Brooke Shields cries after her daughter Rowan, 19, drives back to Wake Forest University

Former child star Brooke Shields shared a video of herself crying at her $4.3M Hamptons home on Thursday after her daughter Rowan Francis Henchy drove back to Wake Forest University in North Carolina.

The 19-year-old Chi Omega sorority sister is about to begin her sophomore year, but that didn’t make it any easier for the 57-year-old native New Yorker.

‘I thought it would be easier the second time because she’s already been away and she’s been with me all summer,’ Brooke – who boasts 3.8M social media followers – said while breaking down.

‘I’m not making the drive with her. She’s driving with her dad, but she’s taking my car which was my car as my graduation present car and so she’s going to be driving that. It was just too painful.

‘I don’t think I could go through the driving away from campus again. So if there’s anybody else going through this we’re all in it together.’

Shields noted that she needed get her ‘roots done’ before crying: ‘Oh it’s so hard, I miss her already. Our babies. This is what you want. You raise them so that they leave you.’

‘I thought it would be easier the second time’: The 19-year-old Chi Omega sorority sister is about to begin her sophomore year, but that didn’t make it any easier for the 57-year-old native New Yorker

Brooke said: ‘Oh it’s so hard, I miss her already. Our babies. This is what you want. You raise them so that they leave you’

The Beginning Is Now founder previously said dropping off Rowan was the ‘worst thing I’ve ever experienced in all my life’ while appearing on the November 17th episode of LIVE with Kelly and Ryan.

‘But the younger one I’d like to send to college now,’ Brooke said of her 16-year-old daughter Grier Hammond Henchy.

Shields earned a bachelor’s degree in French literature from Princeton University in 1987 while her second husband Chris Henchy earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of New Mexico.

No more drop-offs: Shields previously said dropping off Rowan was the ‘worst thing I’ve ever experienced in all my life’ while appearing on the November 17th episode of LIVE with Kelly and Ryan

‘But the younger one I’d like to send to college now,’ the Beginning Is Now founder said of her 16-year-old daughter Grier Hammond Henchy (R, pictured May 4)

Educated family: Brooke earned a bachelor’s degree in French literature from Princeton University in 1987 while her second husband Chris Henchy (R, pictured in 2021) earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of New Mexico

The two-time Golden Globe nominee originally met the 58-year-old Eurovision Song Contest producer in 1999 on the Warner Bros lot, and they celebrated 21 years of marriage on April 4.

Audiences can next catch Brooke playing Daniella in Guy Jacobson’s upcoming legal comedy Out of Order! alongside Brandon Routh, Sam Huntington, Luis Guzmán, and Sandra Bernhard.

Last year, Shields executive produced and starred in the Netflix holiday rom-com A Castle for Christmas opposite Cary Elwes. 

‘Working with this insanely talented cast has been such an honor!’ Audiences can next catch Shields playing Daniella in Guy Jacobson’s upcoming legal comedy Out of Order! alongside Brandon Routh, Sam Huntington, Luis Guzmán, and Sandra Bernhard