OlderBrooke Shields to National Enquirer: Shame On You!
Brooke Shields’s 75-year-old mother, Teri Shields, suffers from dementia and was reportedly checked out of a New Jersey nursing home Thursday by a journalist from the National Enquirer seeking a “tabloid story.”
Brooke, 43, said via a statement to People: “I intend to take every lawful action against all who were involved or who authorized this despicable act. 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.”
The statement continued, “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. 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.”
Teri was later found unharmed at a restaurant next door to an assisted living center. No arrests have been made yet but that the case remains under investigation.
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that is awful! absolutely disgusting
Good on Brooke! She basically just said what everyone thinks about that joke of a tabloid ‘magazine’.
This story makes me sad. Poor Teri!
Sue their butts!
I hope Brooke Shields sues the pants off National Enquirer. The tabloid’s behavior goes beyond human decency.
WOW seriously, i am never one to feel sorry for celebs, but this one takes the cake!!Who the hell does something like this!!!Andy why Shields?She is not exactly selling news or is a scandalous celeb in the first place.Its all so random, first the headbutt incident and now this to happen to her.
I say sue their f***** a**es off!!
As a daughter of someone who suffers from this, all i can say is that its digusting and sad that someone can go to this length for a story!
what the heck as our society come to?
boy, her publicists have sure been trying to get her in the news lately!
That’s right, Brooke. Go get’em girl. It’s reprehensible what they did.
Farrah Fawsett said, the Natl Enquirer paid a UCLA Medical Center employee to give them information on Farrah’s medical records.
OMG ! if anyone did that too my mum i would actually fight them
thats such a disgusting fing to do, don’t their have mother’s imagine how they would feel if someone did the exact same thing to them
then again, no one cares about their private life, so thats pretty unlikely , NO OFFENCE
and its not even that they were looking for a story, its the fact that they took ADVANTAGE of such a mentally distressing condition
completely heartless
Brooke should definitely sue
poor Terri !
#7..I was wondering when the first person would come on her with a stupid comment. You win.
wow, that’s a new low for them
i really hope they get their asses sued with a hefty fine
i mean seriously….
kidnapping some1s mom with a disease like that, u have 2 b one the the biggest douches ever even 2 think about that
When think you’ve heard it all people go from the gutter to the sewer. the National Enquirer is a bunch low life sewer rats with the swine flu.
Teri Shields is the mother of a well known actress. What if those who checked her out were kidnappers for ransom.
Therefore, Brooke should go after the nursing home.
this is bottom of the barrel disgusting. If anyone watched Farrah Fawcett’s documentary last night, you’d see that the national enquire is known for low blows ….
Sick
some one should post their pics on the net and let them get a taste of fame after someone beats the sh!t out of them.
LIFE #10 WHY IS THAT STUPID… NO YOU WIN …!!! HANDS DOWN….
HER PUBLICIST IS BUSY…
.SO IS RIHANNA AND THE WHOLE WHO STOLE THE PHOTO CASE HOW IS THAT GOING DID THEY FIND THE PERSON WHO DID IT.. NO ..!! PLEASE AS IF THE RETIREMENT HOME WOULD DO THAT
I DOUBT AND THEY NEW IT WAS THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER…
SO WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU PEOPLE…
Uh…is this considered kidnapping?
And why hasn’t the state police and the FBI been notified?
Just dropping her off at a restaurant isn’t good enuf.
And had this been a child EVERYONE would have gone nuts.
And what if she’d wandered out into the street and been struck by a car?
Jackasses…the National Enquirer ‘reporters’. Maybe this will kill them completely, and forever.
UGH how terrible…may they *********** for this
Paps have gotten so disgusting. They need to be held accountable for the **** the pull and the lies they tell. More stars need to sue them.
BROOKE JUST TAKE MOM HOME @
I hope English is your second language because if it isn’t–you need to go back to school and learn how to write and speak the English language. What an illiterate post.
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WTF kind of nursing home is that?! No reputable nursing home will let anyone take a patient out of the facility except a family member, a legal guardian, a staff member or medical personnel (ambulance etc).
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Coming from the NE, however, nothing surprises me any more. They have absolutely no sense of common decencey whatsoever.
Enquirer says that the reporter was a 10 year long friend of Brooke’s mom and went to visit her in the facility. The mother asked the reporter/friend to take her out for a drive to run errands and he did. then they went out to lunch. all of this was cleared with the nursing home.
looks like brooke’s publicists are working overtime to keep her in the news. we”ll see if she really sues. or if this is just another attempt to keep her relevant. wonder if she’s pitching a reality show somewhere.
I hope she sues the H*&^ out of the National Enquirer! This is unbelievable but do we expect anything less from them?
This is disgusting and low, I hope she sues and ruin that magazine and ‘reporter’ (if you can call it that…)
And I’m sure she’s thanking her publicist that someone took her mother who suffers dementia away from her place of safety. You clearly don’t know anyone who has suffered dementia.
An absolute new low for the paparazzi. Shame on you. I hope Brooke sues the pants off them.
I am speechless. Whoever took part in this needs to be put behind bars for a VERY long time. That is about the lowest behavior I have ever heard of.
this is a new low for tabloid rags. A despicable breach of decency.
I hope that all who hear of this deplorable act vow never to buy NATIONAL ENQUIRER…. I never will. God bless Brooke and all who are tending to their frail and aging parents.
eh @ 05/16/2009 at 8:07 pm
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You don’t “clear it with the nursing home” like that. NE would first have had to clear it with Brooke Shields or another legal representative of her mother. Something stinks on ice.
When celebs are out in thepublic, with their kids or not, photos can be taken but not in their faces or under their skirts. when a celeb is in scandal, there are no limits in reporting their personal business(Kate Goselin), BUT THIS IS THE LOWEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sheilds should sue the NursingHome, TNat.Enq., and the reporters and photographers PERSONALLY who did this. You know she has her mom in a top notch,expensive place, sooooooo, someone on staff at the nursing home took some pay and let these people take her mom. Iagree with #13
Iagree with #17 too. This is making me so sick to my stomach and I too, had a loved one with Alzheimers in a nursing home.
You do not have someone there because you want them there or they want to be there. they are there because they must have 24 hour care in a secure environement.
The nursing home and the tabloid magazine as well as the individuals that work for the magazine all need to be held accountable. This is ridiculous!
This is disgusting and makes me want to vomit. How dare they? This is just as bad as taking a little toddler from their playground. Both the elderly with dementia and an innocent child are not capable of fending for themselves. I would be furious. Who knows what they did to her? Terrible. I will never read the Enquirer - I never do anyway.
TAKE THEM DOWN!
Yeah, this is a very low move for the National Enquirer, but those who support such despicable behavior by purchasing the crap they consistently dispense are just as responsible. I have never in my life purchased a National Enquirer rag and never will.
This really sickens me. Both of my Grandmothers have/had dementia and it is sick that some one would take advantage of soemone like that!! It s hard enough to deal with the disease, and then have some one take advantage of it!
I hope the disgusting reporters, if you could even call them that, get sued for everything they have
This should be a wake-up call to anyone who buys, reads, or believes any of the trash tabloids like National Enquirer, Star, In Touch, or Life & Style. They are garbage and the people who work for them have no morals. They pay people to lie and now they have resorted to abducting a celebrity’s relative to create a story. Disgusting!!!! Of all the businesses that should shut down due to the recession the tabloids should be first to go.
Oh my god, that is disgusting and outrageous. I would be beyond angry. I would be beyond pissed. If something like that happened to me or anyone I know (or anyone I don’t know) I would feel violated to the bones.
These people need to be sued to fullest extent of the law. I cannot believe someone would do that to a sick woman.
Disgusting and outrageous and repulsive.
Oh my god, that is disgusting and outrageous. I would be beyond angry. I would be beyond pissed. If something like that happened to me or anyone I know (or anyone I don’t know) I would feel violated to the bones.
These people need to be sued to fullest extent of the law. I cannot believe someone would do that to a sick woman.
Disgusting and outrageous and repulsive.
Anyone who still buys and read The Inquirer are considered low life scumbags. They should be ashame of themselves even for just reading that trash in a supermarket. The readers of this trash are accesories for their crimes
This is a case for the FBI and while they are at it, the FBI should investigate all tabloids. Shut them down
That is beyond disgusting and I agree 100% with Brooke Sheilds.
She has a case.
The best way to show your disdain for this type of behavior? DO NOT BUY THE MAGAZINE!
The nursing home would not have to have necessarily contacted Brooke Shields. For a vulnerable adult to be deemed to need a guardian, a legal process must be followed that includes examination by an attorney, and medical personnel. It also must go through the court system. This could have been in process, where Terri would still be her own guardian and be able to act as her agent in terms of telling the staff she wanted to go to lunch or to a doctor’s appointment etc. not understanding where she was being taken.
Conservatorship gives a third party the rights and responsibilities to make financial decisions on behalf of the vulnerable adult. In simple terms: Guardianship covers the physical person, conservatorship covers the assets of the person.
No one knows when she was diagnosed, what legal safeguards were being put into place etc. If These reporters gained Terri’s trust or told her she was going home and that Brooke wanted them to take her there, it is quite possible she agreed to go with them.
There is also the possibility that the NE forged documents.
wow that’s horrible. they should be punished severely for that
BROOKE SHOULD BRING KIDNAPPING CHARGES AGAINST THESE CRIMANALS,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,SUE THE NURSING HOME ……..THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY THE NATIONAL INQUIRER,,,,,,,,,,,,THE PUBLISHER AND CALL ON CONGRESS OF THE USA TO PASS A LAW AGAINST THESE CRIMANAL TABLOIDS…………..THIS MUST END…………..PEACE
I hope she goes after the NURSING HOME!!! My dad had Alzheimers and the place he lived at would have never let that happen.
OMG, what **** head could do that…That tabloid should be buried up..hope Brook will get millions from them…
to the people who are saying things about the nursing home, there are different levels of care in nursing homes. If she is in assisted living, she’s free to come and go as she pleases, within reason. Maybe Brooke’s mom’s dementia isn’t so advanced that she would need to be in a locked/secure facility.
Wow…a very disturbing story and prison time for kidnapping, et al., by those involved and the rag itself! Go Brook Shields and never give up until everyone is behind bars. In this day and age, you would think the place where she resides would have super security and, especially, for a woman who was a manager in the entertainment industry and where her grown daughter is still working.
Karma is a *****! I see everyone here is digusted and shocked at the paps behavior, but i say karma is a *****! This old woman used to pimp out Brooke shields to po*n companies when she was a child and had no one to defend her. What goes around comes around, that’s all i have to say. I feel sorry for Brooke cause its her mother and she loves her, but she wasn’t exactly mother of the year material, far from it actually.
@kaos:
Teri used to pimp brooke shieds to soft po*n companies. She was hardly an angel. I am sorry she’s demented now but she used to be a bad mom.
This is kidnapping and the two monsters who did this need to go prison, and the magazine needs to be sued. I can’t believe they left Teri in a restaurant, on top of stealing her from her home. Whatever the woman did in her past is irrelevant.
@The truth:
This is a disgusting shame and @kaos shame on you too.
this is the most disgusting thing i have ever heard. i hope those paps get the chair
I like how kathy griffin talks about getting drunk with shelds mom in her tv special, way to throw her under a bus, but I guess she has alcohol and mental problems, good luck to her.
#23 are you working for the NE?????????? A “Friend” of her mothers that Brooke does’nt know? Come On!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For those saying that Teri knew the reporters who were her friends, all I can say is - let the facts emerge. Teri was the mother and manager of Brooke Shields for many years and consequently, probably did know reporters.
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But that doesn’t mean those reporters were her friends. Imagine if this “Friendly Reporter” shows up after not seeing Teri for years, then takes her out to run some errands. And this friendly reporter just so happens to work for National Enquirer, one of the worst tablies out there. Right, wouldn’t you be suspicious?
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Also about Teri pimping Brooke out and now its her karma. Yes, you are right in a way. Cause and effect. Teri was Brooke’s manager and managed Brooke’s career. So, yes, she got to know these “reporters” because had she just been some single mother scraping a living together for herself and Brooke, no doubt, she wouldn’t have encountered any reporters.
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But also seems to be Teri’s karma that Brooke seems to have escaped most of the problems of a child star. There’s no suggestion that Brooke was an addict to alcohol or drugs. She’s a mother of 2 beautiful little girls and been married only twice, this last one for several years now. She’s been involved in a few successful TV series and seems to have her feet firmly planted on the ground. So, Teri, in the process of her “pimping” her daughter, appears to have nevertheless done a good job raising Brooke. I would be interested to know which amongst you who have criticised her will do as good a job as a mother of your children.
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Also, for those who say that Brooke should take her mum home. How do you know it wasn’t Teri who said she would rather live in a nursing home? I’m sure if I grow old and have an awareness that I’m getting dementia, I would prefer to be in a good quality nursing home then being a burden to my daughter, who has enough on her plate raising her own children and being a wife. It is very very stressful taking care of someone with dementia and no one should be criticised if he/she feels that he can’t do it in his own home.
Pink Roses #13
I agree — the nursing home should have a list of who is able to check her out. The Enquirer AND the home should be sued. Sounds like it wasn’t a high-security place, which would make sense. Most nursing homes aren’t run like prisons.
As for those thinking that Brooke Shields is seeking publicity in this way, now we know who the low-lifes are who have kept the Enquirer in business all these years.
This is going TOO far! It is time that rag mags and the papparazzi are stopped, the stalking they do is criminal. Celebrities deserve privacy too, they are human beings just like us. I have never purchased one of those rags nor do I put celebrities up on a pedestal for worship. I simply respect and appreciate them for their craft and the ability to escape for a few hrs while I watch them on screen. I would go crazy if I had a camera in my face 24/7. I hope they are sued for crossing the line. It is ridiculous the way they get away with criminal behaviour. Enough already.
Lylian #59
Hello, once again, always great to see your kind and sensible posts!
I totally agree — the person who said Brooke’s mom was taking her to soft p*rn companies is a creepy liar. Brooke was in commercials for Ivory Soap as a child, and later Calvin Klein as a teen, as well as in legitimate movies.
There are few people in Hollywood who have worked constantly from the time they were a baby, and have never had a problem. Brooke is universally acknowledged as a level-headed, good-hearted, highly intelligent, sweet person. The only time when she was not working for a significant length of time was when she attended an Ivy League college, and while pregnant. She has been acclaimed in movies, TV, and on Broadway.
If her success as a person and a professional is the result of a “bad mom”, who was also the neighborhood “mom” to lots of young people that Brooke knew, then we should all be so lucky to have Teri Shields as a bad parent.
By the way, did anyone bother to read the part where she said she put her mom in the home for “her safety”? Having a parent who is aging is not easy, particularly with a career and two children. An aging parent can be as much a full-time job as having a baby, and require full-time attention.
Brooke made a difficult decision, but the right one for her mother and for her to make sure that her mother was cared for properly.
Brooke you have the right to be angry, I took care of m father in law till he past a tough situation to go through..
It’s people like the soulless demons responsible for “The National Enquirer” that make this world an even shiittier place to live in than it already is.
@BROOKE JUST TAKE MOM HOME: “LIFE #10 WHY IS THAT STUPID… NO YOU WIN …!!! HANDS DOWN….
HER PUBLICIST IS BUSY…” #16 - Hands down, you are a moron. Brooke Shields is one of the last people most people would assume that PR is behind a story. She is notoriously private - hence the reason the NE would likely go to these disgusting extremes to try to find a story. The POLICE were involved for a reason, a.k.a., it was a true crime. Celebrity blogs have made you cynical. Might be time to turn off your computer for a while and give your little brain a rest.
Someone just told me about this incident and I was appalled.
My Mother, who passed away last August, had dementia, like Brooke’s Mom does. She lived with me and I was her care giver. If anyone took her out of the house without my consent, like this reporter did Brooke Shields Mom, I would have wanted them prosecuted for kidnapping, reckless endangerment and literally have the book thrown at them.
What is wrong with these reporters who are so greedy for a story that they would put a sickly old woman in danger? That’s exactly what this reporter did. The paparazzi has really over stepped their boundries when they pull stunts like this and think it’s OK to do so. They need to be put in their place for good!
I don’t blame Brooke for being furious. She has every right to be.
In my previous comment I forgot to add that Brooke should move her Mother to another facility. In addition to the Enquirer, the nursing home that her Mom is in should be held legally accountable and responsible for allowing an unauthorized person enter the facility and take Brooke’s Mom from the premises. It is also questionable that they allowed a strange person to enter the facility and visit Brooke’s Mom. Their lack of lack of judgement should be questioned. It makes you wonder what other forms of neglect are going on there. What a disgrace!
That is horrible!
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