Brooke Shields Says Her Younger Daughter 'Will Forever Be Angry' About Her Documentary: 'Bad Mom Move'

Mar. 15, 2025

Brooke Shields with daughters Rowan Francis Henchy and Grier Hammond Henchy.Photo:Dia Dipasupil/Getty

Dia Dipasupil/Getty

As a guest on Jennie Garth’s podcastIChoose Me, the actress, 58, discussed the making of her documentary and shared the different reactions she received from herdaughters Grier, 18, and Rowan, 20, who she shares with longtime husband Chris Henchy.

“And I was the conduit to a bigger conversation. And that, to me, is the biggest gift of all,” she proudly shares.

Garth then asks, “Did your daughters see the reason that you did it?”

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Brooke Shields with her daughters.Gregory Pace/Shutterstock

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“One of them did, the other one did not,” Shields admits, noting that her younger daughter Grier “will forever be angry with me.”

She says the 18-year-old felt “ambushed with the information,” admitting, “It was a bad mom move on my part.”

“I didn’t set her up, and she doesn’t like being surprised. She felt sort of cold-cocked,” the mom of two continues. “I assumed it would be fine. I thought, well, ‘She knows her mother. Her mother’s healthy and not damaged.’ I thought she would be able to look at us now and think, like, ‘Wow, you’ve come a long way’, and ‘Isn’t that great?'”

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Brooke Shields and her family.Brooke Shields/Instagram

Brooke Shields/Instagram

“And no, no, no, she said she will never be okay with it.,” Shield says of her protective daughter. “She will never be okay with anything happening to me.”

Rowan, on the other hand, was able to view her mom’s story in a different light.

“My older daughter really thought about it and said, ‘Well, it was tough. I don’t need to see that again, but women need to see this,’ " Shields recalls. “So I think that period of maturity helped my older daughter to understand it differently.”

She adds, “I’m not sure where my 18-year-old is gonna get any better. I don’t know if she’s going to.”

Shields previously opened up to PEOPLE about her daughters’ reactions to the documentary, admitting that while Rowan was aware of the assault,she “didn’t prepare” Grier for what she would see.

“I was learning about things the same time that the world was and I just took it more deeply and personally,” Grier told PEOPLE in August. “I couldn’t even get through it.”

source: people.com