Brooke Shields Recalls ‘Fiasco’ Interview With Barbara Walters: ‘I Felt So Taken Advantage Of’

Brooke Shields looked backmost connected uncomfortable interviews aboriginal connected successful her vocation during an quality on The Drew Barrymore Show on Tuesday, November 22. The actress, 57, explained that she felt that when Barbara Walters, 93, interviewed her erstwhile she was lone 15, she felt similar thing conscionable wasn’t right, as Drew Barrymore, 47, opened up astir her ain interrogation with Barbara.

Before turning to Barbara, Brooke recalled an interrogation with a pistillate writer erstwhile she was 10 and explained that she felt the interviewer kept prodding her to effort to get a antithetic reply from her. “I had to ticker an interrogation of erstwhile I was 10 oregon thing similar that, and this pistillate asked the aforesaid question repeatedly, and I yet arsenic this small girl, I said, ‘I don’t deliberation you privation to cognize my answer, due to the fact that it’s the aforesaid question, and this is my answer, but I can’t alteration it due to the fact that it’s my truth,'” she said successful a clip shared by People.

Brooke opened up astir the Barbara Walters interrogation during an quality connected ‘The Drew Barrymore Show.’ (Tammie Arroyo / AFF-USA.com / MEGA/Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock)

Drew asked if the interrogation she was talking astir was the infamous 1981 chat with Barbara Walters, and Brooke said she wasn’t. Still, the Pretty Baby star said that interrogation was “another fiasco,” and she felt similar the broadcasting fable “want[ed] the antagonistic soundbite.”

The model said that adjacent arsenic a teen, she was uncomfortable with the things that the interviewer was asking. “She asked maine what my measurements were, and asked maine to basal up, and I basal up, and she’s comparing herself to this small girl, and I thought, ‘This isn’t right. I don’t recognize what this is,’ but I behaved, and I smiled, and felt truthful taken vantage of successful truthful galore ways, but implicit the years, erstwhile you’ve been successful the nationalist oculus and been commented connected each the time,” she said, earlier comparing what she went done to the existent day. “Everybody has an opinion, and you each get to accidental it, and present that’s wherever societal media, I deliberation tin beryllium dangerous. Then you larn to say, ‘No, this is my truth.'”

Earlier successful the chat, Drew shared her ain acquisition with Barbara and said that she felt similar she was trying to get a definite reply retired of her. “I ne'er thought of Barbara Walters successful a antagonistic light, nor bash I. However, I watched this interrogation that her and I did and I was successful my aboriginal 20s, and she would not relent. She was like, ‘Talk to maine astir the drugs and alcohol. Talk to maine astir your mother. Talk to maine astir bisexuality. Talk to maine astir everything.’ I kept saying, ‘You know, Barbara, I’m truly doing well,'” she recalled.

This wasn’t the archetypal clip that Brooke has spoken retired astir the infamous interview, which came retired aft she was featured successful a Calvin Klein ad. She spoke astir however aggravated she was during an occurrence of Dax Shepherd’s Armchair Expert podcast successful December 2021. “It’s practically criminal,” she said of the interview. “It’s not journalism.”