Shields publicly reveals the assault for the first time in her new two-part documentary, Brooke Shields: Pretty Baby, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and will arrive on Hulu on April 3. The assault occurred over 30 years ago, at a time when Shields was struggling to find work as an actress. After dinner with a Hollywood executive, whom she thought might have a role for her, the executive invited her to call for a cab from his hotel room, where she says he assaulted her.
In the movie, Shields says, “I just absolutely froze. My one ‘no’ should have been enough. And I just thought, ‘Stay alive, and get out.’ And I just shut it out. And god knows I knew how to be disassociated from my body. I’d practiced that.”, Shields said, “It was really easy to disassociate because by then, it was old hat. And because it was a fight-or-flight type of choice. Fight was not an option, so you just leave your body. ‘You’re not there. It didn’t happen.
Shields added, “I’d always had a sense of dissociation from my body. From my sexuality… And it was just easier to shut myself off. I was good at it.” Because of that, Shields admitted, it took a long time for her to “process” the assault. In speaking about it now, she said she hopes to help “people not feel alone.”
“Everybody processes their own trauma on a different timeline,” she said. “I want to be an advocate for women to be able to speak their truth.”
Good for her.
HOOOOO! YOU ARE A GREAT IDOL TO HAVE BROOKE!
She’s angry but can’t name names.
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