Zack Sharf Digital News Director Brooke Shields’ new documentary “Pretty Baby” made headlines at the Sundance Film Festival due to her revelation that she was sexually assaulted in her 20s.
In a new interview with People magazine, Shields revealed it was a powerful Hollywood executive who assaulted her over 30 years ago. “It’s taken me a long time to process it,” Shields 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.” Shields said she never went public with the sexual assault until the documentary because she thought “no one is going to believe me,” adding, “People weren’t believing those stories back then.
I thought I would never work again.” The sexual assault happened at the “lowest point of my career,” Shields said. She was a recent graduate at Princeton University and booked a meeting with a Hollywood executive.
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