‘Stay Alive And Get Out’: Brooke Shields Reveals She Was Raped By An Acquaintance

Actress Brooke Shields In a new documentary, she reveals that she was raped shortly after she returned to Hollywood from Princeton University.

Shields Tells the story for first time in “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields” — a new Hulu documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday and is named for the 1978 film in which Shields, then just 11 years old, played a child prostitute.

The “Blue Lagoon” The actress was a star as a teenager but lost her way when she returned to California, Entertainment Weekly reports. reported. After finding no parts, she told me that she finally met with a man who knew her to talk about potential projects.

“He said, ‘Come back to the hotel and I’ll call a cab,’ and I go up to the hotel room, and he disappears for a while,” Shields recalled in the film that she felt uncomfortable the moment she entered the room.

Shortly after they got to the room, she said the man disappeared — at which point she picked up a pair of binoculars and watched a volleyball game out the window.

“The door opens, the person comes out naked, and I’ve got the binoculars and I’m like, ‘S***. And I put the binoculars down and he’s right on me. Just like, was wrestling,” Shields continued.

“I was afraid I’d get choked out or something, so I didn’t fight that much,” Shields said that she was concerned about the man reacting violently by running. “I didn’t. I just absolutely froze. I thought one ‘No’ should’ve been enough, and I just thought, ‘Stay alive and get out,’ and I just shut it out.”

“God knows I knew how to be disassociated from my body. I’d practiced that,” Shields are now available. “I went down in the elevator, and I got my own cab. I just cried all the way to my friend’s apartment.”

Shields stated that she was traumatized by the incident, but it took her time to confess that it was rape.

“He said, ‘That’s rape,’” Shields spoke of Gavin de Becker, her Security specialist. “And I said, ‘I’m not willing to believe that.’”

She said that she even felt guilty for what happened because it was what she needed to do in her head to make it all make sense. “He said to me, ‘I can trust you and I can’t trust people.’ It’s so cliché, it’s practically pathetic. I believed somehow I put out a message and that was how the message was received. I drank wine at dinner. I went up to the room. I just was so trusting.”

She later said that she wrote her attacker — whom she never names in the documentary — and told him that he had destroyed her trust.

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