Brooke Shields reveals details of sexual assault in new Sundance documentary: 'First time I've ever spoken about what happened' ' - Yahoo Entertainment

Brooke Shields is speaking retired for the archetypal clip astir a intersexual battle she experienced successful her aboriginal 20s. The histrion and exemplary shares her communicative successful Lana Wilson's caller two-part documentary Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, which premiered contiguous astatine the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Although Shields doesn't place her assaulter successful the film, she confirms it was idiosyncratic she knew and was affable with. "This is the archetypal clip I've ever spoken astir what happened," Shields says arsenic she tearfully recounts her story.

At the clip the battle occurred, the erstwhile kid prima was looking to re-start her acting vocation aft stepping distant from the spotlight to be Princeton University. But her re-entry into Hollywood proved much hard than expected. That was erstwhile her assaulter archetypal reached out. "I had heard determination was a movie being made, and I was successful consideration," Shields recalls successful the film. "It was the archetypal clip since assemblage that immoderate funny was benignant of expressed [in me]."

"We had a dinner," she continues. "I thought it was a enactment meeting. I had met this idiosyncratic before, and helium was ever bully to me." But the temper of the gathering abruptly changed midway done the meal, and she rapidly began looking to marque an exit. "I said, 'I person to get a cab,' and helium said, 'Come backmost to the edifice — I'll telephone you a cab.'"

Following him up to his edifice room, Shields remembers being near unsocial for a play of clip and feeling uncertain what to do. "I don't privation to spell implicit to the phone, due to the fact that it's not my phone," she says. "I don't privation to beryllium down, due to the fact that I'm not staying." While looking retired astatine the presumption of the formation with a brace of binoculars, her assaulter re-emerged. "The doorway opens, and the idiosyncratic comes retired naked," she says. "I enactment the binoculars backmost and helium was close connected me."

"It was similar wrestling," Shields describes, adding that she was excessively frightened of being choked oregon deed to deliberation of warring back. "I conscionable perfectly froze. I thought: 'My 1 'No' should person been enough. Stay live and get out.'"

During the assault, Shields says that she "disassociated" herself from her body, an acquisition she'd had earlier successful her vocation connected the acceptable of the 1981 Franco Zeffirelli movie Endless Love. While filming a emotion country for that romance, Shields — who was 15 erstwhile the movie was changeable — remembers the precocious Italian manager grabbing her toed and twisting it to seizure the look of "ecstasy" that helium wanted connected camera.

"It was much angst than thing due to the fact that helium was hurting me," Shields says successful Pretty Baby. "I didn't privation to look anserine our untalented, truthful I conscionable disassociated. It's similar you're [instantly] zooming out: seeing a situation, but you're not connected to it. You instantly become. a vapor of yourself astir thing that's happening." (Zeffirelli besides directed the 1968 movie mentation of Romeo & Juliet that featured a little nude country with the film's then-underage stars, Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting. Both actors are present suing Paramount implicit the scene.

When the battle ended, Shields recalls her still-nude attacker not adjacent acknowledging what happened. "The adjacent happening I know, the doorway is unfastened and the idiosyncratic says, 'I'll spot you around.' I conscionable said 'Yeah,' and walked out, went down successful the elevator and got my ain cab. I cried each the mode to my friend's apartment."

According to Shields, she aboriginal confronted her assaulter successful a missive alternatively than sermon the incidental publicly. "I said, 'That was a immense spot that was conscionable blown up. How situation you? I'm amended than that. I'm amended than you are. That's the mode I dealt with things. I wanted to erase the full happening from my caput and assemblage and conscionable support connected the way that I was on. The strategy had ne'er erstwhile travel to assistance me. So I conscionable had to get stronger connected my own."

Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter prior to the Sundance premiere of Pretty Baby, Shields said that she initially wasn't definite if she'd stock her communicative erstwhile she sat down to beryllium interviewed by Wilson for the film. "I had nary thought I was going to accidental it," she explained, adding that the tenor of the #MeToo times made her recognize present would beryllium the close clip to talk up. "I consciousness arsenic a parent of 2 young girls that I anticipation that conscionable by adjacent proceeding my incidental that I tin adhd myself to becoming an advocate. Because this is thing that does hap each day, and it should not beryllium happening. I felt that I had arrived astatine a spot wherever I could speech astir it. It’s taken maine a agelong time."

Premiering connected Hulu aboriginal this year, Pretty Baby features Shields reflecting connected galore of her high-profile relationships, including with Michael Jackson, who she says was ne'er a romanticist spouse contempt the aggravated nationalist scrutiny of their years-long friendship. "We met erstwhile I was 13 and we hung out," she recalls successful the film. "It was precise childlike."

"We were conscionable truly friends," Shields continues. "But helium ever wanted to beryllium benignant of seen with me. If helium would prime a restaurant, I would say, 'How did [the paparazzi] cognize we were here?' And past astatine 1 point, helium said that we should follow a kid and rise a kid together."

The histrion besides indicates that Jackson lied erstwhile helium told Oprah Winfrey that helium and Shields were dating during a celebrated TV interrogation successful 1993. "I called him [afterwards] and said, 'What are you doing?'" she remembers. "'I'm presently with my fellow successful New York City! What are you doing?' I yet mislaid interaction with him."

Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields premieres connected Hulu aboriginal this year.