Garry gross brooke shields

Sugar and spice 1975.

Brooke Shields reveals she was raped in 'Pretty Baby' documentary: 'Stay alive and get out'

In her heartbreaking new documentary, "Pretty Baby," Brooke Shields opens up for the first time about being raped in her 20s.

Brooke shields young

Gary gross

Sugar and spice 1975

View Brooke Shields The Woman in the Child three photographs by Garry Gross on artnet.

1978 portfolio by Garry Gross published by a 1985 vintage Italian magazine.

In the film, which premiered Friday at Sundance Film Festival, the former child model reveals her struggle to find acting work after graduating from Princeton University in 1987. Feeling vulnerable, and questioning whether her career had already peaked, she jumped at the opportunity to discuss a new movie role when an acquaintance asked her to dinner.

"I thought it was a work meeting," Shields explains in the documentary. "I had met this person before and he was always nice to me." But soon into their meal, she realized "his behavior was changing and there was no talk about the movie."

Ranked: All the best movies we saw at Sundance Film Festival (including 'Judy Blume Forever')

Shields offered to get her own cab home, but the man insisted that he call one f