Brooke Shields opens up about being raped by “industry insiders” in Pretty Baby docuseries about her life and career

In her upcoming documentary about her life and long career, Brooke Shields describes an attack she experienced at the hands of what she calls “an industry insider.”

The actress and author tells how in her early 20s she met the man – someone she considered a friend – for dinner and then went to his hotel room to order a taxi home when he left the room. Soon, she describes, he returned to the room where he attacked her.

“He was right with me. It was like a fight,” she says, adding that at the time she blamed herself for drinking wine and going to his room.

She tells the story in the Lana Wilson-directed ABC News/Hulu documentary Beautiful Baby: Brooke Shields which started at Sundance. beautiful baby – named after one of her films – which explores how she became the object of sexual desire as a young teenager through a trio of films – Beautiful baby, the blue lagoon And Endless love — as well as her ad for Calvin Klein Jeans. At 14, she was the youngest model ever to appear on the cover Fashion Magazine.

Shields has previously said that despite her sexualized image and global fame at a young age, she always got away with the worst behavior now widely described in the #MeToo movement — because of her own conservative stance and overprotective mother manager Teri , who accompanied her. on film sets and tours.

However, the documentary also reveals how uncomfortable Shields felt as a young actress during sex scenes Endless love Director Franco Zeffirelli, something she talked about with Deadline at the Sundance Festival. And she previously opened up about how the producers encouraged an off-screen romance between her Blue lagoon co-star Christopher Atkins, despite their ages of 14 and 18 respectively.

Pretty Baby premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and is coming to Hulu soon.