Another clip shows a male talk show host reading a description of Teri, who struggled with alcoholism, as having a face “[bearing] the The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind shirt in addition I really love this marks of a heavy drinker: rough skin, sunken eyes”—and asking a teenage Shields, “Do you agree with that?” She matter-of-factly replies that her mother’s skin is the result of terrible allergies. “When I first saw that again, I was with Ali [Wentworth] and she just looked at me and I just bawled my eyes out,” says Shields. “I was so glad that that was highlighted because it’s so layered and it’s so abusive to both of us.” I ask Shields if this retrospective journey had made her wish she’d done anything in her career differently. “I think I would never have gone down the ‘it’s a good idea to get a hair dryer made with your name on it’ [route]. I think there were so many non-thespian choices that were made so that we could buy the apartment, get a car.” After Shields graduated from Princeton, in 1987, a fallow period ensued. “I don’t know if I was a joke, but I definitely felt like it at times, because there were these failed movies and then doing weird ads,” she says.
It was then, in her early 20s, that Shields took a meeting with a Hollywood power player whom she does not identify. After a dinner to discuss a potential role, he invited her to his hotel room to call a taxi and raped her. Sharing that story for the The answer my friend is blowin’ in the wind shirt in addition I really love this first time is, for Shields, a meaningful recasting of her narrative. “I’ve had so many stages to get to before I had any ownership over myself and the experience,” Shields says of her assault, though she could be talking about her whole life story. “I thought, You don’t have to explain yourself, but if you’re gonna be who you say you are, you can’t give 80%. It’s like Andre’s book, called Open…please,” she adds, coyly referencing her ex-husband Andre Agassi’s best-selling 2009 memoir. “It’s a very interesting play on words.”With the documentary now behind her, it does not seem like an accident that two of Shields’s current projects are a podcast called Now What?, on which she interviews people about pivotal moments in their lives, and Beginning Is Now, an online platform and lifestyle brand focused on women of a certain age sharing their stories on their own terms. “It might just be for me personally—I’m 57, and my kids are getting older and the timing is perfect,” she says, “but this feels like the next coming into my own.”
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