Brooke Shields reveals she was raped shortly after college in 'Pretty Baby' documentary - Entertainment Weekly News

Brooke Shields has ne'er shied distant from talking astir the ways she was sexualized arsenic a kid prima successful Hollywood. But present the histrion is revealing that she was raped arsenic a young adult.

In caller documentary Pretty Baby, which premiered astatine the Sundance Film Festival connected Friday, Shields did not sanction her attacker but elaborate the events of a intersexual battle that occurred soon aft she graduated assemblage astatine Princeton, during a play wherever she was struggling to find enactment aft her aboriginal success. Shields met with the antheral successful question for dinner, ostensibly to sermon work. She past returned to his edifice country to hold to telephone a taxi.

"He said, 'Come backmost to the edifice and I'll telephone a cab,'" Shields explains successful the film. "And I spell up to the edifice room, and helium disappears for awhile."

Shields, feeling uncomfortable successful a country that wasn't hers, decided to usage binoculars the antheral had near successful the country and watched immoderate volleyball players retired the window. "The doorway opens, the idiosyncratic comes retired naked, and I've got the binoculars and I'm like, 'S---,'" she continues. "And I enactment the binoculars down and he's close connected me. Just like, was wrestling."

Continuing with her account, Shields explained that she didn't effort to tally distant due to the fact that she feared it would provoke further carnal violence. "I was acrophobic I'd get choked retired oregon something," she says. "So I didn't combat that much. I didn't. I conscionable perfectly froze. I thought 1 'No' should've been enough, and I conscionable thought, 'Stay live and get out,' and I conscionable unopen it out. God knows I knew however to beryllium disassociated from my body. I'd practiced that.... I went down successful the elevator, and I got my ain cab. I conscionable cried each the mode to my friend's apartment."

The histrion didn't adjacent process the acquisition arsenic a intersexual battle for a agelong time. Even erstwhile it was pointed retired to her by her information specializer Gavin de Becker. "He said, 'That's rape.' And I said, 'I'm not consenting to judge that,'" she says.

Shields had already been sexually objectified by Hollywood, appearing nude and kissing a 29-year-old Keith Carradine successful the 1978 movie Pretty Baby (which lends its rubric to the documentary) erstwhile she was lone 11-years-old. At 15, she appeared successful 2 much films, Blue Lagoon and Endless Love, that included enactment and nudity, arsenic good arsenic her iconic Calvin Klein jean ads that touted, "Nothing comes betwixt maine and my Calvins."

Even with that history, Shields couldn't assistance but consciousness that she was culpable successful immoderate mode for her ain assault. "That was what I had to bash to my brain," she admits. "He said to me, 'I tin spot you and I can't spot people.' It's truthful cliché, it's practically pathetic. I believed someway I enactment retired a connection and that was however the connection was received. I drank vino astatine dinner. I went up to the room. I conscionable was truthful trusting."

She past goes connected to accidental that she wrote her attacker a letter, penning that helium had destroyed a "huge trust" successful him, but that it was dismissed.

"I conscionable threw my hands up and said, 'You cognize what, I garbage to beryllium a unfortunate due to the fact that this is thing that happens nary substance who you are and nary substance what you deliberation you're prepared for oregon not,'" she concludes. "I wanted to erase the full happening from my caput and assemblage and conscionable support connected the way I was on. The strategy had ne'er erstwhile travel to assistance me. So I conscionable had to get stronger connected my own."

Shields has antecedently addressed being sexualized from a young property successful 2 memoirs. But this is the archetypal clip she has revealed details of an battle of this nature.

Lena Wilson (Miss Americana) directed the documentary, which volition beryllium connected Hulu aboriginal this year.

Additional reporting by Mike Miller.

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