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Shields: My Mom Was Victimized By Reporters

Posted May 16th 2009 9:42AM by TMZ Staff

Brooke ShieldsBrooke Shields is claiming a reporter and a photog working for the National Enquirer checked out her 75-year-old mother from her nursing home in hopes of a good "tabloid story."

Teri Shields was signed out of her nursing home Thursday, and Brooke tells People that a reporter drove her mother around New Jersey in hopes of finding a good story. Brooke says her mother suffers from dementia, and claims her mom was allegedly tricked into leaving the facility after the journalist claimed they were friends.

Teri Shields was later found by police in a nearby restaurant, unharmed, having lunch with the reporter. The Enquirer claims the freelance reporter has known Teri for 10 years and was given permission by the facility to check her out.

No one was arrested and charges have not been filed.

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16. You know, it's very easy to judge others when you don't know their real stories. I personally would not put my own mother in a nursing home and have nothing - NOTHING - of the financial means of Brooke Shields; however, it must be remembered that Teri tortured Brooke's childhood with her alcoholism. You can say alcoholism is a "disease" and Teri couldn't help it or you can say Teri was out of control. Until you've lived it, don't purport to understand it. Having survived a double alcoholic childhood with massive complications myself I can totally understand that Brooke has placed her Mom in the very good care of a facility best equipped to deal with her demetia (DIFFICULT by itself by the way) . We don't know Teri's needs and Brooke's situation. Until you KNOW that with 100% certainty (which none of us ever will) you should be quiet. People do what they do (Teri and Brooke) and that's theirs.... nots ours to judge.

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3. I guess there was a story out of this story after all: millionaire actress keeps mom in nursing home.
Posted at 3:11PM on May 16th 2009 by NameMe

Posted at 8:53PM on May 16th 2009 by Liz

17. Very 24

Posted at 8:54PM on May 16th 2009 by Heather

18. My grandmother is 90 has Alzheimers and is in an assisted living. My grandmother is very convincing with her stories. and very adamant if you try to tell her that she is mistaken.

I lived with my grandmother for seven years before she went to assisted living last year. It is really hard and tiring to live with someone that needs 24 hour watch. She also began to pack things so she could go to heaven when her sister came. And would wake me up several times in the middle of the night thinking that it was morning. She would pack all her clothes, food, books, it was very tiring trying to put things away several times a day. I went to a seminar and they said that 15 to 30 minutes could be a whole day to someone with dementia or Alzheimers.
My mother is 70, it was the hardest decision for her and her brother to make to send my grandmother to an assisted living. It was really hard for my mom to accept that her mother needed more help than we could provide. Anyone with any experience with someone with dementia and Alzhemier disease can really understand what it was like for Brooke Sheilds. Her mother also has early onset dementia, which must be harder to deal with.
I totally feel for Brooke Sheilds. I hope she is able to sue and punish all the people involved. Her mother could tell them something completely false that never happened to any one let alone the Sheilds family and be completely sincere and emphatic that it is true.
I can't believe someone would do this to the Sheilds family. This is horrid.

Posted at 5:31PM on May 17th 2009 by OMG! I know how Brooke feels.

19. Waaaaah Brooke. Maybe if you ever took your mom out for lunch she wouldn't have to be rollin
with paps. She should be thanking this person for taking the time to spend time her mom.

Posted at 11:14PM on May 16th 2009 by superchunk

20. BROOKE IS BEATIFUL AND SMART - POOR WOMAN WHAT THEY DID TO HER MOTHER
I HOPE THIS PEOPLE WILL GO TO PRISON

Posted at 8:21AM on May 17th 2009 by nadine90212

21. This is a nursing home problem, not paparazzi. The paps are scum that having nothing to lose "by trying" - the home let it happen.
Most importantly, agreeing with #3 and #8, WHY is Brooke not taking care of her own mom?

Posted at 9:03AM on May 17th 2009 by really?

22. what is "was were"? come on TMZ, I'd think you'd proofread knowing that hundreds of thousands are reading this god awful website

Posted at 10:43AM on May 17th 2009 by meag

23. I used to work in a nursing home. You dont just get to take people out without permission. Someone must of got paid off. That is sick and that person needs to be fired. Put in jail or fined. Something.

Posted at 11:19PM on May 17th 2009 by mary

24. Wow, I would be busting...if not rolling...heads!

Posted at 3:55AM on May 18th 2009 by Me

25. Those reporters should be charged with kidnapping. My father had dementia before he passed away, and he was like a child, he would have gone with anyone. It's disgusting to think that anyone would take advantage of Brooke's mom like this.

Posted at 8:34AM on May 21st 2009 by Molly

26. Oh My Gosh! This is so wrong. I can deff. see it happing again. I Love Brooke and I cant believe the press is this desprite for a stupid story! serisouly ppl GET A LIFE

Posted at 5:21PM on May 18th 2009 by Taylor Price

27. If you saw the footage- she was in Sunrise Assisted Living facitlity in Old Tappan, NJ. Assisted living is not the same as a nursing home- you can leave with anyone you want- you just have to let the facility know when you will be back. Nobody was paid off- because they don't need to be. Anyone can go there and have lunch with her mom.

Posted at 9:15PM on May 18th 2009 by You've got it wrong

28. BROOK SHOULD BE SUED, WHAT KIND OF A DAUGHTER IS HE? A ROTTEN DAUGHTER FOR PUTTING HER MOTHER IN A NURSING HOME. AND DONT GIVE ME NO B.S. ABOUT HER MOTHERS CONDITION, MY FATHER (RIP) HAD THE SAME DISEASE & HE SURE WASN'T IN A NURSING HOME, THAT BROOK SHOULD NOT BLAME OTHERS, SHE SHOULD BLAME HERSELF FOR NOT LOVING HER MOTHER ENOUGH TO CARE FOR HER AT HOME. I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHO BROOK THINKS SHE IS? SHE'S A TERRIBLE PERSON AND A ROTTEN TO THE CORE DAUGHTER FOR PUTTING HER MOTHER IN A NURSING HOME.

Posted at 11:31AM on May 19th 2009 by MRS. SOTO

29. BROOK IS JUST LOOKING FOR MONEY, AND VICTIMIZED? WHAT A JOKE, HER MOM WAS VICTIMIZED THE DAY HER DAUGHTER (BRROK SHIELDS) PUT HER IN A NURSING HOME. BROOK IS A TERRIBLE PERSON, IF SHE TRUELY CARED ABOUT HER MOTHER, SHE WOULD HAVE HER MOTHER LIVE WITH HER, I GUESS BROOK DOESN'T WANT TO CLEAN UP AFTER HER MOTHER (MY FATHER HAD THE SAME DISEASE AND HE WAS WELL TAKEN CARE OF UNTIL THE DAY HE PASSED AWAY.) I HAVE NO LOVE FOR BROOK SHIELDS, SHE IS ROTTEN TO THE CORE FOR PUTTING HER MOTHER IN A NURSING HOME, I HOPE I NEVER SEE HER ON TV AGAIN. (I WOULD CHANGE THE CHANNEL QUICK)

Posted at 11:42AM on May 19th 2009 by MRS. SOTO

30.
Dear Mr. Axelrod (Comment #13)

Whatever Teri Shields was or whatever she did, it has no connection to the incredibly vile, lowlife magic trick pulled by National Enquirer's retarded minion. You don't take a feeble, sick woman out of a nursing home to "interview" her. And... whatever it is what Teri was or did... obviously Brooke turned out a lot better than most of the freaks in celeb city. So, what exactly is/was your point?

Posted at 6:23PM on Jun 2nd 2009 by Clearsky54

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