Brooke Shield, now 57, recently revealed that she had been sexually assaulted by a Hollywood executive in her 20s, at what Shields called the lowest point in her acting career.
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In her upcoming two-part documentary called Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, the actress reveals that she had gone out to dinner with a Hollywood executive in the hopes of landing a movie role. However, the unnamed man invited her back to his hotel room, where he had gone on to sexually assault her.
As per People, Shields recalls the scenario in the upcoming documentary:
“I didn’t fight,” she said, “I just froze.”
Shields also recalled thinking that no one would believe her as “people weren’t believing those stories back then.”
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With the uprise of the #MeToo movement in later years, women in Hollywood have now only started to feel more comfortable with revealing their experiences of sexual assault and rape within the entertainment industry, without their trauma being swept under the rug.
She said:
“I’m more angry now than I was able to be then. If you’re afraid, you’re rightfully so. They are scary situations. They don’t have to be violent to be scary.”
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Brooke Shields also recalled her ability to shut herself off in the moment she was assaulted. Being an actor and model, Shields says she had always had a sense of disassociation from her body. Prior to this instance in her 20s, Brooke had grown up in the entertainment industry, and starred in movies like Pretty Baby, where she played a child prostitute and The Blue Lagoon, filmed when Brooke was only 14, which featured nudity.
In the upcoming documentary about her life and career, Brooke not only dives into the assault in her 20s, but also shares her feelings around being sexualised as a young girl in the entertainment industry.
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