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Brooke Shields describes rape in Sundance documentary

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Brooke Shields arrives for the premiere of " Pretty="" at="" Sundance="" Film="" Festival="" in="" Park="" January="" The="" festival="" runs="" from="" to="" EPA-EFE="" George="" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2023/life/01/21/brooke-shields-epa-1212023.jpg"/><figcaption>Brooke Shields arrives for the premiere of &#x27;Pretty Baby&#x27; at 2023 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, USA, 20 January 2023. The festival runs from January 19 to January 29, 2023. EPA-EFE/George Frey</figcaption></figure></div>Brooke Shields revealed she was raped as a young Hollywood actress in new documentary &quot;Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields,&quot; which premiered on day two of the Sundance film festival Friday.The former supermodel did not reveal the identity of her attacker, but said she met with the man -- someone she already knew -- soon after she graduated college, believing it was a work meeting to discuss casting her in a new movie.He took her back to his hotel, claiming he would call her a taxi from his room. He instead disappeared to the bathroom before returning naked and assaulting her, she said.&quot;I didn&#x27;t fight that much... I just absolutely froze,&quot; Shields recalled in the documentary.&quot;I thought that my one &#x27;no&#x27; should have been enough. And I just thought &#x27;stay alive and get out.&#x27;&quot;After the incident, Shields recalled phoning her friend and security head Gavin de Becker, who told her: &quot;That&#x27;s rape.&quot;She replied &quot;I&#x27;m not willing to believe that,&quot; and has not spoken of the incident publicly until now.The revelation -- which echoes #MeToo revelations by prominent and lesser-known Hollywood actresses in recent years -- is one of several shocking moments in the film, which will be released on the Hulu streaming platform in two parts.Part one examines the intense sexualization Shields experienced as a young girl, including a provocative nude photoshoot at age 10, and her appearance as an child prostitute in the film &quot;Pretty Baby&quot; at age 11.The documentary shows a young Shields being asked lascivious questions by much older male chat show hosts about her roles in movies such as &quot;The Blue Lagoon&quot; and &quot;Endless Love,&quot; and the series of controversial Calvin Klein jeans commercials she starred in.After experiencing global fame as a teenager, Shields attended university at Princeton, and initially struggled to find acting roles again after she graduated -- leading to the meeting with her alleged rapist.<div> &#x27;PERSEVERANCE&#x27;</div>&quot;My personal message is perseverance, and not allowing yourself to become a victim to a society or an industry,&quot; she told AFP ahead of the film&#x27;s premiere at the festival in Utah.&quot;I&#x27;m proud of how I kept learning, kept growing, kept striving and kept loving what I do,&quot; Shields said.The movie, which earned Shields a standing ovation at Sundance, also chronicles the media&#x27;s later obsession with her virginity, her mother&#x27;s alcoholism, and her first marriage to tennis star Andre Agassi.It features several of Shields&#x27; famous friends including Lionel Richie, Laura Linney and Drew Barrymore. Co-founded by Robert Redford, Sundance is a key launching pad for independent movies and documentaries.Also on Thursday was the premiere of &quot;Justice,&quot; a surprise late addition to the festival line-up, which explores the sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.The first documentary from &quot;The Bourne Identity&quot; director Doug Liman, it features testimony from Deborah Ramirez, one of Kavanaugh&#x27;s accusers and a former Yale classmate.It also includes audio of another classmate, who said he saw Kavanaugh expose himself to a different, &quot;extremely drunk&quot; woman student at another party, but whose account was only reported in US media months after Kavanaugh&#x27;s polarizing 2018 Senate confirmation hearing.The woman, who is not named, has said she does not remember the incident.&quot;This was the kind of movie where people are terrified&quot; to speak out, Liman said.Kavanaugh has categorically denied engaging in sexual misconduct.The 2023 Sundance Film Festival is the first to be held in-person for three years, as recent editions were forced online by Covid. It runs until January 29.

Brooke Shields revealed she was raped as a young Hollywood actress in new documentary 'Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields.'