There’s that one interview, where they’re reading a review of my mother’s face.” She continued, “'Ruddy and alcoholic.' And this schmuck’s reading it to me, in front of my mother! And then he turns to me and says, 'Is that a proper assessment of your mother?' I go immediately to defending the fact that she has allergies.

You saw these adults, who were supposed to be the smart people in the world, be so lowest common denominator. To have Barbara Walters talk about my measurements? There was nothing intellectual about it.

There was no one place that had even a modicum of integrity. It made me lose so much respect for-excuse me-the press. When asked how she felt being interrogated on talk shows throughout the '80s about her sex life, often while sitting alongside her mother, Shields replied, “It just never ended. They wanted me to be a train wreck, because I was an actress.” But people didn’t want that to be the truth. There was such order, and people cared about me. And while her roles in films like Pretty Baby and The Blue Lagoon may have been controversial, she said, “The irony is that film sets were such a place of safety for me, because I was always accounted for. And she could walk on water-she was my everything,' she explained of her relationship with her late mother, Teri. When you grow up in an alcoholic household, you learn to navigate it at a very young age, and I was an only child. “I’d been parenting, in a way, from the time I was a little girl. In an interview with the New Yorker, the actor and model revealed that as the only child of an alcoholic mother, she learned to be savvy from a young age. Brooke Shields has never seen herself as a victim.

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