Brooke Shields was raped when she was a young woman following her graduation from Princeton University in the late Eighties.
And in the first official trailer for her two-part documentary, Pretty Baby, she went into detail about the attack.
The 57-year-old model also shared that she wrote to her attacker years later, but he did not reply. She has never named the man.
Brooke added despite his silence she refused to feel like ‘a victim’ and had ‘wanted to erase the whole thing from my mind and body and just keep on the path I was on.’
The Vogue cover girl was hoping to get back into making Hollywood films when the violent attack happened.
She was raped by a man who she thought was a ‘friend’ after they had dinner to discuss her film project dreams.
Heartbreaking: Brooke Shields was raped when she was a young woman in 1987. And in the first official trailer for her two-part documentary, Pretty Baby, she went into detail about the attack
No closure: The 57-year-old model also shared that she wrote to her attacker years later, but he did not reply. She has never named the man
She tears up when she tells the story in her two-part documentary Pretty Baby.
At the time of the rape she was trying to get back into acting following her 1987 graduation from Princeton university.
She described going back to her attacker’s room after they had dinner to discuss her future career: ‘I go up to the hotel room, and he disappears for a while.’
Brooke added that she picked up a pair of binoculars in the room and was using them to watch some volleyball players out of the window when he returned naked and launched his assault.
She said: ‘I put the binoculars down and he’s right on me. Just like, was wrestling. I was afraid I’d get choked out or something. So, I didn’t fight that much. 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.’
Young lady: She was raped in 1987 just a year before this photo was taken in 1988 in NYC
She got in a taxi after the rape and cried all the way to a friend’s apartment.
She said she told her head of security Gavin de Becker about the incident, who told her: ‘That’s rape.’
But she said she was not ‘willing to believe that’ and hasn’t detailed the incident publicly until now.
She said she wrote to her attacker years later, but he did not reply. Despite his silence, she refused to feel like ‘a victim’ and ‘wanted to erase the whole thing from my mind and body and just keep on the path I was on’.
But now, little more than a year since giving an interview in which she claimed she’d been ‘kind of untouchable… I was not easy prey’ — and had never had a ‘#MeToo moment’ of her own — she is singing a very different tune.
Painful: Brooke added despite his silence she refused to feel like ‘a victim’ and had ‘wanted to erase the whole thing from my mind and body and just keep on the path I was on’
She wanted a career: The Vogue cover girl was hoping to get back into making Hollywood films when the violent attack happened. She was raped by a man who she thought was a ‘friend’ after they had dinner to discuss her film project dreams. Seen in 1988
Despite her vampish image, Shields would later admit she didn’t have sex until she was 22 — and would have preferred to have waited even longer.
It was a revelation that saw her cruelly dubbed ‘America’s most famous virgin’. Yet her abstinence had undoubtedly helped her escape the worst excesses of Hollywood’s sexual predators.
For years she credited her fiercely defensive mother Teri, who was also her manager. ‘If anybody looked at me sideways, she was like: ‘I will cut off your b***s and make you eat them,’ ‘ Shields said in 2019.
Named after one of her first films, in which she played a child prostitute, the documentary charts her rise to fame before she found her confidence and what she calls in the trailer her ‘own opinion’ and ‘own voice.’
She adds at the end of the teaser: ‘Now, it’s like I’m allowed to be a human being.’
Brooke has daughters Rowan, 19, and Grier, 16, with her 58-year-old director husband Chris Henchy.
Horrific encounter: She says in the film about going back to her attacker’s room after they had dinner to discuss her future career: ‘I go up to the hotel room, and he disappears for a while.’ Brooke added she picked up a pair of binoculars in the room and was using them to watch some volleyball players out of the window when he returned naked and launched his assault
In her role in Pretty Baby aged 11, Brooke appeared naked as a child prostitute with a 29-year-old Keith Carradine.
At 15, she appeared in two more films, Blue Lagoon and Endless Love, that included sex and nudity.
She also did a nude photoshoot at age 10.
Brooke has said she didn’t lose her virginity until the age of 22 due to a lack of self-confidence.
The mother-of-two went on to reflect on being being selected for the cover of Time Magazine in 1981, at just 16, to represent the ’80s look.’
‘I was on the cover of Time magazine as the face of that whole era. Who decides that?’ she asked.
Shields admitted she is ‘amazed that’ she ‘survived any of it.’
‘I found my confidence and thought, “I can have my own opinion,”‘ she reflected after years of struggling to ‘find’ her ‘own voice’ through her adolescence and early life.
Fellow child star Drew Barrymore made a cameo in the preview as she told viewers that she ‘loved’ Shields’ tone about moving forward in life.
Her childhood friend Laura Linney remembers, at the time, always hoping that Shields was ‘okay’ after being ‘catapulted into the world of adult sexuality’ at such a young age.
The A Castle for Christmas star stated that she was ‘just born with this face’ and has spent a lot of time thinking about the things ‘that could’ve happened without beauty.’
Celebrated for her looks: Now looking back, Shields narrates that the ‘entirety’ of her life she was bombarded by people calling her a ‘pretty’ face ‘over and over again’
Despite her vampish image, Shields would later admit she didn’t have sex until she was 22 — and would have preferred to have waited even longer; seen in Pretty Baby at 11
Devastating: In 2005, Shields disclosed she’d suffered from postnatal depression and had even considered suicide. ‘I finally had a healthy beautiful baby girl and I couldn’t look at her,’ she revealed
‘Now, it’s like I’m allowed to be a human-being.’ she marveled.
At 14, when other girls were still decorating their pencil cases, she had become the youngest model ever to make the cover of Vogue.
That same year, she began filming the leering teen romance Blue Lagoon — in which her character frequently stripped off and had sex with her fellow shipwrecked sweetheart (played by Christopher Atkins, then 18).
A body-double stood in for her sex scenes but, Shields says, the film-makers encouraged her to pursue a real romance with Atkins off-screen.
There was more sex and nudity for her the following year in Franco Zeffirelli’s romantic drama Endless Love, about two high-school sweethearts who are forbidden to see each other.
And at 15, she appeared — writhing around in figure-hugging denim — in the provocative adverts for Calvin Klein Jeans, which featured the suggestive tagline: ‘You want to know what comes between me and my Calvin’s? Nothing.’
The films and that ad campaign helped propel her to international stardom.
Known around the world simply as ‘Brooke’, she became the party-girl mascot of New York’s debauched nightclub Studio 54. With those iconic thick eyebrows and long lustrous hair that made her look older than her years, she was the teenager a top agent once described as ‘so beautiful that strong men forget to flick their cigar ash’.
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