In conversation with Drew Barrymore, Brooke Shields talks about trauma and reveals that her mother was in love with her

Drew Barrymore, star of “As Panteras”, has been widely praised for the interview with the also actress Brooke Shields, of “The Blue Lagoon”, on “The Drew Barrymore Show”. Already in its third season, Drew receives celebrities to talk about the most diverse subjects.

In addition to professional colleagues, both began their film careers early. Barrymore was just 11 months old when she made her first commercial, while Shields was a favorite model with fashion photographers growing up. The actresses talked about the traumas accumulated by the sensationalist media of the time in a very frank and vulnerable way.

They also shared the identification they have about the problematic relationship with their respective mothers. Drew, who emancipated herself from her parents at the age of 14, revealed that her mother “stole” her boyfriends. “I was so confused about sexuality because my mom would go and hang out with my boyfriends,” she said.

Asked if she had been through something similar, Brooke replied that she had not, as her mother “was in love” with her. “I was her main focus and we were both cut off from our sexuality. I would have to remain a virgin,” she explained.

The star of “Lagoa Azul” tells about the relationship with her mother and other career traumas in the recently released documentary “Pretty Baby”, a title inspired by the 1978 film “Menina Bonita”, in the which Brooke played a prostituted girl and who was consequently sexualized by the media. “We both had mothers who needed to guide us, keep us alive and take care of us,” said the actress. “And they were broken.”

Me Too Movement

At one point in the interview, Drew asked if the #MeToo movement, which gained strength in 2017 in the United States, helped her friend to understand what she lived between the 1980s and 1990s. .

“I didn’t feel like I was part of that movement, that I could communicate with it, because I experienced things that were so inappropriate for the age I was. I was confused, like: ‘How responsible was I in the situations I put myself in? Where I was? Was I a part of these things?”

revealed to have felt something similar because he did not know “where he fit in the spectrum” of the movement.

I didn’t know how to interpret my experiences because I was made to feel guilty and at the same time ashamed of being the victim.

Brooke Shields, on the #MeToo movement

“But we were so young and everything was considered so ‘proper’ that I couldn’t feel pity – I didn’t even know, I didn’t know what that meant. So when they linked me to the movement I was like, ‘Hm, no. I won’t go there. This did not happened'”.

“I was happy that the movement was happening, but I felt like I was experiencing a lot of things that were gray and weird, I didn’t know it was wrong,” added Barrymore, revealing that motherhood (She is the mother of two girls: Olive, 10, and Frankie, 9) helped her understand better.

Shields, also a mother of two teenagers (Rowan, 19, and Grier, 16) agreed: “I think that helps, but appropriating that reality has never been in my heart… AndI didn’t know how to handle any of it so I just brushed it under the rug,” she explained.

affective life

Another well commented point about the interview between the Hollywood stars was their affective lives, as troubled as the other subjects. In the 1990s, Brooke Shields was married to Andre Agassi, a former professional tennis player.

In an extremely abusive relationship, Shields recalled when her then-husband watched the filming of her participation in the series “Friends“. Playing Erika, a woman obsessed with Joey’s character, she licked the actor’s fingers. Upon seeing the action, which was part of the scene, Agassi freaked out and stormed home.

“He was so angry that he broke all the trophies he had won in his life. Everything that was important to him, he destroyed.”

Barrymore took the opportunity to tell his story. Divorced three times, she vented that she no longer wants to marry. “You try to do your job during the day and you come home at night to a man who doesn’t want to know how to handle it and I do nothing but empathize with them and try to make them okay,” she said.

You can watch excerpts of the interview, in English, on “The Drew Barrymore Show” channel on YouTube.