Actress Brooke Shields confesses that she was a victim of rape: “I just thought ‘stay alive and go'”

Brooke Shields He has confessed that he was the victim of a rape when he began his career as an actress in Hollywood. The American she told details of that terrible episode within the framework of the Sundace Film Festival, where she has just premiered her documentary Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields.

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Shields explains that that day he met in a hotel with a man who promised him a role in a movie. At one point, the man went to the bathroom and then came out naked and raped her. “I just thought ‘stay alive and go,'” she said.

“It was like wrestling. I was afraid I was going to drown or something. I didn’t fight that much. I didn’t. I was totally paralyzed. I thought my only ‘no’ should have been enough,” added the supermodel.

the protagonist of blue Lagoon he had always refused to make a documentary about his life. But now, at 57, and in a good frame of mind after years of therapy, she felt the time was right to tell her story and join the #MeToo movement: “You have to watch how we’re taught to see people and how we’re taught to let them see us. It’s a new topic of conversation on the table.”

Pretty Baby launched the young Shields to stardom, however, it sparked a controversy over the sexualization to which she was subjected at the age of 11. She was her mother, Theresia Anna Schmonn, better known as Teri Shields, who introduced her to show business, and was widely criticized for allowing things like nudity to “encourage her professional career.” The documentary also shows how the media became obsessed with her virginity, her mother’s alcoholism and her first marriage to the tennis star. Andre Agassi.