Brooke Shields revealed in her new documentary, Pretty Baby, she was sexually assaulted shortly after graduating from faculty in 1987.
Detailing the rape for the primary time, Shields says within the doc that she was making an attempt to get again into Hollywood after attending Princeton and had dinner with a person she knew to speak about potential initiatives, in line with Entertainment Weekly.
The unidentified man then allegedly satisfied her to come back again to his resort and he would name her a cab house, Page Six studies.
“I go up to the hotel room, and he disappears for a while,” she stated, noting that he had a pair of binoculars she picked up and was watching volleyball gamers out the window when he returned to the room bare.
“I put the binoculars down and he’s right on me. Just like, was wrestling,” she stated, explaining that she didn’t struggle out of concern. “I was afraid I’d get choked out or something.”
The Blue Lagoon actress continued, “So, I didn’t fight that much. I didn’t. I just absolutely froze. 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’d practised that.”
When it was over, Shields, 57, stated she went down the elevator, bought a cab and “cried all the way to my friend’s apartment.”
Shields, who admittedly didn’t course of that she was raped for a very long time, stated she blamed herself for the assault.
“He said to me, ‘I can trust you and I can’t trust people.’ It’s so cliche, it’s practically pathetic,” she stated.
“I believed somehow I put out a message and that was how the message was received. I drank wine at dinner. I went up to the room. I just was so trusting.”
Years later, the Endless Love star says she wrote her attacker a letter confronting him about what he’d executed, which was ignored.
“I just threw my hands up and said, ‘You know what, I refuse to be a victim because this is something that happens no matter who you are and no matter what you think you’re prepared for or not,’” she stated.
“I wanted to erase the whole thing from my mind and body and just keep on the path I was on. The system had never once come to help me. So, I just had to get stronger on my own.”
Shields, who shares two daughters with husband Chris Henchy, has lengthy talked about being sexualised in Hollywood after she appeared nude within the 1987 movie Pretty Baby with 29-year-old Keith Carradine when she was simply 11 years previous.
At 15, after additionally having racy scenes in Blue Lagoon and Endless Love, Barbara Walters controversially requested Shields for her measurements in an interview and instructed her to face up.
“But I just behaved and just smiled,” Shields instructed Drew Barrymore in an interview final yr, including that she “felt so taken advantage of in so many ways.”
Pretty Baby premiered on the Sundance Film Festival on Friday and can be out there on Hulu later this yr.
This article initially appeared on Page Six and has been printed with permission.
