Highlights
- Brooke Shields appeared uncomfortable during her interview on The Drew Barrymore Show, with fans questioning the host’s overly touchy behavior.
- Fans believed Shields was in denial about her mother exploiting her as a child star, but both actresses emphasized their accountability and strength.
- Shields and Barrymore struggled to find their place in the #MeToo movement, with confusion over their own experiences and feelings of victim-shaming themselves.
Drew Barrymore and Brooke Shields share a tragic childhood in Hollywood. So, when the two finally sat down for a one-on-one chat in April 2023, they both got so emotional. But many viewers thought the Blue Lagoon star was uncomfortable with The Drew Barrymore Show host’s clingy antics.
Others also noticed that Shields was “in denial” of her mother “exploiting” her as a millionaire child star. The Charlie’s Angels alum weighed in saying their moms were just so “in love” with them. Barrymore was famously emancipated from her parents at 14. Here’s why fans have a hard time watching the interview where the actresses also discussed their place in the #MeToo movement.
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Brooke Shields Looked “Uncomfortable” During Drew Barrymore’s “Claustrophobic” Interview
Right when Barrymore welcomed Shields to her show, they told each other, “Don’t start [crying]” before the “claustrophobic” interview. But It wasn’t easy opening up about her difficult childhood. Shields went on the show to promote her documentary, Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields.
“It’s all of our story,” she told the host. “It’s just played out differently. But we’re all daughters. And we’re all people who are just trying to get through life.” Shields was seen holding back her tears. Moments like this in the interview had fans calling it a “revelation.”
Barrymore responded: “I think that you and I have taken such incredible accountability for our lives. We’ve never put the blame on people. We act strong and not broken or victim. Like that has always been our narrative.”
Still, even Barrymore’s fans thought Shields was uncomfortable with all the physical touch. “I love Drew. But I feel like soon Drew will be sitting directly on guests laps during interviews,” one wrote under the YouTube comments. Another netizen said: “I love how genuine Drew is but I feel like she would be invading my personal space bubble too much.”
Both Brooke Shields and Drew Barrymore started their careers when they were only 11 months old.
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When Shields started talking about her “momager,” she sounded forgiving, which fans thought was her “in denial” of being “exploited” by her parent. But when Barrymore asked if the guests’ mother was always in her interviews to “protect” her, fans noticed a “look of complete and utter shock and confusion on Brooke’s face.”
“It was more ownership and fear,” Shields explained, adding that all she knew was “keep my mother alive” in reference to both her and Barrymore paying the rent as child stars. So fans weren’t so sold on the former saying, “To emerge from it, not angry or jaded is in there. It’s something in your character.”
A fan wrote: “I watch the documentary and just sad how her and mom and father failed her and she is still in denial but I think that’s her way of coping her parents failed her tremendously and all of those people should have went to jail.”Another one felt “she still has work to do on herself unfortunately (but comprehensibly). She seems to still be in denial and unaware of her people-pleasing/self-abandoning behaviors, for instance.”
Here’s a timeline of Shields’ complicated childhood:
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1966 |
Brooke Shields’ parents, Teri and Frank Shields Jr. divorced when she was just 5 months old (just a year after they tied the knot) |
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1978 |
11-year-old Brooke Shields played a child prostitute in Louis Malle’s Pretty Baby |
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1980 |
At 14, she starred in the incestuous erotic film, Blue Lagoon |
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1981 |
She starred in Endless Love where she had multiple love scenes |
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1990s |
She had suffered from bankruptcy twice because her mom’s “financial philosophy was [that] we work to live for the now, not for the future.” |
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Drew Barrymore And Brooke Shields Didn’t Know How To Fit In The #MeToo Movement
Talking about #MeToo, Barrymore and Shields felt “confused” about where their past fits in the movement. “I didn’t feel like I had a dog in that race,” the former admitted. “I didn’t feel like I could speak to it, because I experienced so many things that were so inappropriate at such a young age.”
She continued: “I’m so confused about, ‘What was I accountable for? What did I put myself into? Where was I? Was I a part of things?’” The latter also “didn’t know where I fell on the spectrum of. I don’t know where to interpret my experiences, because I was made to feel culpable, [but at] the same time, you victim-shame yourself.”
They even refused to acknowledge their #MeToo-related experiences. “But we were so young, and it was [deemed] so ‘appropriate,’ that I couldn’t feel sorry — I didn’t even know. I didn’t know what it was,” Shields explained. “So when it was called out to me as such, I was like, ‘Nope, uh-uh, not going there. It did not happen. That did not happen.’”
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Source: NewsFinale
