Brooke Shields believes her mother was ‘in love’ with her

The 57-year-old model and actress has made a disturbing revelation about her “sad and broken” relationship with her mother.

Brooke Shields has never disputed the complicated relationship she shared with her late mother, Teri.

Known within the industry as Brooke’s fierce protector and manager, their relationship was eerily parallel to one shared between Drew Barrymore and her mother, Jaid.

While appearing on The Drew Barrymore Show to promote her documentary Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, the model and actress was asked if Teri had ever dated one of Brooke’s boyfriends, as Barrymore’s mother had,

“No, ‘cause she was in love with me. I was her main focus,” Shields revealed. “And both of us were going to be cut off from our sexuality; I was gonna stay a virgin, she was going to be just Teri Terrific and being there.”

“I think my mum might have been so enamoured with me that she actually wanted to be with the people I was with,” Barrymore admitted.

“I don’t get it, but I get it,” Shields responded. “It’s so layered and it’s so needy and it’s so sad and broken.”

It was also controlling, according to Shields.

Teri Shields and Brooke Shields (Photo by Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)

Shields in 1980 film The Blue Lagoon.

Explaining why her mother often sat in on her interviews while she was growing up, Shields explained, “It was, ‘No one’s gonna get you, I’m gonna – I’m gonna be there. I’m there first. You’re mine. I’m not gonna give you to somebody’.”

It was something she said Teri did “under the guise of protection”, although Shields believes “it was more ownership and fear”.

In hindsight, both Shields and Barrymore understand the complexities of their respective relationships, although at the time, it was all they knew.

“It was all I knew. You know what I mean,” Shields detailed. “But we got stuff. It’s like I did a movie and we got a car,” Shields said, of the rewards to her lifestyle.

“All I knew was, keep my mother alive, keep dancing, and get stuff.”

Actor Drew Barrymore with her mother Jaid.

Teri passed away in 2012 from a dementia-related illness.

“But to emerge from it, not angry or jaded, is in there” Shields said, pointing to Barrymore’s heart.

“It’s something in your character, it’s in my character. Doing this documentary, um – it’s given me a life in the most interesting way,” the 57-year-old shared.

“It’s about a bigger story. And it’s about a female story and a female journey. And finding your voice. And finding your agency, whenever it is.”

Despite the challenging nature of their relationships with their mothers, both Shields and Barrymore agreed that at the end of the day, their mums were their mums.

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