Actress Brooke Shields reveals she was raped as a young actress taking her first steps in Hollywood, in new documentary about her life cute babywhich just premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah.
The former supermodel born in Manhattan she did not reveal the identity of her rapistbut he said he saw the man, whom he already knew, shortly after he graduated from college, thinking he was at a business meeting for a new film.
The man took her to her hotel and told her he would call a taxi from her room. Instead, he went to the bathroom before going out naked and raping her.
“It was like a fight… I was afraid I was going to choke or something,” Shields recalled in the documentary. Pretty BabyBrooke Shieldsbrand new premiere at Sundance Film Festival
“I didn’t even fight, I didn’t, I just said to myself ‘stay alive and then run away’,” he added. “I was completely petrified”
After the attack, Brooke Shields recalls phoning a friend who worked in security, Gavin de Becker, who said: “It’s rape,” to which she replied, “I’m not ready to believe it.”
Until now, the 57-year-old actress had never spoken publicly about his attack
The reveal is one of many shocking moments in the film, which will premiere on streaming platform Hulu in two parts.
The first part examines the intense sexualization Shields experienced as a childincluding a highly controversial nude photoshoot when she was just 10 years old
Another controversial moment was her appearance as a child prostitute in the film cute baby a year later. It also shows a young Brooke Shields facing lewd questions from much older men on talk shows about her roles. in movies like The Blue Lagoon or infinite loveand the controversial series of Calvin Klein commercials in which he appeared
The documentary, which was received with a standing ovation at the festival, also chronicles the media’s later obsession with her virginity, her mother’s alcoholism and her first marriage to tennis star Andre Agassi
“My personal message is to persevere and don’t allow yourself to be a victim in the eyes of any company or industry”he said ahead of the film’s premiere at the Utah, US-West festival running through January 29, face-to-face for the first time in three years over Covid-19
“I’m proud of how I’ve continued to learn, grow, work and love what I do”added
Several of her famous friends are interviewed in the documentary, including Lionel Richie, Laura Linney and Drew Barrymore.
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