Brooke Shields remembers horrifying second fan tried to chop off her hair whereas selling controversial movie aged 12

Brooke Shields has opened up concerning the horrifying second a fan tried to chop off her hair when she was at a screening of Fairly Child aged 12.

Shields started modelling when she was lower than one-year-old and bagged her first main film function in Fairly Child on the age of 11.

Within the 1978 film, Shields performs a sexually-exploited little one who lives at a brothel in 1917 New Orleans.

The controversial film noticed Shields seem nude in a number of scenes, whereas she additionally kissed her then-27-year-old co-star Keith Carradine.

Within the 2024 documentary Brooke Shields: Fairly Child, Carradine admitted that there was ‘no manner that movie can be made at present’.

“Nor ought to we,” he added.

Shields has spoken candidly of the affect the film had on her life and profession, saying she was pigeonholed as some type of ‘intercourse image’ even at such a younger age.

In a brand new interview, she recalled a genuinely terrifying second that occurred whereas she was selling the film on the 1978 Cannes Movie Competition when she was simply 12.

“There was such a frenzy about me,” the actor stated on The Bossticks podcast.

“And it was crowds of individuals… them making an attempt to chop off my hair, and it was insane.”

She went on to inform the podcast’s shocked hosts that she believed the followers have been making an attempt to get their arms on a ‘piece of her’.

The 61-year-old stated the expertise was nearly sufficient to place her off performing ever once more.

“My mother and I have been like, ‘Nope, by no means once more. No extra films for us. Return to modelling,'” she stated.

In her 2014 memoir There Was a Little Woman, Shields shared extra particulars on the horrific incident, explaining that she was making an attempt to stroll by way of the ‘disorderly’ crowd along with her mom’s pal Bob Karsian when it occurred.

“Out of the nook of my eye I noticed a hand and a glimmer of metallic,” she wrote.

“A fan had reached out to me and grabbed a clump of my hair and was nearly to chop it off with a pair of scissors. Bob karate-chopped the arm away and I escaped.”

Karisian has additionally opened up concerning the creepy incident, telling reporters in 1978 that the male fan later apologised for making an attempt to chop the younger star’s hair and instructed him: “I do not know what made me try this.”

Shields has beforehand stated the 1978 movie competition was an occasion ‘that will scar me for all times’ and that it was ‘years’ earlier than she might attend the annual movie competition once more.