(ANSA) - WASHINGTON, JAN 21 - Actress Brooke Shields revealed she was raped when she was a young actress in Hollywood in the new documentary about her life "Pretty Baby", which premiered at the Sundance film festival.
The former supermodel did not reveal the identity of her rapist, but she said she saw the man, whom she already knew, soon after she graduated, believing it was a business meeting about a new film.
The man took her to her hotel telling her that she would call a taxi from her room and instead of her he stripped and then attacked her.
"I was afraid of being suffocated," Shields recalled in the documentary.
"I didn't even fight, I just said to myself: 'Stay alive and then run away''".
The revelation is one of many shocking moments in the film, which will be released on the streaming platform Hulu in two parts.
Part One examines the intense sexualization Shields experienced as a young girl, including a highly controversial nude photoshoot when she was just 10 years old, and her appearance as a child prostitute in the film 'Pretty Baby' a year after her.
The film, which was received at the Festival with a standing ovation, also chronicles her subsequent media obsession with her virginity, her mother's alcoholism and her first marriage to tennis star Andre Agassi.
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