In 1990, well-known gay porn star Billy London was brutally murdered in Los Angeles. His dismembered head and feet were found in a dumpster in West Hollywood, but the rest of his body was never recovered. For more than thirty years, his murder
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Opening up. Brooke Shields looks back at her life in the documentary Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields and, for the first time, discusses being sexually assaulted.
“I did not know if or when or if at all I was ever going to bring this up,” the model, 57, explained to The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday, January 19. “It has taken me many years of therapy to even be able to talk about it. I definitely have worked very hard through it, and I’ve learned to process it.”
In the new movie — which premiered on Friday, January 20, at Sundance Film Festival — Shields recalled struggling to find film roles after her 1987 graduation from Princeton University. She was excited to meet with an old friend about a possible project, and he invited her back to his hotel room in order to call a cab.
“I just absolutely froze,” the Blue Lagoon star said in the documentary via Rolling Stone. “My one ‘no’ should have been enough. And I just thought, ‘Stay alive, and get out.’ And I just shut it out. And god knows I knew how to be disassociated from my body. I’d practiced that.”
Shields continued: “I wanted to erase the whole thing from my mind and body, and just keep on the path I was on. And the system had never once come to help me, you know? So, I just had to get stronger on my own.”
The film, directed by Lana Wilson (who helmed Taylor Swift‘s Miss Americana doc) shows Shields processing her feelings, from initially refusing a bodyguard who said the incident was rape to eventually writing her assailant a scathing letter.
“I’ve come to a place, and we’ve come to a time in our society, where we can talk about these things much more openly,” Shields told THR. “I had no idea I was going to say it. I thought, I have arrived at this place, and I feel as a
In 1990, well-known gay porn star Billy London was brutally murdered in Los Angeles. His dismembered head and feet were found in a dumpster in West Hollywood, but the rest of his body was never recovered. For more than thirty years, his murder
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In her forthcoming documentary about her life and long career, Brooke Shields describes in detail an assault she experienced at the hands of somebody she terms “an industry insider”.
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Similar to the stars of Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 film Romeo & Juliet, who are suing Paramount for $100M+ for alleged sexual abuse and more, Brooke Shields also had an unsettling experience with the 2x Oscar nominated filmmaker during the production of Endless Love.
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