Drew Barrymore & Brooke Shields Explain Why They Felt They Couldn't Speak Up During #MeToo Movement

Drew Barrymore and Brooke Shields are both former child stars who experienced a lot of things that children shouldn’t go through, but they both felt they couldn’t speak up during the #MeToo movement.

Brooke appeared on the Tuesday (April 11) episode of Drew‘s talk show to open up about her new documentary Pretty Baby.

Drew asked, “How did you feel about the Me Too Movement in the sense of, I didn’t feel like I had a dog in that race, 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 that I’m so confused about what was I accountable for, what did I put myself into…we were children. How did that movement affect you, did you feel like you could speak to it?”

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Brooke responded, “No, because I didn’t know where I fell on the spectrum of it. I don’t know where to interpret my experiences because I was made to feel culpable, and by the same time, you victim shame yourself, but we were so young and it was appropriate that we just, I couldn’t feel sorry, I didn’t know what it was, I didn’t know, and so when it was called out to me as such I was like, ‘No, not going there. It did not happen.’”

“That’s exactly how I felt,” Drew said. “I felt like I couldn’t speak to the movement and I was so happy it was happening but I felt like I experienced too many things that were so gray and so awkward and that I didn’t know were wrong at the time, I guess as an adult with hindsight, as a mother of daughters.”

Brooke added, “As a mother with daughters I think that’s what helps with the perspective of it. But the ownership of it, or the ownership of the reality of it, that never was in my, I did not know how to handle any of that so I just pushed it under the rug.”

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