Brooke Shields is speaking up about surviving a sexual attack over 30 years ago.

Shields stated in a recent interview with People that she was attacked by a Hollywood producer soon after graduating from Princeton University.
She blamed herself at the moment, but she’s had time to comprehend what occurred over the years.

“I’m more enraged now than I was then.” You have every right to be terrified. They are frightening scenarios. They don’t have to be violent to be frightening.”

Because “people weren’t believing those stories back then,” the model turned actress has confessed she was a victim of sexual assault for the first time. “I thought I’d never have to work again.”

Her narrative, which has unfortunately become all too frequent in Hollywood, is portrayed in further depth in the upcoming two-part documentary Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields.

“Doing the documentary, you see it all together, and it’s a miracle that I survived,” Shields said.

The 57-year-old began her modeling career when she was 11 months old. She continued to model until 1978, when she participated in the divisive film Pretty Baby as a juvenile prostitute.

At the time, she was 12 years old.

She was the youngest model to appear on the cover of Vogue when she was 14 years old.

Shields continued to appear in controversial advertisements, notably those by Calvin Klein, during the 1980s, leading to her sexualization at a young age.

Shields found herself at the “lowest point” in her career after graduating from Princeton University. She had dinner with an anonymous Hollywood executive who she thought would give her a role in a film or a job, but after their meal, he asked her to go to his hotel room.

He persuaded her to accompany him to his room under the pretense of ordering a taxi from there. But once there, he abused her sexually.

“I didn’t fight,” she said flatly. “I just stood there and froze.”

Shields felt terrible about herself and blamed herself for the assault.

“I kept telling myself, ‘I shouldn’t have done that.'” Why did I agree to go up with him? “I should not have had that drink at dinner.”

Shields only informed one person at the time: her close friend and former security consultant Gavin de Becker. But she’s now ready to share her tale “in the hopes of making people feel less alone.”

“Everyone processes their own trauma on their own timetable.” I want to be an advocate for women’s right to voice their minds.”

It crushes my heart every time someone comes forward to say they were sexually assaulted and admits they never spoke out because they were frightened no one would believe them.

We must begin to believe individuals so that they do not have to live with these terrible secrets for decades.