Paris Hilton has shared her disturbing experiences in youth residential treatment facilities while advocating for foster youth and adopted children on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.

During a hearing in front of the House Ways and Means Committee, the celebrity and businesswoman presented a harrowing account of how she was torn away from family and sent to live in treatment centers for troubled youth alongside many children who she says were entirely forgotten by the child welfare system.

Noting how even her own wealthy and powerful family was deceived about her abuse at the hands of staff at the facilities, the heir to the Hilton hotel dynasty asked lawmakers to imagine the experience for youth placed by the state and dont have people regularly checking in on them.