January 21, 2023
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Brooke shares her story in Lana Wilson's new 2 part documentary Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, which premieres January 20, at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.
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Although Shields did not identify her assailant on film, she confirmed that it was someone she knew and was friendly with.
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"This is the first time I've ever talked about what happened," Shields said, breaking into tears as she told her story.
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At the time of the assault happened, the child star was away from the limelight to resume her acting career after attending Princeton University.
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But her re-entry into Hollywood made more difficult than expected. It was then that his assailant arrived first.
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"I heard there was a movie being made, and I was thinking," Brooke recalled in the film."This was the first time any interest had been expressed since college.
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During the incident, Brooke says she "disassociated" herself from her body, an experience she had earlier in her career on the set of the 1981 Franco Zeffirelli film Endless Love.
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While filming a love scene for that romance, Shields - who was 15 when the film was shot - recalls the late Italian director grabbing her toe and capturing it as "ecstasy".
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According to Brooke, she later confronted her assaulter in a letter instead of discussing the incident publicly.
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