HEALTHParis Jackson Reveals Utah Treatment Facility Left Her With ‘More PTSD’ After Suicide Attempt at 15: ‘It’s Rough’
Paris Jackson opened up about about her traumatic experience at a Utah treatment facility.
Aug. 18 2026, Published 3:01 a.m. ET
Paris Jackson joined a Utah treatment facility to heal herself, but ended up with even more PTSD than before.
Sharing her experience on the latest episode of "On Purpose with Jay Shetty," she said, "I can’t trust anybody here because anything you say could put you on the lowest level, and you can’t really call your family and tell them because they’re listening."
"They will call your family and be like, ‘Don’t listen to her. She’s lying to you.’ And then you get a consequence... and you’re on meds, and you’re zombie-d out, and it’s rough," she continued.
Paris Jackson Joined the Treatment Center After Suicide Attempt
Paris Jackson said an Utah treatment facility left her with even more PTSD than she had before.
Apparently, Jackson was sent to the treatment center after a suicide attempt when she was 15.
When asked about the facilities of that center, she said, "Each one was different. I know some people that have been to the ones that were not as bad or worse."
Talking about her own personal experience, she said, "I definitely left with more PTSD than I went in there with and had nightmares for two or three years about going back after I finally left because I was there for a couple of months."
Paris Jackson Called Herself 'One of the Lucky Ones' at the Facility
Paris Jackson said she was sent to the facility after her suicide attempt at 15.
While her tenure there was nothing short of traumatic, Jackson claimed she was "one of the lucky ones" at the facility who didn't experience "physical or sexual abuse."
She did, however, experience other forms of abuse.
"There was definitely a lot of psychological, emotional, spiritual abuse that happened there. Like pitting the clients against each other," she continued, explaining that she felt she couldn't trust even her roommate or therapist.
She concluded, "You have to learn how to kind of play the game if you want to get out."
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Jackson Also Opened Up About Her Suicide Attempt
Paris Jackson said she experienced different forms of abuse at the Utah treatment facility.
Previously, in a 2017 interview with Rolling Stone, the 38-year-old model-actress opened up about her suicide attempt as a teenager, sharing that it was a result of "self-hatred" and "low self-esteem."
"Thinking that I couldn’t do anything right, not thinking I was worthy of living anymore," she said at the time.
Paris Jackson said her suicide attempt as a teenager was a result of 'self-hatred' and 'low self-esteem.'
She also got candid about spending time at a therapeutic school in Utah back then.
Saying "it was great for me," the then-teenager Jackson told the outlet, "I’m a completely different person."
"I was crazy. I was actually crazy. I was going through a lot of, like, teen angst. And I was also dealing with my depression and my anxiety without any help," she added.
