issues for her.

5. Ashley Judd

Ashley Judd told David Kessler in his flagship podcast that she was raped by a man in 1999. She told in the podcast that she had a “retroactive- justice conversation” with the man later. Judd said that the most critical part of her experience was that she was already an “adult feminist woman” when the incident happened, and “that this could happen under these circumstances was unconscionable [and] unforeseen.”