Brooke ShieldsandDrew Barrymoreare connecting over their shared reaction to the#MeToo movement.
“I didn’t feel like I had a dog in that race,” Barrymore shared. “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. And I’m so confused about, ‘What was I accountable for? What did I put myself into? Where was I? Was I a part of things?’ "
Similarly, Shields said she also"didn’t know where I fell on the spectrum of"the movement, explaining, “I don’t know where to interpret my experiences, because I was made to feel culpable, [but at] the same time, you victim-shame yourself.”
“But we were so young, and it was [deemed] so ‘appropriate,’ that I couldn’t feel sorry — I didn’t even know. I didn’t know what it was,” the actress and model continued. “So when it was called out to me as such, I was like, ‘Nope, uh-uh, not going there. It did not happen. That did not happen.’ "
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Drew Barrymore and Brooke Shields.The Drew Barrymore Show/Ash Bean
Barrymore told Shields that she felt “exactly” the same way, in the sense that she “felt like I couldn’t speak to the movement.”
“And I was so happy that 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,” she added.
For Barrymore, adult “hindsight” paints a clearer picture, especially “as a mother of daughters.” (She and exWill Kopelmanshare two girls:Olive, 10, andFrankie, 9 this month.)
Agreed Shields, who’s alsomom to two daughters(Rowan, 19, and Grier, 16), “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,” she explained.
After Barrymore mentioned elsewhere in the interview that her own motherJaid Barrymore"went and dated my boyfriends” and asked whether Shields had that same experience, theBlue Lagoonactress said, “No, becauseshe was in love with me.”
“I was her main focus and both of us were gonna be cut off from our sexuality,” Shields recalled of her relationship with her mother, whodied in 2012 at age 79. “I was going to stay a virgin, she was going to be just Teri Terrific and being there.”
“So it’s like … it’s so layered, and it’s so needy and it’s so sad and broken,” she told Barrymore.
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source: people.com
