Brooke Shields said her mom never dated anyone because she was “in love with her” in a shocking interview on Tuesday’s episode of The Drew Barrymore Show.
The Blue Lagoon star, 57, promoting her documentary Pretty Baby: Brooke Shield. got brutally honest about her relationship with her late mother Teri Shields, who died in 2012, calling her parents’ relationship “needy and weird.”
Meanwhile, ET actress Drew, 48, was able to chime in as she shared her own stories about her relationship with her mother, Jaid Barrymore, 76.
Drew asked Brooke – who recently revealed she was taken off Tom Cruise’s cake list – if her mother had dated one of Brooke’s partners – as Drew’s mother did.
“No, because she was in love with me,” Brooke claimed, adding that her mother had no interest in men as she ran her daughter’s career.
Candid: Brooke Shields said her mom never dated anyone because she was “in love with her” in a shocking interview on Tuesday’s episode of The Drew Barrymore Show
The Blue Lagoon star, 57, promoting her documentary Pretty Baby: Brooke Shield. became brutally honest about her relationship with her late mother Teri Shields, who died in 2012, calling her parents’ relationship “needy and weird” (pictured together in 1978)
“I was her main focus. We were both cut off from our sexuality,” de Suzanna added.
Drew then shared her own experiences about a time when her mother tried to date Jaid with her boyfriend.
“My mom was so enamored with me that she wanted to be with the people I was with,” the Never Been Kissed explained.
“I see,” Brooke replied. “It’s so needy and weird,” adding that her mother accompanied her to every interview she had when she was younger.
‘No one will catch you. I’ll be there. I’ll be there first. You’re mine. I’m not giving you to anyone,’ Brooke said.
“Under the guise of protection, but it was more possession and fear, I think,” the Just Shoot Me alum added.
But at the time, Brooke didn’t mind how her mother acted, as she associated the work she did with being able to buy “stuff” for her mother.
“I made a movie and we have a car. All I knew was to keep my mom alive, keep dancing and get things,” she recalls.
Needy and weird: “Nobody gets you. I’ll be there. I’ll be there first. You’re mine. I’m not going to give you to anyone,” Brooke said of her mother accompanying her to every interview
Dating Issues: Drew revealed that her mother tried to date the people she was with
‘But not to come off angry or jaded… that’s in your character. It’s in my character,” said the mother of daughters Rowan, 19, and Grier, 16.
Drew also asked Brooke if her explosive new documentary had any repercussions and if she’d heard from anyone from her past since its release.
Brooke told the Charlie’s Angels star that she received a call from Blue Lagoon executive Randal Kleiser.
“I saw his name on my phone and I was like, ‘Oh, what do I do?’ And I let it go to voicemail because I thought, “I want to see what the tone is,” she said.
Thick as thieves: ‘But not to come off angry or jaded… that’s in your character. It’s in my character,’ said the mother of daughters Rowan (19) and Grier (16)
Little Girl Lost: Drew documented her own dysfunctional relationship with her mother in her memoir Little Girl Lost
The artist then stated that she did not feel she wanted to discuss their experiences at the time.
‘He wants to talk. I don’t know what about, I don’t feel like bringing any of it back,” she said.
The Lipstick Jungle alum further noted that she felt she was functionally exploited during her early years as a performer.
“It was about, you know, these guys needed me to be in a certain category to serve their story and it was never about me, it was never protective of me,” she said.
She concluded by stating that while she had certain fond memories of her early years as an actress, she had come to view many of her past experiences in a negative light.
“It was fun and loving at times, but… I was just there. I was a pawn, I was a piece, I was a commodity,” she said.