Brooke Shields Reveals She Was Sexually Assaulted By a Hollywood Executive 30 Years Ago

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Brooke Shields is bravely opening up about a sexual assault for the first time. The 57-year-old model and actress makes the revelation in a two-part documentary, Brooke Shields: Pretty Baby. “It’s taken me a long time to process it,” Brooke said. “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.” Keep reading to find out more… While at a low point in her career and desperate for work, she was invited by a powerful Hollywood executive to make a call for a cab from his hotel room where he assaulted her. “I didn’t fight, I just froze,” she recalls in the documentary. “No one is going to believe me.

People weren’t believing those stories back then. I thought I would never work again,” Brooke said she was thinking at the time. “Doing the documentary, you see it all together, and it’s a miracle that I survived,” she told People.

At the time, she says she actually blamed herself for the assault. “I kept saying, ‘I shouldn’t have done that. Why did I go up with him?