- Brooke had a boyfriend when Michael Jackson claimed that the two were dating. When asked who he was dating at the time during his 1993 interview with Oprah Winfrey, Jackson revealed that he was seeing Brooke. However, the actor says she was shocked by the revelation because she was already in a relationship. "I called him, and I said, 'I'm actually currently with a boyfriend in New York City. What are you doing?'" Brooke recalls.
- Brooke was allegedly raped shortly after she graduated from college during what she thought was meant to be a work meeting. After graduating from Princeton in 1987, Brooke says she met up with a man she knew previously to discuss career opportunities as she struggled to find new work following her early success. After their dinner meeting, Brooke recalls going to the unnamed man's hotel room after he offered to have her wait there and call a cab. She says he disappeared for a while, during which time she busied herself with a pair of binoculars in the room and watched some volleyball players play outside the window. "The door opens, the person comes out naked, and I've got the binoculars, and I'm like, 'Sh*t,'" she says, panicked. "I put the binoculars down, and he's right on me. Just like, was wrestling." Brooke says she didn't try to put up a fight out of fear she'd "get choked out or something." "I just absolutely froze. I thought one 'No' should've been enough, and I just thought, 'Stay alive and get out,' and I just shut it out," she continued. "God knows I knew how to be disassociated from my body. I'd practiced that." After the incident, Brooke says she fled from the hotel and "cried all the way to my friend's apartment," but still had trouble processing what happened to her. She then confided in her security specialist, Gavin de Becker, who told her, "'That's rape.'" "I said, 'I'm not willing to believe that,'" Brooke concludes.
- Brooke wrote her attacker a letter after the alleged assault. "I said, 'You know, that was a huge trust that was just blown up and disintegrated,'" the actor wrote to her assailant, but says her words were dismissed. Looking back on the assault, Brooke notes, "I just threw my hands up and thought, 'You know what, I refuse to be a victim because this is something that happens no matter who you are and no matter what you think you're prepared for or not.' I wanted to erase the whole thing from my mind and body and just keep on the path I was on. The system had never once come to help me. So I just had to get stronger on my own."
- Brooke says firing her mother as her manager was "the most violent thing" she had ever done. In 1995, Brooke fired Teri after years of dealing with her alcoholism because she wanted to elevate her acting career. She recalls completely clearing out their joint office building, taking all of her archives and some of Teri's belongings, after which her mother disappeared for a few days. "Eventually she surfaced, and she just couldn't believe [it]," Brooke says, adding that she told Teri, "'I'm just so sorry. I didn't know any other way." The actor says Teri never forgave her for firing her and even discussed the decision in public interviews.
- Brooke regrets her failed marriage with her ex-husband Agassi. Brooke and Agassi divorced in 1999 after less than two years of marriage. Though the two initially formed a bond over their shared experience with overbearing parents and child stardom, Brooke reveals that their relationship should have never developed into anything romantic. "We should've just been friends. I don't think we should've ever been husband and wife," she shares. "We weren't meant to be each other's lifelong partners."
"If you or a loved one has experienced sexual assault and would like to speak with someone who is trained to assist sexual assault survivors, call the National Sexual Assault Hotline 24/7 at 1-800-656-4673."
