More than meets the eye. Brooke Shields reflected on her highs and lows in the spotlight in her revealing documentary, Pretty Baby.
“I’m amazed that I survived any of it,” Shields, 57, hinted within the trailer prior to the two-part documentary hit Hulu on Monday, April 3.
The challenge premiered on the Sundance Film Festival in January and was helmed via director Lana Wilson, who labored on Taylor Swift‘s Miss Americana documentary. “I’m now not all for famous-person problems. What I'm focused on is how fame can magnify and supercharge relatable problems,” Wilson instructed The Hollywood Reporter previous this yr. “[Brooke’s] existence has been excessive and completely distinctive, however her experience of being a woman in America is horrifyingly relatable.”
Pretty Baby derived its identify from the debatable 1978 film directed by way of Louis Malle, by which Shields starred as a kid prostitute. She was barely a teenager when operating at the movie, and her mother, Teri Shields, faced backlash at the time for allowing her daughter to take part in PDA scenes.
Several of Brooke’s famous friends were requested to weigh in for the documentary, including fellow former child celebrity Drew Barrymore. “I’ve been on the ones units, you’re having amusing, you don’t consider it till later,” the Drew Barrymore Show host, 48, told the cameras whilst discussing the scandalous film. “There is an aftermath that then cycles on your head of like, ‘Was that OK?'”
The Jane the Virgin alum, for her section, confessed: “I feel I learned to compartmentalize at such an early age and it was once a survival methodology.”
Brooke’s advanced dating with her late mother and former manager is a big focus of the documentary, however the actress also shared parts of her life that had never been made public before — including an alleged rape in her 20s.
“I didn't know if or when or if at all I was ever going to carry this up,” she informed THR ahead of Pretty Baby‘s liberate. “It has taken me a few years of treatment to even have the ability to discuss it. I surely have worked very hard via it, and I’ve learned to procedure it. And I’ve come to a spot, and we’ve come to a time in our society, the place we can discuss this stuff much more overtly.”
The New York native noted that she wanted to lead by example for her daughters — Rowan, 19, and Grier, 16 — whom she stocks with husband Chris Henchy. “I sought after to percentage this tale with other men and women who would possibly in all probability be suffering or trying to survive this, hoping that a minimum of if I share the incident and the tale then it helps others to work through no matter they wish to work through,” she explained. “I’m hoping to be that form of an advocate.”
Brooke reflected on the aftermath of her assault within the Hulu particular, revealing that she wrote a letter to her alleged attacker. (She did not determine the individual by means of name.)
“I simply threw my hands up and concept, ‘You know what, I refuse to be a victim as a result of this is something that occurs no matter who you are and no matter what you think you’re prepared for or not,'” she stated. “I sought after to erase the whole thing from my thoughts and frame and simply keep at the path I used to be on. The machine had by no means as soon as come to assist me. So I just needed to get stronger on my own.”
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