“I had no thought I used to be going to say it,” says Shields, explaining why now was the time to talk out.
In a brand new documentary, Brooke Shields is opening up about being sexually assaulted in her 20s for the primary time.
On Friday, her documentary “Fairly Child” was screened on the Sundance Movie Pageant, wherein she particulars being raped by a person within the leisure trade — who she does not identify — shortly after graduating Princeton College.
“I believed it was a piece assembly. I had met this individual earlier than and he was at all times good to me,” she reportedly says within the movie, including that “his conduct was altering and there was no speak concerning the film.”
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The person insisted on calling a cab for her from his lodge room, the place he disappeared “for some time” earlier than re-emerging bare and throwing himself on her. “It was like wrestling,” she emotionally recalled, “I used to be afraid I might get choked out or one thing, I did not know. I performed the scene out in my head, so I did not struggle that a lot.”
“I simply completely froze. I simply thought, ‘Keep alive and get out,'” she continued. “And God is aware of I knew the best way to be dissociated from my physique. I practiced that (as a mannequin).”
Talking with The Hollywood Reporter after the doc’s premiere, she was requested what was behind her resolution to talk out now concerning the assault.
“I didn’t know if or when or if in any respect I used to be ever going to carry this up. It has taken me a few years of remedy to even have the ability to speak about it,” she defined. “I undoubtedly have labored very onerous by means of it, and I’ve discovered to course of it. And I’ve come to a spot, and we have come to a time in our society, the place we are able to speak about this stuff way more brazenly.”
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“I had no thought I used to be going to say it. I believed, I’ve arrived at this place, and I really feel as a mom of two younger ladies that I hope that simply by even listening to my incident that I can add myself to turning into an advocate,” she added. “As a result of that is one thing that does occur every single day, and it shouldn’t be taking place. I felt that I had arrived at a spot the place I may speak about it. It is taken me a very long time.”
Although she is aware of her story of assault “will undoubtedly be targeted on” by the general public, she famous, “there’s a complete different hour and 45 minutes” — including, “I am so pleased with taking a look at my physique of labor and saying, ‘I completed that and I stored studying and I stored rising.’ I am nonetheless right here.”
“Fairly Child” will debut on Hulu later this 12 months.
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