Get ready to see the Paris Hilton you never knew.
Paris Hilton is giving fans a look behind her party girl persona in her upcoming YouTube documentary series, This Is Paris.
The DJ and heiress dropped the trailer for her docuseries, where she gets real about her life beyond the cameras.
“I’ve just created this brand and this persona and this character, and I’ve been stuck with her ever since,” she says in the video.
In one clip, she admits, “Sorry, I’m so used to, like, playing a character that it’s, like, hard for me to be normal.”
The trailer also touched on some of her struggles growing up.
“They say trauma, the mind may forget but the body never forgets. It’s trapped in you and it can come out whenever,” her younger sister, Nicky Hilton said in the trailer.
She and her family were also filmed discussing the issue.
“Something happened in my childhood that I’ve never talked about with anyone,” Paris says in the clip.
“I just heard screaming bloody murder,” Nicky says.
A snippet also showed her talking to her mom, Kathy Hilton, who had her face buried in her hands as she cried.
“But I couldn’t tell you guys because every time I tried, I’d get punished by them,” a visibly emotional Paris says. “I still have nightmares about it. And the only thing that saved my sanity was thinking about who I wanted to become when I got out of there.”
While they didn’t go into detail about what exactly it was that Paris went through, at one point in the trailer, during one of Paris’ DJ gigs, a man tried to touch her and she angrily pulls away, shouting at him.
Paris has opened up about previous traumas that have affected her long term – including the sex tape that was released against her will back in 2003.
I didn’t want to be known as that. And now when people look at me they think that I’m something I’m not, just because of one incident, one night with someone who I was in love with,” she told CNN in 2011. “People assume ‘Oh, she’s a slut’ just because of one thing that happened to me, and it’s hard because I’ll have to live with that the rest of my life and explain it to my children. It’s something that’s changed my life forever, and I’ll never be able to erase it.”
This Is Paris will debut on YouTube on September 14.
