Brooke Shields bought a standing ovation on the documentary’s Sundance premiere.
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Brooke Shields revealed she was raped as a younger Hollywood actress in new documentary “Fairly Child: Brooke Shields,” which premiered on the Sundance movie competition on Friday.
The previous supermodel didn’t reveal the id of her attacker, however mentioned she met with the person — somebody she already knew — quickly after she graduated school, believing it was a piece assembly to debate casting her in a brand new film.
He took her again to his lodge, claiming he would name her a taxi from his room. He as a substitute disappeared to the toilet earlier than returning bare and assaulting her, she mentioned.
“It was like wrestling… I used to be afraid I might get choked out or one thing,” Shields recalled within the documentary.
“I did not battle that a lot. I did not. I simply completely froze. I assumed that my one ‘no’ ought to have been sufficient. And I simply thought ‘keep alive and get out.'”
After the incident, Shields recalled phoning her buddy and safety head Gavin de Becker, who informed her: “That is rape.”
She replied “I am not prepared to consider that,” and has not spoken of the incident publicly till now.
The revelation — which echoes #MeToo revelations by distinguished and lesser-known Hollywood actresses in recent times — is considered one of a number of surprising moments within the movie, which can be launched on the Hulu streaming platform in two components.
Half one examines the extreme sexualization Shields skilled as a younger lady, together with a provocative nude photoshoot at age 10, and her look as an little one prostitute within the movie “Fairly Child” at age 11.
The documentary reveals a younger Shields being requested lascivious questions by a lot older male chat present hosts about her roles in motion pictures akin to “Blue Lagoon” and “Infinite Love,” and the sequence of controversial Calvin Klein denims commercials she starred in.
After experiencing world fame as a youngster, Shields attended college at Princeton, and initially struggled to seek out performing roles once more after she graduated — resulting in the assembly together with her alleged rapist.
The film, which earned Shields a standing ovation at its Sundance premiere, additionally chronicles the media’s later obsession together with her virginity, her mom’s alcoholism, and her first marriage to tennis star Andre Agassi.
It options a number of of Shields’ well-known mates together with Lionel Richie, Laura Linney and Drew Barrymore.
Shields, 57, mentioned it “felt like the correct time in my life” to take part in a documentary, however that she by no means wished to “turn out to be shut down.”
“The trade that I used to be in actually primes you to be shut down and I simply did not need to lose to that. I did not need to turn out to be that sufferer.”
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