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| | Brooke Shields on post-partum depression: I was suicidal | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Brooke Shields has been talking about her struggles with post-partum depression for years. Since 2005, to be exact. That?s when she published her memoir on the subject, Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression. The book could have just been an eye-opening, acclaimed first-person story that shined a light on a tricky subject that was (and perhaps still is) seen as shameful and stigmatized in our society. Unfortunately, the book and Brooke herself became center-stage as Tom Cruise and the Church of Scientology twisted the message of the book (?get help, go to a therapist, maybe go on anti-depressants, anything to get through a difficult time? basically) into their own anti-psychiatry, anti-medication message. Tom and Brooke fought about it publicly (?You?re so glib,? Tom told Matt Lauer when Lauer brought up Brooke?s book and message). Brooke and Tom eventually buried the hatchet, and Tom probably got Brooke some additional book sales in the end.
Anyway, Brooke is talking about PPD again, and this time she?s discussing how she came dangerously close to driving into a wall, she was so suicidal. It?s a powerful story:
Brooke Shields has been open about her struggles with post-partum depression, but in revealing new comments she expresses the true depths of her suffering.
Shields, 44, spoke movingly about the stigma of depression and her experience battling the disease on Monday while receiving an advocacy award from the Hope for Depression Research Foundation in Manhattan.
“We think and we feel that we should just be able to handle it on our own,” said the actress, who is mom to two girls, Rowan, 6, and Grier, 3. “I’ve always been strong enough to get through every single difficult situation in my life. I grew up in an addictive household. My mother [Teri] had acute alcoholism. It’s in my blood. I was never going to be the one to succumb to it.”
After a miscarriage and seven IVF attempts, she gave birth to daughter Rowan in 2003 with her husband, TV writer Chris Henchy. “I finally had a healthy beautiful baby girl and I couldn’t look at her,” she said of the depression she felt. “I couldn’t hold her and I couldn’t sing to her and I couldn’t smile at her … All I wanted to do was disappear and die.”
In her deepest moments of despair she said, that the disease led her to believe, “I should not exist. The baby would be better off without me. Life was never going to get better ? so I better just go.”
Shields was prescribed medication, though she stopping taking it one point, thinking she didn’t need them. “That was the week I almost did not resist driving my car straight into a wall on the side of the freeway,” she told the crowd. “My baby was in the back seat and that even pissed me off because I thought she’s even ruining this for me. I just wanted to drive into the wall and my friend stayed on the phone with me and made me safely get home.”
She later called her doctor to ask for more help, and was eventually diagnosed with a chemical imbalance. “I learned what was going on inside my body and what was going on inside my brain,” she said. “I learned I wasn’t doing anything wrong to feel that way. That it was actually out of my control.”
Looking back, she said, “If I had been diagnosed with any other disease, I would have run to get help. I would have worn it like a badge … I didn’t at first ? but finally I did fight. I survived.”
[From People]
This is one of the reasons I like Brooke - and I think her book and her interviews on the subject were eye-opening, and she made a lot of conversations happen. Do you think Xenu will allow Tom Cruise to let this one go by? I hope so. Tom seems to have learned his lesson, sort of, about telling (ordering) women to reject a psychiatric diagnosis of post-partum depression. I think the message finally got through to Tom - even if he truly believes that women shouldn’t get medical help for PPD, he definitely shouldn?t say it out loud.
Brook Shields attended the Hope for Depression Research Foundation annual seminar and luncheon in New York City, New York on November 16, 2009. Credit: Fame.
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| | Brooke Shields is a total bitch to LA store's staffers customers | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Does Brooke Shields have a reputation as a bitch? I posed that question to Google, and I came up empty. So if Google?s got nothing, I guess Brooke might actually be one of the nicer celebrities. But this report from Fox News 411 makes it sound like Brooke was having one of those ?I?ll cut the next bitch who gives me dares to speak to me? days. Fox claims that Brooke was shopping with ?two guy friends? at an Hermes sample sale (I wish I was there). Brooke and her friends were basically being big bitches to everyone in the store, mocking customers and being nasty to the staff, if this report is to be believed.
Sometimes Brooke Shields isn’t so nice to retail staff.
The one-time wife to admitted crystal meth-taker Andre Agassi was shopping in New York City with two male companions when sources say she exhibitied a surprisingly rude attitude and major diva behavior, given her sweet-as-pie reputation.
Shields, 44, was apparently getting some time off from her two little girls, Grier, 3, and Rowan, 6, when shoppers spotted her at an Hermes sample sale.
“Brooke was in a snit when she walked in the store. She had two guy friends with her and they were joking around and mocking people,” an eyewitness tells Fox411.
Then the model/TV star started getting snippy with a sales associate while searching for a bargain on Birkin bags and glassware, says the source. “A sales associate offered to show her some watches she was looking at when she bit his head off!”
Apparently, Shields took the offer of aid as an affront of sorts.
“When she was asked, like every other customer, if she needed any help, Brooke was truly rude. She could have said ‘no thanks,’ but instead said, ‘If I needed any help, I would ask for it!’” says the source. “People were definitely staring at her by that point!”
The former supermodel then sashayed down the aisles making jokes, says the onlooker. As Brooke continued to shop, she turned to her friends, holding up a champagne flute, and said, “If we bought these, we would have to have a gorgeous man serve us champagne as we sat around drinking all day.”
Um, what?
“Brooke could have used a glass of champagne to loosen her up,” joked the fellow bargain shopper. “She was tense and quite rude. She seemed to be there to make fun with her friends more than she was actually shopping. The second she walked out of the store, all the women turned to ask if that really was Brooke Shields acting obnoxious in public.”
That seems to be the case.
[From Fox News 411]
I have a feeling this is going to be one of those Salma-Hayek-throwing-a-hissy-fit situations where I side with a celebrity because I?m just as guilty of being as big a bitch as some of these stars. While I?ve never ?pulled a Salma? and cussed out a hostess, I have been rude to wait staff a couple of times when I thought their service was extremely sub-par. As for the Brooke situation, that?s more my deal, although to me it just sounds like Brooke was hanging out with some of her best gay friends (clue: Hermes) and they were maybe a bit drunk and they didn?t want to be bothered. Just my take.
Brooke Shields is shown on 10/27/09 at an Alzheimer’s Association benefit. Credit: WENN.com
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| | Brooke Shields Keeps Busy Amidst Nude Photo Debacle | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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She’s always up to something, and yesterday afternoon (September 30) Brooke Shields was spotted out and about in Brentwood.
The veteran actress made her exit from a local fitness center, sporting a sleek black dress while chatting away incessantly on her iPhone as the paparazzi fired away.
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Keeping busy with her upcoming movie, Brooke Shields was spotted grabbing some coffee before heading to work earlier today (August 12) in Boston, Massachusetts.
The “Lipstick Jungle” actress looked cute in a knee-length skirt, white top, jean jacket and some gold flats while walking to the set of “Furry Vengeance.”
In other news, it’s no secret the 44-year-old is in killer shape and when asked by People magazine how she does it, Brooke jokingly replies, “I’m a closet superhero.”
Shields then revealed her real secret which is a combination of yoga and spinning, plus she stays away from the dumbbells so she doesn’t bulk up. She explains, “It’s not safe for me to work with weights at the moment because I just get a bit ... I respond quickly.”
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| | Statement by reporter who checked Brooke Shields' mom out of nursing home | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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The National Enquirer has a new article explaining the circumstances behing the much talked-about incident in which a freelance reporter checked Brooke Shields’ mom out of a nursing home.
Brooke was outraged that her mom Teri, who suffers from dementia, was allowed to leave her assisted living facility with the reporter, and issued a statement about it to People Magazine. When she learned that her mother was out with a reporter that day she called the cops, who found Teri having lunch with the man at a nearby restaurant. The National Enquirer explained at the time that Teri had been friends with the reporter for over 10 years and that the visit was a planned one that was approved by the facility. They said that Teri and the guy ran some errands and had something to eat and that she was never in any danger.
The Enquirer now has a personal statement from the freelance reporter, Bob Hartlein, who was with Teri that day. He explains that he is good friends with Teri Shields and used to hang out and watch TV with her at her house in New Jersey. He had no idea that Teri had dementia and says he first heard about it from Brooke and her lawyer. He admits that he did run stories on Brooke Shields using things Teri told him, but says that he was genuinely fond of her and knows her well. They even include a picture with the story that was taken in May, 2008 and shows Hartlein kissing Teri Shields affectionately on the head as she smiles. She is dressed up well in the photo and looks coherent and aware.
When Brooke Shields and her lawyer first revealed the details of her mother’s “dementia,” I was shocked and upset at that tragic news. In the 10 years I’ve known Teri Shields, I’ve found her to be more in control of her faculties - and certainly more outspoken - than most young people I know.
When I first interviewed Teri in 1999, I didn’t expect to become her friend. She was 65 at the time, and she’d agreed to talk to me about her ongoing battle with alcoholism.
“I knew I needed help last year (1998) after I passed out in a New York City department store,” Teri confessed to me. “I was so sick, I couldn’t remember.”
Her brutal honesty and heartfelt attitude endeared me to this lovely woman. She was not the tough divorcee often described in press reports.
After our first meetings, I spent many afternoons with Teri in her comfortable Haworth, NJ, home, which is near my own. We watched TV (”Dr. Phil” was a favorite) and chatted endlessly about her love of movies.
It was an unconventional relationship over the years between the mother of a world-famous movie star and a freelance tabloid reporter, but I always treated Teri with the same warmth, kindness and respect that I do my own mother, who is 82.
Most of our wonderful afternoons together never resulted in a story, but one thing remained consistent. Teri was always clear to me about how much she loved Brooke…
Maybe not everyone was pleased with my relationship with Teri over the years, but I wish only the best health for my friend. She is truly a special woman.
[From The National Enquirer, print edition, June 22, 2009, by Bob Hartlein]
Brooke and the National Enquirer settled their disagreement over the incident. The Enquirer issued an apology and made an undisclosed, said to be “generous” donation to The American Academy of Neurology Foundation. Their statement reads, in part, “It was never the intention of the reporter, the photographer or anyone at the National Enquirer to cause harm to anyone,” and they also state that the “police investigation revealed no wrongdoing by the National Enquirer” but add that they “apologize for alarming Brooke Shields.”
This story is not as cut and dried as it originally seemed. Brooke and Teri have had a contentious relationship over the years, with Teri admitting that she’s an alcoholic while trash talking Brooke and her current husband to the Enquirer. You can see how she would befriend a reporter and confide in him if she has another agenda. She also probably genuinely appreciated the company. Brooke is doing her best for her mom under their difficult circumstances and it’s understandable that she would get outraged that Teri was allowed to leave her nursing home with a reporter. She may not believe her mom is capable of making her own decisions now, while her mom doesn’t seem willing to give up her independence. Hopefully they will be able to bury old grudges for the sake of their family and put this whole thing behind them.
Here is Brooke out with her mother, Teri, and daughter Grier, three, in NY on 5/10/09.Credit: Daniel/INFphoto.com
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| | Brooke Shields biggest health regret is her virginity | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Seriously OMG WTF |
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Brooke Shields opened up to Health Magazine about her biggest health regret is waiting to lose her virginity.
Q: What’s your biggest health regret?A: Not learning to love the way I looked earlier. And I think I would have had sex a lot earlier! [Laughs.] I think I would have lost my virginity earlier than I did at 22. I had the public and all this pressure, and I wish I had just gotten it over with in the beginning when it was sort of OK. I think I would have been much more in touch with myself. I think I wouldn’t have had issues with weight—I carried this protective 20 pounds [in college]. It was all connected. And to me, that’s a health regret.
If Brooke Shields, looking the way she did, had problems with way she looked, teen girls should look up to her and say none of us like how we look but we should get over it!I am not saying teen girls should lose their virginity at a younger age (they should do that when they are ready) but they should feel more comfortable in their skin.
She also talked about the day Tom Cruise and her made up after he went off on her for taking medicine to get through her postpardum depression.
Q: What happened the day Tom Cruise came over to apologize?A: [Tom] called an hour ahead and said, “Can I?” And I was like, “Uhhh … am I being Punk’d?” I called my husband, I called my publicist, I was like, “What do I do?” I did think, Do we use the front door? because we always use the kitchen door. It’s one of those weird things where I was like, “We need to use the front door!” I had to lock the other door and pull the shade down. I was so relieved when my husband came home and started cooking. And when Katie brought the baby over, it just got defused and we looked at these two babies born on the same day in the same hospital. The irony is insane. But just to look at these babies, [I thought] Really? Life’s short. Let’s just eat an omelet, and we’ll all live our lives and be thankful we have these little people.
Brooke's interview with Health magazine is even more interesting than just these two answers so check it out on stands now.
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| | Brooke Shields was 22 years old when she lost her virginity | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Brooke Shields was giving an interview to Health Magazine, talking about how long it took her to grow comfortable with her body. She says she lost her virginity when she was 22 years old, which I don?t really think is a very big deal. Of course, Brooke was something of a sex symbol at an early age, and the assumption people probably made was that she was sexually active before her twenties, but I think it makes sense. Brooke worked a lot when she was young, and it doesn?t surprise me at all that she would have put her career and academics ahead of sex. It also shows that just because a young woman?s image is hyper-sexualized, doesn?t mean she knows the first thing about sex (cough cough Britney Spears cough Miley Cyrus cough). The Huffington Post has the excerpt from Health Magazine:
Buried in a Health magazine, Brooke Shields let slip how old she was when she lost her virginity - 22 - and her regrets over it.
Q: What’s your biggest health regret?
A: Not learning to love the way I looked earlier. And I think I would have had sex a lot earlier! [Laughs.] I think I would have lost my virginity earlier than I did at 22. I had the public and all this pressure, and I wish I had just gotten it over with in the beginning when it was sort of OK. I think I would have been much more in touch with myself. I think I wouldn’t have had issues with weight–I carried this protective 20 pounds [in college]. It was all connected. And to me, that’s a health regret.
Shields is twice married with two young daughters.
[From The Huffington Post]
CB pointed out that Brooke went to Princeton, enrolling at the age of eighteen (1983) and graduating at the age of 21 (1987). So she went through four years at Princeton with no sex. This caused some conversation between CB and I about the guys we nailed in college, and now I feel some sympathy for Brooke. Were all of the guys at Princeton total nerds? Could none of them man up and ask Brooke out? Or did they ask Brooke out and she just said no, because she was uninterested and/or uncomfortable with her body? And regarding Brooke?s ?20 pounds?, I?ve seen pictures of her from that era in her life, and if she was carrying around an extra 20 pounds, she must have been much too slim before she enrolled.
Brooke Shields is shown at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on 4/25/09, credit: Tina Gill/PRPhotos
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| | Brooke Shields' friends say she's devoted to her mom | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Brooke Shields has long had a semi-strained relationship with her infamous stage mom Teri, but the two are still very much in each other?s lives, according to Brooke?s friends. Brooke recently had to move Teri, 75, into an assisted living community because she is suffering from dementia. Teri?s received a lot of criticism over the years for the way she?s handled Brooke?s career, and Brooke fired her as her manager in 1995. Teri?s also had a relationship with the National Enquirer for at least 10 years. As Celebitchy pointed out in that article, there are lots of issues between the two (Teri is an alcoholic; Brooke can come across as overprotective), and it?s hard to tell who?s right and who?s wrong. But regardless of all that, Brooke?s friends say she?s still a devoted daughter and very good to her mother.
As a child star, Brooke Shields was always watched over by Teri Shields, a stage mom known for her tenacity. And now that her mother has been diagnosed with dementia and is living in an assisted living facility, it’s Brooke who watches over Teri, say friends of the star. “Her devotion is very apparent,? says longtime pal Anna Strasberg. “Brooke takes care of Teri. There’s a bond there. It’s not a public thing for show. It’s very deeply personal.”
? Shields has described Teri ? who was widely criticized for allowing her then-12-year-old daughter to play a child prostitute and appear nude in the 1978 film Pretty Baby ? as an alcoholic. In 1995, Brooke fired her mother as her manager. (Teri divorced Brooke’s father, Frank Shields, when Brooke was an infant.)
But the bond between mother and daughter, at times strained, was never broken. “It was us against everybody,” Brooke recently told More magazine. Shields’s friend Anna Strasberg, who has hosted Brooke and her mother for Thanksgiving and other holidays, notes how Brooke dotes on Teri. “When Brooke has her mother at gatherings, she knows that her friends know the situation and Teri’s not pushed aside ? she is part of her life and that is so beautiful to watch,” she says. “It is painful and it’s beautiful.”
“They watch the floats and the [Thanksgiving] parade go by,? adds Strasberg. “Brooke is very tender and keeps watch over her to make sure she is okay, and that someone is talking to her. Teri may not be able to always have lucid moments, and she may not always be able to voice her feelings, but some moments are beautiful.”
Another of Brooke’s friends, Broadway director Kathleen Marshall, says of Teri’s deteriorating health, “[Brooke]’s very direct and honest but doesn’t dwell on it.”
[From People]
Familial relationships can be incredibly difficult and challenging. There are some that are lucky to have supportive, relatively trouble-free family lives. But most of us have some degree of complexity with our families. It?s impossible for someone outside that relationship to understand all that goes into it, good and bad. Brooke doesn?t strike me as the sort to have simply abandoned her mother or treated her badly, as some articles have suggested. She seems to have made a decision to take the best care of her mother as she possibly can, without letting Teri?s issues affect her life any longer. And that?s completely fair.
Her mother lives in New Jersey, and Brooke and her family live in L.A. for the most part, though they spend a good deal of time in New York City. Teri needs to remain in one place, and it sounds like an assisted living facility is the best situation for her. It doesn?t seem like they?re the closest mother and daughter there ever was, but that happens. It doesn?t mean Brooke?s a bad daughter.
Here?s Brooke spending the day with her family in Soho on December 14th. Images thanks to Pacific Coast News.
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| | S.S. Brooke Shields' Sexy Kurv Photoshoot | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Yeeeah |
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If there’s any way to make a 42-year old woman with a history of depression and a floundering career feel relevant again, it’s taking pictures of her in latex thigh-highs next to a man pulling down his underpants. That’s how mom always explained her wedding photos to me, anyway. Ooh, that reminds me, it’s about time for me to start cutting again. And this Jack and Coke isn’t going to just drink itself, you know!
Brook Shields in the Australian Kurv magazine:
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In 2008, Teri blasted daughter Brooke Shields and her husband in The Enquirer
The National Enquirer ran a story in the February 28, 2008 edition featuring an interview with Brooke Shields’ mother and former manager, Teri. Teri told The Enquirer that Brooke refused to let her babysit her granddaughters and said that her daughter and the girls would only visit her occasionally for a short while. She added that she doesn’t like Brooke’s husband, Chris Henchy, and claimed he is too demanding of her granddaughters and controlling towards Brooke. Teri approved of her daughter’s first husband, Andre Agassi.
In Teri’s 2008 interview with The Enquirer, she told a story that made it clear why Brooke would no longer let her babysit her grandchildren. She also said that she’s an alcoholic and that she still struggles with drinking. It seems there are good reasons for her strained relationship with her daughter:
In an exclusive Enquirer interview, a bitter Teri lashed out at her famous daughter for turning her back on her - and blasted Brooke’s husband Chris Henchy for his “Svengali-like” control.
She also admitted that she has continued to struggle with her alcoholism.
“I don’t see Brooke or my granddaughters much, and if they do come over, it’s only for a little while and then they’re gone,” 74-year-old Teri lamented.
“I wish I could see Brooke, but all she does is work. They were here over Christmas, dropped off some packages and were gone.
“But Brooke always makes time to visit her friends no matter how busy she is.
“I’m often disappointed in her, like the times she snaps, ‘What do you ever do for me?’ That’s what her husband tells her to say.
“I preferred Brooke’s first husband Andre Agassi over Chris.”
Teri says the contempt she holds for TV writer Chris stems from his treatment of her - as well as an incident she witnessed that involved the couple’s first-born daughter Rowan.
“A few years back during a meal in her high chair, Rowan started crying and decided she didn’t want to eat anymore,” Teri told The Enquirer.
“So in a fit, Rowan threw her dishes and food onto the floor. Just then, Chris walks in and in a raised voice says: ‘What’s this?’ He was so angry he made that poor little girl get down on the floor and pick up every last thing. Can you imagine?
“Brooke goes along with whatever he says - that’s the kind of Svengali-like influence he has over her.”
An Enquirer reporter visited with the legendary stage mom at her rambling home in Haworth, NJ.
Teri revealed Brooked banned her from being alone with her daughters because of an incident a few years back when Teri was baby-sitting for Rowan at the couple’s New York City apartment house.
Teri book Rowan in a rocker and left to pick up a food delivery in the lobby - but got stuck in the couple’s private elevator for hours.
“Rowan got out of her rocker and wandered around the apartment, crying and unsupervised,” Teri told The Enquirer.
“Fortunately, nothing happened to her. But that was the end for me - and it breaks my heart.”
[From The National Enquirer, print edition, February 28, 2008]
There’s definitely some bad blood there between Brooke and her mom. It’s also apparent that Teri has a relationship with the National Enquirer and knows at least one journalist there.
Brooke Shields: Tabloid took advantage of mom; Enquirer: we’ve known Teri for over 10 years
Fast forward to over a year later and Teri is staying in a nursing home in New Jersey. A reporter from The Enquirer came to visit her and took her out to run some errands and then to a restaurant next door. Of course they were trying to get some updated dirt on her relationship with her famous daughter, but they clearly know her and have a relationship with her. Brooke Shields was so livid that The Enquirer journalist was allowed to visit her mom she told People Magazine that a tabloid “checked her mother out of a nursing home.” They were only taking her for errands she asked them to run and for lunch down the block. While the Enquirer reporter may have been taking advantage of the situation it’s not like they didn’t know her:
Brooke Shields’s mother, who suffers from dementia, was checked out of a New Jersey nursing home Thursday by a journalist seeking a “tabloid story,” the outraged actress tells PEOPLE.
Teri Shields, 75, was later found unharmed at a restaurant next door to an assisted living center in Old Tappan, N.J., talking to a freelance reporter, according to police, who say no arrests have been made but that the case remains under investigation.
“I intend to take every lawful action against all who were involved or who authorized this despicable act,” Brooke Shields says in a statement to PEOPLE.
The actress claims her mother was targeted by the National Enquirer.
“My mother Teri Shields has been diagnosed with dementia. For her safety, she has temporarily been in a senior living facility, a very difficult decision for me,” she says. “Late Thursday afternoon, I was alerted by Old Tappan Police that my mother had been signed out of the facility by two reporters of the National Enquirer ? who falsely claimed they were friends of hers.”
She adds: “They then drove my 75-year-old mother around looking for a tabloid story. As anyone knows who has a parent who suffers from dementia or Alzheimer’s, it is one of the most difficult experiences you can go through as a son or daughter. The idea that the National Enquirer took advantage of her state is reprehensible and disgusting.”
In a statement, the National Enquirer responds: “A freelance reporter who has known Teri Shields for more than 10 years visited her Thursday at the assisted living facility where Brooke says she moved her. Teri asked the reporter to take her out to lunch and to run some errands. The freelance reporter then got permission from the facility to do so.”
According to Old Tappan Police Department Capt. Thomas Shine, officers were called to the assisted living facility at 3 p.m. Thursday to look for Teri Shields. A supervisor at the facility said the elder Shields had been checked out.
“It was more along the lines that she had been allowed to leave, based upon their protocol or policy,” Shine tells PEOPLE. “It had been an extended period of time” since she left.
“Our officer located her with some form of a journalist, I think a freelance journalist, in an eatery right next door,” Shine continues. “She wasn’t harmed in any way shape or form. She was fine. The officers discussed the circumstances with her. And she literally walked with one of my officers next door to the assisted living center.”
Shine did not identify the journalist or a media outlet.
The journalist was interviewed by police, as was a photographer who was working with the reporter but wasn’t on the scene at the time officer arrived.
No charges have been filed, and the Shields family had not yet sought a criminal complaint, says Shine.
[From People]
People will be quick to condemn the National Enquirer, but there are two sides to every story. Having read some of The Enquirer’s coverage of Brooke’s relationship with her mom, it’s hard to know who to side with. They posted a very plausible account of events on their website, and from their perspective they were just doing their job and weren’t exploiting an elderly lady. If their reporter has known Teri for ten years he may not be aware that she’s less coherent now than she was a year ago or if she’s unable to make her own decisions. You wonder if Brooke was more upset over the way her mom has trashed her in the tabloid in the past and less about the fact that journalists visited her. On the other hand, since Brooke’s mom suffers from dementia you can understand why she is so protective of her and outraged over what happened. It’s not as if they were there to help her out without getting a story. The Enquirer’s account sounds believable to me. At the same time you also question whether Teri is able to make her own decisions at this point and if the facility had the authority to approve the visit.
Here is Brooke out with her mother, Teri, and daughter Grier, three, in NY on 5/10/09. It looks like they’re at least visiting. Credit: Daniel/INFphoto.com
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