Brooke Shields

Brooke Shields did not name her alleged attacker, but she shared details of the rape, which she says occurred shortly after she graduated from Princeton ...

“She asked me what my measurements were and asked me to stand up,” Shields said on the show. “I think it just has different forms, and it’s how you survive it and whether you choose to be victimized by it. Even when her own security specialist reportedly told her, “That’s rape,” she said she replied, “I’m not willing to believe that.” “And I stand up, and she was like comparing herself to this little girl. “He said, ‘Come back to the hotel, and I’ll call a cab,'” Shields recounted. Shields’ documentary explores the sexualization she faced throughout her prolific modeling and acting career. “And I put the binoculars down, and he’s right on me. “God knows I knew how to be disassociated from my body. She recalls meeting the man for dinner to discuss career opportunities. [In the two-part film](https://ew.com/movies/pretty-baby-documentary-brooke-shields-reveals-she-was-raped/), which premiered Friday at the Sundance Film Festival, Shields, 57, did not name her alleged attacker, but she shared details of the assault, which she says occurred shortly after she graduated from Princeton University in 1987. “I think it’s been done since the dawn of time, and I think it’s going to keep going on,” she told Just like, was wrestling.”

The Associated Press reported that in “Pretty Baby,” which made its Sundance Film Festival debut on Jan. 20, Shields revealed that she was a victim of sexual ...

“I was a very protected, sequestered, young woman in a bubble. Shields continued, adding, “I wanted to erase the whole thing from my mind and body, and just keep on the path I was on. In the documentary of the same name, she recalled her on-set experience on “The Blue Lagoon," saying they “wanted to sell my actual sexual awakening,” according to Rolling Stone. “I was a kid, and where I was, I was naive,” she added. The film is about two teenagers who fall in love on a deserted island. It has taken me many years of therapy to even be able to talk about it,” she explained, adding that society today has created a more open environment to discuss these topics. So, I just had to get stronger on my own.” One night, she had gone to dinner to meet with a professional connection to talk about work, according to the AP story. Because this is something that does happen every day, and it should not be happening.” 20, Shields revealed that she was a victim of sexual assault after she graduated from Princeton University in 1987. And I just thought, ‘Stay alive, and get out.’ And I just shut it out. And god knows I knew how to be disassociated from my body.

Brooke Shields said it took her "many years of therapy" to be able to talk publicly about her sexual assault, she told The Hollywood Reporter.

In a powerful Sundance documentary, actress Brooke Shields reveals she was raped by a Hollywood Insider and shared this is the 'first time I've opened up ...

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter before the premiere of Pretty Baby at Sundance, Shields shared, "I had no idea I was going to say it," she explained, "I feel as a mother of two young girls that I hope that just by even hearing my incident that I can add myself to becoming an advocate. She shared, "I called him [afterwards] and said, 'What are you doing?'" she added. She added, "The next thing I know, the door is open and the person says, 'I'll see you around.' I just said 'Yeah,' and walked out, went down in the elevator and got my own cab. She continued, "While looking out at the view of the beach with a pair of binoculars” her assaulter emerged. She describes, "It was like wrestling." She explained her comeback to Hollywood was not easy at all and mentioned it was right then her assaulter reached her for the very first time and shared, She also mentioned in Pretty Baby "I didn't want to appear stupid or untalented, so I just disassociated. She had had a similar experience in 1981 on the sets of Franco Zeffirelli’s film titled Endless Love. It was the first time since college that any interested was sort of expressed [in me]." "We had a dinner," Shields continues. Although the actress has finally decided to open up about the tragic incident, she is still not ready to identify her assaulter in the documentary. [Sundance Film Festival](https://www.pinkvilla.com/entertainment/hollywood/dakota-johnson-makes-a-cannibalism-joke-and-shocks-the-audience-1206799), Pretty Baby actress Brooke Shields finally opened up about the sexual assault she encountered in her early 20s.

The Hollywood actress says she was the victim of a sexual assault in a new documentary.

But there is a cultural context that she helps craft in the film that is not in the memoirs. There are things in the memoirs that aren’t in the film. “I started to think about Brooke at age 12 in that situation and about how all girls start to form their own identity.” “Teri became the scapegoat when much bigger questions should have been asked of the people who really had power and of everyone watching it.” “But I was curious at the same time.” Brooke Shields reveals that she was the victim of a sexual assault in a new documentary about her life that premiered Friday afternoon at the Sundance Film Festival.

Brooke Shields revealed in her new documentary, "Pretty Baby," that she was sexually assaulted shortly after graduating from college in 1987.

“I wanted to erase the whole thing from my mind and body and just keep on the path I was on. “I believed somehow I put out a message and that was how the message was received. “He said to me, ‘I can trust you and I can’t trust people.’ It’s so cliché, it’s practically pathetic,” she said. Just like, was wrestling,” she said, explaining that she didn’t fight out of fear. I didn’t. “I put the binoculars down and he’s right on me.

Brooke Shields is the talk of Sundance thanks to Lana Wilson's explosive documentary “Pretty Baby,” which made various headlines after its world premiere ...

Variety film critic Owen Gleiberman called the documentary “fascinating” in [his review,](https://variety.com/2023/film/news/pretty-baby-brooke-shields-review-1235496742/) adding, “Lana Wilson’s accomplished film traces how Brooke Shields’ career was at the forefront of our culture’s sexualization of girls, and shows what it was like for her to live a life inside that image.” When Shields married tennis star Andre Aggasi in 1999, a man she called as “controlling” as her own mother, she assembled a team to pack and empty the office she shared with Teri over a weekend (including archives of her iconic clothes and magazine covers). [Brooke Shields](https://variety.com/t/brooke-shields/) is the talk of Sundance thanks to Lana Wilson’s explosive documentary “Pretty Baby,” which [made various headlines](https://variety.com/2023/film/news/pretty-baby-brooke-shields-review-1235496742/) after its world premiere due to new revelations from Shields regarding abuse, as well as her candor discussing her “ridiculous” battle against Tom Cruise over postpartum depression.

Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields” -- which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival -- reveals the actress was objectified and mistreated by Hollywood and the ...

“And that just seared me.” “The door opens, and the person comes out naked,” she said. “I cried all the way to my friend’s apartment.” “We had dinner and I thought it was a work meeting,” she said. “He was hurting me.” “It was a survival technique.”

Brooke Shields looked stylish and smart on Saturday as she attended Variety Sundance Studio presented by Audible. She wore a structured, cropped black ...

Classic: The stunner wore a go-to staple of hers, a pair of thinly-rimmed aviator eyeglasses, which nicely complemented her look Her look: The blonde Nightcap star wore a chunky turtleneck sweater with a blended fabric The stunner wore a go-to staple of hers, a pair of thinly-rimmed aviator eyeglasses, which nicely complemented her look.

Actress Brooke Shields got a standing ovation Friday at the Sundance Film Festival following the premiere of a new documentary in which she alleges she was ...

"They wanted to make it a reality show," she says in the documentary. She was making her first real attempt to get back in front of the camera when the sexual assault happened, she says. "I just absolutely froze," she says in the film. I just cried all the way to my friend's apartment." I went down in the elevator, and I got my own cab. "He said, 'Come back to the hotel and I'll call a cab.' And I go up to the hotel room, and he disappears for awhile. The door opens, the person comes out naked, and I've got the binoculars and I'm like, 'S....' And I put the binoculars down and he's right on me. "I thought it was a work meeting. "I thought one 'no' should've been enough, and I just thought, 'Stay alive and get out,' and I just shut it out. God knows I knew how to be disassociated from my body. I had met this person before, and he was always nice to me," Shields says in the film, according to [Brooke Shields](https://www.upi.com/topic/Brooke_Shields/) got a standing ovation Friday at the Sundance Film Festival following the premiere of a new documentary in which she alleges she was raped by an unnamed Hollywood figure.

Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields included digs at Tom Cruise's response to postpartum depression and exploitative male auteurs. Brooke Shields in The Blue Lagoon ...

Focusing on Shields's op-ed in response to Cruise’s criticisms of antidepressants, The Eccles Theater audience reportedly erupted as Shields’ New York Times headline “What Tom Cruise Doesn’t Know About Estrogen” flashed across the screen. Appearances range from Drew Barrymore’s discussion of the pressures of childhood acting and darker implications to feminist cultural historical commentary on the distinct advent of girls’ sexualization in the 70s. Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields follows Shields through her increasing sexualization in early television commercial work, as well as her blowout role as a 12-year-old in Pretty Baby, which the documentaries title is based on.

Brooke Shields said it took her "many years of therapy" to be able to talk publicly about her sexual assault, she told The Hollywood Reporter.

"He said, 'come back to the hotel and I'll call a cab'," Shields says in the film. "It has taken me many years of therapy to even be able to talk about it," she said. I just cried all the way to my friend's apartment." It's taken me a long time." I went down in the elevator, and I got my own cab. According to Entertainment Weekly, Shields said the sexual assault happened shortly after she graduated from Princeton University in 1987.

Brooke Shields looked stylish and smart on Saturday as she attended Variety Sundance Studio presented by Audible. She wore a structured, cropped black ...

Classic: The stunner wore a go-to staple of hers, a pair of thinly-rimmed aviator eyeglasses, which nicely complemented her look Her look: The blonde Nightcap star wore a chunky turtleneck sweater with a blended fabric The stunner wore a go-to staple of hers, a pair of thinly-rimmed aviator eyeglasses, which nicely complemented her look.

In the documentary, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday, Shields told of being attacked shortly after graduating from Princeton in 1987.

I went up to the room. I just was so trusting.' I just absolutely froze. She said she left the hotel after the attack, got in a cab and 'cried all the way to my friend's apartment.' She said there was a pair of binoculars in the room, and she picked them up to watch some volleyball players out of the window. - The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday, and revealed that Shields was raped by a man after a meeting in around 1987