Brooke Shields is opening up about being sexually assaulted by a powerful Hollywood executive over 30 years ago. The actress, now 57, recalled how she thought at the time, “No one is going to believe me,” as she spoke to People in a new interview.
Shields added, “People weren’t believing those stories back then. I thought I would never work again.” READ MORE: ‘Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields’: An Actress Discovers Her Power In New Documentary Teaser The model also discussed the assault in her upcoming two-part documentary, “Brooke Shields: Pretty Baby”, set to premiere April 3 on Hulu.
She told People of speaking out in the doc, “Doing the documentary, you see it all together, and it’s a miracle that I survived. “It’s taken me a long time to process it,” Shields continued of the assault that happened when she was in her 20s. “I’m more angry now than I was able to be then.
If you’re afraid, you’re rightfully so. They are scary situations. They don’t have to be violent to be scary.” Shields recalled being at the “lowest point of my career” at the time, with her unable to find much work as a recent Princeton University graduate.
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