It's a heavy secret that Brooke Shields has carried for over 30 years. In her documentary Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, the Blue Lagoon star recounts a dark episode in her life, a rape she suffered just after graduating from Princeton University, while taking her first steps in Hollywood. The actress had mentioned a sexual assault, but without revealing that it was a high-ranking official in the film industry.
She had agreed to have dinner with this Hollywood pundit, believing that she was meeting him for an offer of a role in a movie. This was not the case. Now a mother of two teenage girls, she explains that the unspoken of the time, long before the #MeToo movement, are partly responsible for her silence and her reaction to the attack.
The Code of Silence
"It was really easy to dissociate because at that time it was an old habit," she told People. "It was a situation where you either fight or flee. Combat wasn't an option, so you just leave your body. You are not here. That did not happen. Convinced that no one would believe her, the American star gave up confiding, except to Gavin de Becker, his friend and security consultant.
"People didn't believe these stories at the time. I thought I'd never work again," the 57-year-old actress said. "It took me a long time to deal with that. I'm angrier now than I could have been then. If you're afraid, you're right. These are scary situations. You don't have to be violent to be scary. »
The documentary Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, directed by Lana Wilson, will air on Hulu on April 3.
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