Painful details revealed. BrookeShields
has spoken publicly for the first time about being raped by an unnamed man when she was in her twenties.which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday , the former child star shared an account of the assault., Shields says the attack took place just after she had graduated from prestigious university Princeton. Shields was struggling to find work at the time and had met with a man for dinner to talk about her career.
She then described how she was feeling uncomfortable, so distracted herself by looking out of the window with binoculars in the room. Explaining how she was fearful that the man would be more violent to her if she fought back, she continued: “I was afraid I’d get choked out or something. So I didn’t fight that much. I didn’t. I just absolutely froze.
Shields says that she “cried all the way to my friend’s apartment”, but failed to acknowledge that she had been assaulted, even when her security specialist said that she had been.“He said, ‘That’s rape’ and I said, ‘I’m not willing to believe that,’” she said, admitting that she felt she was responsible for the attack.