Brooke Shields Opens Up About Surviving Sexual Assault in New Documentary

The new two-part documentary, 'Pretty Baby,' recounts the harrowing experience amidst Shields' rise to fame.

A new two-part documentary called Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields is pulling back the curtain on Brooke Shields' career as a child actress and model and the many harrowing experiences she endured from then on.

One major detail revealed in the film directed by Lana Wilson–who also helmed the Taylor Swift documentary Miss Americana–is Shields recounting how she was raped in her 20s.

In the film, Shields explains how she struggled to get acting jobs after graduating college. She went to dinner with someone she thought of as a kind acquaintance with a possible job opportunity that took a horrific turn.

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As USA Today reported, Shields says in Pretty Baby, "I thought it was a work meeting. I had met this person before, and he was always nice to me." But as the meal continued, "his behavior was changing, and there was no talk about the movie."

After dinner, the man insisted that Shields accompany him back to his hotel, where he would call her a cab. But instead, he brought her up to his room and disappeared for a bit before returning naked and attacking her.

Shields emotionally describes the brutal assault, "It was like wrestling. I was afraid I would get choked out or something, I didn't know. I played the scene out in my head, so I didn't fight that much...I just absolutely froze. I just thought, 'Stay alive and get out.'"

She continued, saying that during the rape, "I just shut it out. And God knows I knew how to be dissociated from my body. I practiced that (as a model)."

After the assault, Shields managed to escape and travel to her friend's apartment. She then told her security chief, Gavin de Becker, what had happened.

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De Becker also appears in the film and talks a little about the event: "I was angry to hear her story...That's my little sister and I wanted her to know she didn't do anything wrong."

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Along with her story of survival, Pretty Baby thoroughly explores how she was exploited repeatedly as a child and sexualized from a young age.

The actress starred in many projects that would be deemed very inappropriate today, like the 1978 film Pretty Baby–a movie featuring an 11-year-old Shields in the role of a child sex worker–which inspired the title of the documentary.

The documentary Pretty Baby will premiere on Hulu later this year. A release date has not yet been announced.