Paris Hilton has featured on a heartbreaking new Sia song called Fame Won’t Love You about the pain of being a celebrity.
The 43-year-old has always lived life in the glare of the public eye, from her teenage years as the wild child in a world-famous hotel family.
As she grew older, she and her friend Nicole Richie became pioneering reality stars on the runaway smash hit series The Simple Life.
Then when she was only 20 years old, she became a subject of notoriety and ridicule when her sex tape with her much older boyfriend Rick Salomon was leaked – an experience she has said gave her ‘post-traumatic stress disorder.’
Now, on her new song with Sia, Paris sings shatteringly about trying to ‘find validation for my futile existence’ in the ‘smiles’ of the audience, only to discover that ‘fame won’t love you like a mother, like a father should.’
Paris Hilton has featured on a heartbreaking new Sia song called Fame Won’t Love You about the pain of being a celebrity
Now, on her new song with Sia, Paris sings shatteringly about trying to ‘find validation for my futile existence’ in the ‘smiles’ of the audience
Promoting the song on her Instagram page this week, Paris revealed: ‘This song is a tribute to growing up in the spotlight.’
In a verse, she croons about how she ‘searched in your eyes for some glimmer of light, tap dancing for one million miles. I looked for the smiles, oh, hoping in them I’d find validation for my futile existence.’
Sia and Paris then sing together: ‘I am so thin-skinned. Don’t scratch the surface. Please let me live within, within this circus.’
The chorus, which both women sing together, begins: ‘Little dreams come crashing – let them wave in passing, ’cause fame won’t love you like a mother, like a father should. And you may wish for Oscars, Grammys and blockbusters, ’cause fame won’t love you like a brother, like a lover should.’
Fame Won’t Love You is one of the songs in Sia’s upcoming 10th studio album Reasonable Woman, which will be released in full on May 3.
Paris joins a formidable list of featured artists including Kylie Minogue and Chaka Khan, as well as such names as Jimmy Jolliff and Tierra Whack.
Meanwhile, Paris is also working on an album dedicated to the LGBTQ+ community, with Sia among the executive producers.
Paris rose to early notoriety as a tabloid figure when she was a teenager, infamous for sneaking out to nightclubs with a fast-living set.
The 43-year-old has always lived life in the glare of the public eye, from her teenage years as the wild child in a world-famous hotel family; pictured aged 24 in 2005
Promoting the song on her Instagram page this week, Paris revealed: ‘This song is a tribute to growing up in the spotlight’
In a verse, she croons about how she ‘searched in your eyes for some glimmer of light, tap dancing for one million miles
The chorus, which both women sing together, begins: ‘Little dreams come crashing – let them wave in passing, ’cause fame won’t love you like a mother, like a father should’
Sia and Paris then sing together: ‘I am so thin-skinned,’ begging: ‘Don’t scratch the surface,’ and adding: ‘Please let me live within, within this circus’
She has accused her parents Rick and Kathy Hilton of becoming so frustrated by her antics that they packed her off to a remedial boarding school, where she alleges she was subjected to physical and psychological abuse.
When she became an adult, she and her best friend Nicole Richie – the daughter of Lionel Richie – became two of the earliest reality stars.
Their show The Simple Life was a lighthearted romp about rich girls making fumbling attempts at doing normal, blue collar American jobs.
However, Paris was constantly trailed by her party girl reputation – and then traumatized by the leak of her sex tape in 2003.
She and her then-boyfriend Rick Salomon, who is 13 years her senior, starred in the tape which was leaked in 2003 and which Rick himself began to sell in 2004.
‘That will always be something that will hurt me for the rest of my life,’ she confessed during an interview with Vanity Fair three years ago.
She and Rick filmed the sex tape in 2001, and after a three-minute version of it was leaked by Kahatani Ltd. in 2003, they both sued the company.
Rick also released a longer version of the video, which he plugged it to NBC in February 2004: ‘It‘s 18 minutes of full color and I think everybody will enjoy it.’
When she became an adult, she and her best friend Nicole Richie – the daughter of Lionel Richie – became two of the earliest reality stars
Fame Won’t Love You is one of the songs in Sia’s upcoming 10th studio album Reasonable Woman, which will be released in full on May 3
That April, Rick struck a deal with the porn studio Red Light District Video to sell a 45-minute version with the name 1 Night In Paris.
At the time, it was reported Rick was paying Paris $400,000 plus a percentage of the backend profit, but her camp said she would give the money to charity.
Paris eventually found happiness with venture capitalist Carter Reum, whom she married in a three-day extravaganza in November 2021.
The pair have since welcomed two children into the world together – a son called Phoenix, 15 months, and a daughter called London, five months.
