Brooke Shields bought a standing ovation on the documentary’s Sundance premiere.

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Brooke Shields revealed she was raped as a younger Hollywood actress in new documentary “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields,” which premiered on the Sundance movie pageant on Friday.

The former supermodel didn’t reveal the id of her attacker, however stated she met with the person — somebody she already knew — quickly after she graduated faculty, believing it was a piece assembly to debate casting her in a brand new film.

He took her again to his lodge, claiming he would name her a taxi from his room. He as a substitute disappeared to the toilet earlier than returning bare and assaulting her, she stated.

“It was like wrestling… I was afraid I could get choked out or something,” Shields recalled within the documentary.

“I didn’t fight that much. I didn’t. I just absolutely froze. I thought that my one ‘no’ should have been enough. And I just thought ‘stay alive and get out.'”

After the incident, Shields recalled phoning her good friend and safety head Gavin de Becker, who informed her: “That’s rape.”

She replied “I’m not willing to believe that,” and has not spoken of the incident publicly till now.

The revelation — which echoes #MeToo revelations by distinguished and lesser-known Hollywood actresses lately — is certainly one of a number of surprising moments within the movie, which shall be launched on the Hulu streaming platform in two elements.

Part one examines the extraordinary sexualization Shields skilled as a younger lady, together with a provocative nude photoshoot at age 10, and her look as an youngster prostitute within the movie “Pretty Baby” at age 11.

The documentary exhibits a younger Shields being requested lascivious questions by a lot older male chat present hosts about her roles in motion pictures resembling “Blue Lagoon” and “Endless Love,” and the sequence of controversial Calvin Klein denims commercials she starred in.

After experiencing international fame as a youngster, Shields attended college at Princeton, and initially struggled to seek out appearing roles once more after she graduated — resulting in the assembly along with her alleged rapist.

The film, which earned Shields a standing ovation at its Sundance premiere, additionally chronicles the media’s later obsession along with her virginity, her mom’s alcoholism, and her first marriage to tennis star Andre Agassi.

It options a number of of Shields’ well-known associates together with Lionel Richie, Laura Linney and Drew Barrymore.

Shields, 57, stated it “felt like the right time in my life” to take part in a documentary, however that she by no means needed to “become shut down.”

“The industry that I was in really primes you to be shut down and I just didn’t want to lose to that. I didn’t want to become that victim.”

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