Brooke Shields claims she was sexually assaulted in her 20s in new documentary: 'I just shut it out' - Fox News

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Brooke Shields spoke for the archetypal clip astir being sexually assaulted successful a caller documentary, "Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields."

Shields, present 57, claimed the unwanted intersexual brushwood took spot successful her 20s aft she met with an unnamed Hollywood nonrecreational to sermon an upcoming movie opportunity. Her documentary premiered astatine the Sundance Film Festival connected Friday.

"I thought it was a enactment meeting," Shields explained successful the documentary, via USA Today. "I had met this idiosyncratic before, and helium was ever bully to me."

After the 2 shared a meal, Shields noted "his behaviour was changing and determination was nary speech astir the movie."

Brooke Shields claimed she was sexually assaulted successful her 20s. The histrion spoke astir the unwanted intersexual brushwood for the archetypal clip successful a caller documentary. (Photo by Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)

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Brooke Shields attends a premiere successful her 20s. (Photo by Robin Platzer/IMAGES/Getty Images)

Shields tried to telephone a cab from the restaurant, but the unnamed antheral insisted helium telephone her 1 from his hotel.

"I spell up to his edifice room, and helium disappears for a while," the exemplary recalled.

Shields claims the antheral yet reemerged – bare – and proceeded to sexually battle her.

"It was similar wrestling," Shields remembered. "I was acrophobic I would get choked retired oregon something, I didn't know. I played the country retired successful my head, truthful I didn't combat that much. ... I conscionable perfectly froze. I conscionable thought, ‘Stay live and get out.’"

"I conscionable unopen it out. And God knows I knew however to beryllium dissociated from my body. I practiced that," she said, referring to her quality to dissociate from her assemblage portion modeling.

The "Suddenly Susan" histrion did archer her information main astir the brushwood astatine the time.

"I was aggravated to perceive her story," Gavin de Becker said successful the documentary. "That's my small sister and I wanted her to cognize she didn't bash thing wrong."

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Brooke Shields opened up astir her vocation successful the caller documentary, "Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields." (STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Shields was not definite she was going to stock the brushwood successful the documentary.

"I did not cognize if oregon erstwhile oregon if astatine each I was ever going to bring this up," she told The Hollywood Reporter. "It has taken maine galore years of therapy to adjacent beryllium capable to speech astir it. I decidedly person worked precise hard done it, and I've learned to process it."

"And I've travel to a place, and we've travel to a clip successful our society, wherever we tin speech astir these things overmuch much openly," she continued. "I had nary thought I was going to accidental it."

Shields went connected to explicate wherefore she wanted to speech astir it now.

"Where I was coming from, it was arsenic a woman, arsenic a mother, arsenic idiosyncratic who has lived with the guilt of this for truthful agelong and had continuously tried to larn however to process it," she said.

"I wanted to stock this communicative with different men and women who mightiness perchance beryllium struggling oregon trying to past this, hoping that astatine slightest if I stock the incidental and the communicative past it helps others to enactment done immoderate they request to enactment through. I'm hoping to beryllium that benignant of an advocate," she added.

Brooke Shields attends the 2023 Sundance Film Festival for the "Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields" premiere connected Jan. 20 successful Park City, Utah. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images)

The two-part documentary "Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields" volition premiere astatine a aboriginal day connected the streaming level Hulu.

The movie follows Shields' full career and the fistful of controversies that occurred portion she acted and modeled astatine a young age.

There was backlash implicit Shields' Calvin Klein jeans campaign, her relation arsenic a kid prostitute astatine the property of 11 and the enactment country she filmed for "Endless Love" astatine the property of 16. In 1981, Shields mislaid a suit against lensman Garry Gross. He had photographed Shields nude astatine the property of 10 and sold the pictures later.