Actress Brooke Shields has revealed for the first time that she was raped in her 20s, shortly after graduating from college in 1987.

Shields, who has long talked about being s**ualized in Hollywood, details the assault in her new documentary, “Pretty Baby”.

Shields said she had dinner with a man she knew to talk about potential projects and was then convinced to come back to his hotel with the promise that he would call her a cab home.

Once there, the man allegedly disappeared for a while before returning to the room n/ked.

Shields explained, “I just absolutely froze.”

“I thought one ‘No’ should’ve been enough, and I just thought, ‘Stay alive and get out,’ and I just shut it out.”

Shields was too scared to fight back, saying, “I was afraid I’d get choked out or something.” She went on to say that she blamed herself for the assault, thinking that she had put out a message that was received incorrectly.

Shields wrote a letter years later confronting the attacker, but it was ignored.

“I just threw my hands up and said, ‘You know what, I refuse to be a victim because this is something that happens no matter who you are and no matter what you think you’re prepared for or not,'” Shields said.

“The system had never once come to help me.”

“So, I just had to get stronger on my own.”

Shields, who shares two daughters with husband Chris Henchy, has long been vocal about her experiences of being s**ualized in Hollywood.

In her interview with Drew Barrymore last year, she said she “felt so taken advantage of in so many ways”.

Shields appeared n+de in the 1978 film “Pretty Baby” when she was just 11 years old.

She also had racy scenes in “Blue Lagoon” and “Endless Love” when she was 15.

Barbara Walters famously asked Shields for her measurements in an interview when she was 15 years old.

Shields said that she “just behaved and just smiled”.

Shields did not process that she was raped for a long time and blamed herself for the assault.

“I wanted to erase the whole thing from my mind and body and just keep on the path I was on,” Shields said.

“He said to me, ‘I can trust you and I can’t trust people.’ It’s so cliché, it’s practically pathetic.”

“I believed somehow I put out a message and that was how the message was received.”

“I drank wine at dinner. I went up to the room. I just was so trusting.”

Shields went on to explain that she knew how to dissociate from her body, saying, “God knows I knew how to be disassociated from my body.

I’d practiced that.” Shields said she went down the elevator after the assault, got a cab, and “cried all the way to my friend’s apartment.”

“I just threw my hands up and said, ‘You know what, I refuse to be a victim because this is something that happens no matter who you are and no matter what you think you’re prepared for or not,'” Shields said.

“The system had never once come to help me. So, I just had to get stronger on my own.”

Shields said that the experience has made her stronger, and she refuses to let it define her.

She wants to share her story to help other people who have been through similar experiences.

“It’s not your fault,” she said. “It’s not your shame. It’s not your burden.”