Paris Hilton was in Australia when her manager called to say a 37-second video clip of the then 19-year-old having sex was circulating on the internet. Now Hilton writes that she gave in to the pressure while filming the infamous sex tape with then-boyfriend Rick Salomon. he was 31
In an excerpt from Paris: The Memoir, the heiress reveals details about what led to the 2003 sex tape.
After her boyfriend, the American poker player Salomon, kept coming up with the idea of filming the two having sex, Hilton finally gave in.
“I can’t remember the night he wanted to film us making love,” she wrote in an excerpt published by the London Times.
“He had often said it was something he had done to other women, but it made me feel weird and uncomfortable. I always told him, ‘I can’t do it. It’s too embarrassing.'”
“He kept insisting,” she continued. “I kept finding excuses.”
He promised her that the tape would be just for the two of them, that no one would ever see it.
“And then he told me that if I didn’t, he could easily find someone who would, and it was the worst thing I could imagine – to be abandoned by this grown man because he was a stupid child.” I don’t know how to play adult games.”
Hilton wrote in her memoir that she wants to “live in a sensual way” and experience intimacy. She has struggled with her sexuality since she was abused as a young teenager and found it difficult to enjoy sex, to feel comfortable in her own skin.
“I couldn’t muster the confidence it took to make a videotape like this,” she wrote. “I had to get drunk. Quaaludes helped. But I did it. I have to own it. I knew what he wanted and I went for it.”
It wasn’t until years later that the “Stars Are Blind” singer faced the aftermath of the reconciliation of “Scum”, as Salomon liked to be called. The leaked clip of That Night With Salomon was all over the place, and it was rumored that the clip was essentially the trailer for an upcoming full-length release.
“The world considers me a sex symbol and that’s why I’m here because symbol literally means icon,” she wrote. “But when people saw this sex tape, they didn’t say ‘icon,’ they said ‘slut.’ They said ‘w—.’
“I felt like my life was over, and in many ways it was,” she continued. “Certainly the career I envisioned was no longer possible.”
The Simple Life star also insisted she would never be involved in the production and distribution of an “amateur teen porn video”, before adding that the exposure would have been better if it had been her.
Source: LA Times