Paris Hilton recently opened up about her controversial 2004 NSFW tape, which she shot with her then-boyfriend, Rick Salomon. In a new interview, she said that the tape would be “illegal” in the current social climate and labeled the reactions to it “misogynistic.” Notably, Hilton was 19 years old at the time of the tape’s filming.
Paris Hilton comments on her 2004 NSFW tape
In a new interview, Paris Hilton called her NSFW tape, which her boyfriend, Salomon, sold without her consent, “painful and humiliating.” Further, she called the reactions to the tape “misogynistic.”
“So it was obviously meeting like a completely wrong person at the wrong time,” Hilton told The Times. “I just felt like the world judged me from that point on.”
The American socialite found solace in the fact that people now see the tape’s non-consensual release as revenge p**n offense. “Like, that would be illegal today,” she explained. “People realise just how wrong it was. And that has also been healing for me, for people to be, like, wow, Paris was just a teenage girl being taken advantage of by this older guy.”
Hilton previously opened up about the tape, two years earlier. In an excerpt from her memoir, published by The Times, she revealed that she felt “weird and uncomfortable” about doing it, and that Salomon pressured her. She also said that he promised her no one else would see the tape but themselves. Hilton also recalled him telling her that if she didn’t do it, he would get someone else, which terrified her, as she didn’t want to be “dumped.”
Further, she admitted that she wanted to at the time “be alive in a sensual way.” “I wanted to feel like a woman who’s comfortable in her own skin,” she continued. “I was struggling to understand my sexuality; there’s no way I could have explained it to anyone else. I had no language for it. I’d never heard the word asexual.”
Four years earlier, she told Vanity Fair’s Inside the Hive that discussing the tape gave her “post-traumatic stress disorder.” She also said that the tape would forever “hurt” her for the rest of her life.
