Brooke Shields Explains Why She Opened Up About Her Rape More Than 30 Years Later: ‘I’ve Learned to Process It’
usmagazine.comOpening up. Brooke Shields looks back at her life in the documentary Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields and, for the first time, discusses being sexually assaulted.“I did not know if or when or if at all I was ever going to bring this up,” the model, 57, explained to The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday, January 19. “It has taken me many years of therapy to even be able to talk about it.
I definitely have worked very hard through it, and I’ve learned to process it.”In the new movie — which premiered on Friday, January 20, at Sundance Film Festival — Shields recalled struggling to find film roles after her 1987 graduation from Princeton University.
She was excited to meet with an old friend about a possible project, and he invited her back to his hotel room in order to call a cab.“I just absolutely froze,” the Blue Lagoon star said in the documentary via Rolling Stone. “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.
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