The former Hollywood supermodel didn’t reveal the identification of her attacker however says she met with the person – somebody she already knew – quickly after she graduated school, believing it was a piece assembly to debate casting her in a brand new film.
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Brooke Shields has revealed that she was raped as a younger Hollywood actress in new documentary “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields,” which premiered on the Sundance movie competition.
The former supermodel didn’t reveal the identification of her attacker, however stated she met with the person – somebody she already knew – quickly after she graduated school, believing it was a piece assembly to debate casting her in a brand new film.
He took her again to his resort, claiming he would name her a taxi from his room. He as a substitute disappeared to the lavatory earlier than returning bare and assaulting her, she stated.
“It was like wrestling … I was afraid I could get choked out or something,” Shields recalled within the documentary that premiered on Friday.
“I didn’t fight that much. I didn’t. I just absolutely froze. I thought that my one ‘no’ should have been enough. And I just thought ‘stay alive and get out.”
After the incident, Shields recalled phoning her good friend and safety head Gavin de Becker, who advised her: “That’s rape.”
She replied “I’m not willing to believe that,” and has not spoken of the incident publicly till now.
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Exploitation after early age fame
The revelation – which echoes #MeToo revelations by distinguished and lesser-known Hollywood actresses in recent times – is considered one of a number of surprising moments within the movie, which might be launched on the Hulu streaming platform in two elements.
Part one examines the extraordinary sexualisation Shields skilled as a younger woman, together with a provocative nude photoshoot at age 10, and her look as a baby prostitute within the movie “Pretty Baby” at age 11.
The documentary exhibits a younger Shields being requested lascivious questions by a lot older male chat present hosts about her roles in films akin to “Blue Lagoon” and “Endless Love,” and the collection of controversial Calvin Klein denims commercials she starred in.
After experiencing international fame as an adolescent, Shields attended college at Princeton, and initially struggled to search out appearing roles once more after she graduated – resulting in the assembly along with her alleged rapist.
The film, which earned Shields a standing ovation at its Sundance premiere, additionally chronicles the media’s later obsession along with her virginity, her mom’s alcoholism, and her first marriage to tennis star Andre Agassi.
It options a number of of Shields’ well-known pals together with Lionel Richie, Laura Linney and Drew Barrymore.
Shields, 57, stated it “felt like the right time in my life” to take part in a documentary, however that she by no means needed to “become shut down.”
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