Brooke Shields details her sexual assault story for the 'first time'

In a powerful Sundance documentary, actress Brooke Shields reveals she was raped by a Hollywood Insider and shared this is the first time she actually spoke about it on a public forum. 

Brooke was in her early 20's just at Princeton University when she encountered such an incident and held onto this painful memory for quite a long time. 

Although she did open up about the tragedy, she is not ready to identify the assaulter just yet in the documentary. 

However, Brooke's  did affirm that the person was someone she knew very well and was in fact pretty friendly with her. 

"This is the first time I've ever spoken about what happened."

"I had heard there was a movie being made, and I was in consideration. It was the first time since college that any interested was sort of expressed [in me]."

"We had a dinner. I thought it was a work meeting. I had met this person before, and he was always nice to me." But the mood of the meeting abruptly changed midway through the meal, and she quickly began looking to make an exit. "I said, 'I have to get a cab,' and he said, 'Come back to the hotel — I'll call you a cab.'"

She recalled being left alone for a while which only made her confused and restless, "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.'' 

While looking out at the view of the beach with a pair of binoculars her assaulter emerged. She revealed, "The door opens, and the person comes out naked," Brookes continued, "As soon as I put the binoculars back and he was right on me."

"It was like wrestling. I was scared to death of being hit or choked if i fought back .I thought: 'My one 'No' should have been enough. Stay alive and get out." 

 When the assault ended, her still-naked assaulter did not even acknowledge what he had done. She added, "The next thing I know, the door is open and the person says, 'I'll see you around.' I just said 'Yeah,' and walked out, went down in the elevator and got my own cab. I cried all the way to my friend's apartment."

 Brooke  shared she has previously confronted her assaulter through a letter and shared, "I said, 'That was a huge trust that was just blown up. How dare you? I'm better than that. I'm better than you are. That's the way I dealt with things. I wanted to erase the whole thing from my mind and body and just keep on the path that I was on. The system had never once come to help me. So I just had to get stronger on my own."

Unfortunately, it felt like the actress had disassociated herself from her body. She had a similar experience in 1981 on the sets of Franco Zeffirelli’s film titled Endless Love and was just 15 years of age back then in the middle of shooting an intimate scene for a movie.