Was Harvey Weinstein The Culprit? Sexual Predator Of Brooke Shields Rape In Pretty Baby Documentary
On April 3, Hulu will release Brooke Shields: Pretty Baby, a two-part documentary that covers Brooke Shields' extensive career and life in the public eye.
For the first time, Brooke Shields has come forward about being raped as a young actress. Shields describes the moment in harrowing detail in her Hulu documentary, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival this weekend. People are questioning who assaulted Brooke Shields. Was it Harvey Weinstein?
In the upcoming documentary, which has been helmed by Lana Wilson (Miss Americana), Shields speaks of the professional rejections she experienced after graduating from Princeton in 1987 when she was 22. This was a period of her life which was preceded by her fame as a teenage sex symbol due to her modeling and roles in films such as Pretty Baby and Blue Lagoon. So when she heard there was a movie being made, and that her name was being considered, she eagerly agreed to what she thought was a work meeting with a man—whom Shields never names—who was involved in making the film. But, she says, what happened instead was that she was lured to this man’s hotel room and forced to have sex with him against her will.
“This is the first time I’ve ever spoken about what happened,” Shields, who is now 57, tells the camera in a talking head interview. “We had dinner, and I thought it was a work meeting. I had met this person before and he was always nice to me.” It soon became clear that the man was not interested in talking about the film, or in Shields’s professional career. Shields tried to get a cab to go home, but the man insisted that she follow him to his hotel room, and he would call her a cab from there.
“I go up to the hotel room and he disappears for a while,” Shields says. “I don’t want to go over to the phone, because it’s not my phone. I don’t want to sit down, because I’m not staying. I decided to look at the binoculars, and bide my time. So I look at the binoculars and watch the volleyball players.”
Shields recounts the incident, saying, "The door opened and the person came out naked. I had the binoculars and I was like, 'Oh no!' I quickly put them down and he was right on me. It felt like a wrestling match. I was scared that I would be choked out so I didn't put up much of a fight. I just stayed still and thought 'I need to stay alive and get out of here'. I thought my one 'no' should have been enough."
Shields continued, “I just shut it out. God knows, I knew how to be dissociated from my body. I had practiced that. The next thing is, the doors open, and the person says, ‘Oh, I’ll see you around.’ No clothes on. I walked out, went down the elevator, and got my own cab. I cried all the way to my friend’s apartment.” When her friend told her she had just been raped, she says she responded, “I’m not willing to believe that.”
Related: Where Does Brooke Shields Live? Inside Her House Updated
That friend, Gavin De Becker, who also worked on Shields’ security team, recalls feeling heartbroken on Shields’s behalf, and adamant that though Shields blamed herself at the time, it wasn’t her fault. “She was crying,” De Becker tells the camera firmly, speaking about the sexual assault incident as it was described to him. “There’s no way that can be misinterpreted. She was not looking for a sexual experience.”
Shields herself recalls the twisted ways she blamed herself: “I believe somehow I put out a message, and that was how the message was received. I drank wine at dinner. I went up to the room. I just was so trusting.”
Later, however, Shields says she wrote a letter to her perpetrator. “I said, ‘That was a huge trust that was blown, disintegrated, and destroyed. How dare you, I’m better than that. I’m better than you are, actually.'” Shields says the letter was dismissed by the person completely, and eventually, she dropped the issue. “I wanted to erase the whole thing from my mind and body, and just keep on the path that I was on, she said. “The system had never once come to help me, so I just had to get stronger on my own.”
In the documentary, Shields refrains from divulging the identity of the person who sexually assaulted her, as well as any specifics that could be used to identify them. The details of the encounter she presents, however, are reminiscent of the accounts of eight women's experiences with Harvey Weinstein, as reported in the 2017 New York Times exposé, which eventually led to his conviction for sexual misconduct. In that exposé, reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey identified a pattern of Weinstein’s behavior, writing, “Women reported to a hotel for what they thought were work reasons, only to discover that Mr. Weinstein, who has been married for most of three decades, sometimes seemed to have different interests.” Whether it was Weinstein or not, it’s clearly a destructive pattern that’s played out throughout Hollywood for decades.
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For the first time, Brooke Shields has come forward about being raped as a young actress. Shields describes the moment in harrowing detail in her Hulu documentary, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival this weekend. People are questioning who assaulted Brooke Shields. Was it Harvey Weinstein?
#1. What is in Brooke Shields: Pretty Baby?
Source: People
In the upcoming documentary, which has been helmed by Lana Wilson (Miss Americana), Shields speaks of the professional rejections she experienced after graduating from Princeton in 1987 when she was 22. This was a period of her life which was preceded by her fame as a teenage sex symbol due to her modeling and roles in films such as Pretty Baby and Blue Lagoon. So when she heard there was a movie being made, and that her name was being considered, she eagerly agreed to what she thought was a work meeting with a man—whom Shields never names—who was involved in making the film. But, she says, what happened instead was that she was lured to this man’s hotel room and forced to have sex with him against her will.
“This is the first time I’ve ever spoken about what happened,” Shields, who is now 57, tells the camera in a talking head interview. “We had dinner, and I thought it was a work meeting. I had met this person before and he was always nice to me.” It soon became clear that the man was not interested in talking about the film, or in Shields’s professional career. Shields tried to get a cab to go home, but the man insisted that she follow him to his hotel room, and he would call her a cab from there.
“I go up to the hotel room and he disappears for a while,” Shields says. “I don’t want to go over to the phone, because it’s not my phone. I don’t want to sit down, because I’m not staying. I decided to look at the binoculars, and bide my time. So I look at the binoculars and watch the volleyball players.”
#2. Who assaulted Brooke Shields?
Source: Netflix Life
Shields recounts the incident, saying, "The door opened and the person came out naked. I had the binoculars and I was like, 'Oh no!' I quickly put them down and he was right on me. It felt like a wrestling match. I was scared that I would be choked out so I didn't put up much of a fight. I just stayed still and thought 'I need to stay alive and get out of here'. I thought my one 'no' should have been enough."
Shields continued, “I just shut it out. God knows, I knew how to be dissociated from my body. I had practiced that. The next thing is, the doors open, and the person says, ‘Oh, I’ll see you around.’ No clothes on. I walked out, went down the elevator, and got my own cab. I cried all the way to my friend’s apartment.” When her friend told her she had just been raped, she says she responded, “I’m not willing to believe that.”
Related: Where Does Brooke Shields Live? Inside Her House Updated
Source: ABC News
That friend, Gavin De Becker, who also worked on Shields’ security team, recalls feeling heartbroken on Shields’s behalf, and adamant that though Shields blamed herself at the time, it wasn’t her fault. “She was crying,” De Becker tells the camera firmly, speaking about the sexual assault incident as it was described to him. “There’s no way that can be misinterpreted. She was not looking for a sexual experience.”
Shields herself recalls the twisted ways she blamed herself: “I believe somehow I put out a message, and that was how the message was received. I drank wine at dinner. I went up to the room. I just was so trusting.”
Source: The New Yorker
Later, however, Shields says she wrote a letter to her perpetrator. “I said, ‘That was a huge trust that was blown, disintegrated, and destroyed. How dare you, I’m better than that. I’m better than you are, actually.'” Shields says the letter was dismissed by the person completely, and eventually, she dropped the issue. “I wanted to erase the whole thing from my mind and body, and just keep on the path that I was on, she said. “The system had never once come to help me, so I just had to get stronger on my own.”
In the documentary, Shields refrains from divulging the identity of the person who sexually assaulted her, as well as any specifics that could be used to identify them. The details of the encounter she presents, however, are reminiscent of the accounts of eight women's experiences with Harvey Weinstein, as reported in the 2017 New York Times exposé, which eventually led to his conviction for sexual misconduct. In that exposé, reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey identified a pattern of Weinstein’s behavior, writing, “Women reported to a hotel for what they thought were work reasons, only to discover that Mr. Weinstein, who has been married for most of three decades, sometimes seemed to have different interests.” Whether it was Weinstein or not, it’s clearly a destructive pattern that’s played out throughout Hollywood for decades.
Aubtu.biz is a website that provides you with sport updates and Entertainment news to brighten your day. Don’t hesitate to visit our site to know more about TV & Movies.
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