Actress Brooke Shields has opened up about her controversial interview with Barbara Walters…
Shields spoke about “the fiasco” during Tuesday’s episode of The Drew Barrymore Show.
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Brooke Shields is known for her tagline: “Want to know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing.”
But before this, the actress had a pretty impressive resume.
Shields started her career with Pretty Baby back in 1978.
She played the role of a child pr*stitute and it was considered very controversial.
This was followed by another blockbuster, the romance adventure drama The Blue Lagoon in 1980.
Shields has proved herself to be so much more than her early films and her broad range of work as an adult would be quite an achievement for anyone, especially given how difficult transitioning from child actor to adult often is.
And from then onwards she never stopped working…
She finally had her own sitcom Suddenly Susan in 1996 and even became an author.
Shields also managed to work on a degree from Princeton University.
She has received a number of awards during her career, most notably The People’s Choice award for 1981 through 1984 in the category of Favorite Young Performer.
In 1997, she was honored again with The People’s Choice award for Favorite Female Performer in a New Television Series 1997 for her work in Suddenly Susan.
In her personal life, she was married in 1997 to tennis player Andre Agassi, but the pair later divorced 2 years later.
She married for the second time in 2001 to Chris Henchy.
And had been very open about using fertility treatments to become pregnant with their daughter, Rowan, born in 2003.
Her book, Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression, described her experience with depression after the birth of her daughter.
Recently, Shields has recalled the time when Barbara Walters grilled her.
During Tuesday’s episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, Shields said she felt Walters was after a “negative soundbite.”
The interview took place back in 1981.
“She asked me what my measurements were and asked me to stand up,” Shields, who was fifteen at the time, told Barrymore.
“And I stand up, and she was like comparing herself to this little girl. And I thought, ‘This isn’t right. I don’t understand what this is.’”
“But I just behaved and just smiled,” she said, acknowledging that she “felt so taken advantage of in so many ways.”
Shields referred to her interview with Walters as “practically criminal” and “not journalism.”
Barrymore also shared her own unpleasant Walters story and said that she loves, admires, and looks up to The View creator.
“I never thought of Barbara Walters in a negative light, nor do I,” as Shields “absolutely” agreed.
Still, Barrymore did not like it when the television personality would ask what she felt were invasive questions.
“She was like ‘Talk to me about the dr*gs and alcohol, talk to me about your mother, talk to me about bisexuality, talk to me about everything,’” Barrymore claimed.
“And I kept saying, ‘You know, Barbara, I’m really doing well,’ and it was five, six, seven times over,” she added.
“But then you learn to say no,” Shield said, bringing up another unsettling sit-down she did when she was around “10 or something.”
“This woman asked the same question repeatedly,” Shields said, clarifying that this interviewer was not Walters.
“I don’t think you wanna know my answer because you keep asking me the same question, and this is my answer but I can’t change it because it’s my truth,” she said.
What do you think?