Brooke Shields Reveals She Was Sexually Assaulted 30 Years Ago In Explosive New Documentary

Brooke Shields spoke astir being sexually assaulted successful her 20s successful a caller interrogation with People to sermon her upcoming documentary. The actress, 57, revealed that she was acrophobic that radical wouldn’t judge her astatine the time, which is wherefore she didn’t travel guardant astir her acquisition until the caller documentary Brooke Shields: Pretty Baby, which volition beryllium released connected Hulu connected April 3. “Doing the documentary, you spot it each together, and it’s a occurrence that I survived,” she told the outlet.

Brooke said that with time, she’s been capable to process what had happened and find the spot to talk astir it, aft worrying that “no 1 [was] going to believe” her astatine the time. “People weren’t believing those stories backmost then. I thought I would ne'er enactment again,” she said. “I’m much aggravated present than I was capable to beryllium then. If you’re afraid, you’re rightfully so. They are scary situations. They don’t person to beryllium convulsive to beryllium scary.”

Brooke opened up astir her battle successful her new, upcoming documentary. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)

The Blue Lagoon actress said she was astatine the “lowest constituent of my career,” and had precocious finished schoolhouse astatine Princeton. She said she’d had meal with an enforcement reasoning she had gotten “a movie, a job,” erstwhile helium invited her to his edifice country to telephone for a cab, and successful the room, she alleged that helium assaulted her. Brooke said she “didn’t fight” and “just froze.” She revealed afterward that she “disassociated.”

Brooke revealed she wanted to stock her communicative present to assistance others who whitethorn person had akin experiences. “Everybody processes their ain trauma connected a antithetic timeline. I privation to beryllium an advocator for women to beryllium capable to talk their truth,” she told the magazine.

Brooke’s acquisition of being sexually assaulted was archetypal reported erstwhile the documentary aired astatine the Sundance Film Festival backmost successful January. Reports astir the screening said that Brooke didn’t sanction her attacker, and she ne'er publically confronted him.

If you oregon idiosyncratic you cognize has been sexually assaulted and needs help, delight call 800.656.HOPE (4673) to beryllium connected with a trained unit subordinate from a intersexual battle work supplier successful your area.

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