Brooke Shields tells People.com that two tabloid reporters checked her mother out of a nursing home in Old Tappan, New Jersey on Thursday. Police tell the Web site that 75-year-old Teri Shields, who is afflicted with dementia, was later discovered talking with a reporter in a restaurant located next to the assisted living center. "She wasn't harmed in any way shape or form. She was fine,” Old Tappan Police Department Capt. Thomas Shine tells People.com. “The officers discussed the circumstances with her. And she literally walked with one of my officers next door to the assisted living center." Brooke says Old Tappan police told her that her mother had been checked out of the nursing home by two reporters claiming to be Teri’s friends. Shine tells the Web site, "It was more along the lines that [Teri] had been allowed to leave, based upon [the nursing home’s] protocol or policy." Booke...
- 5/16/2009
- by TheInsider
- TheInsider.com
Brooke Shields's mother, who suffers from dementia, was checked out of a New Jersey nursing home Thursday by a journalist seeking a "tabloid story," the outraged actress tells People. Teri Shields, 75, was later found unharmed at a restaurant next door to an assisted living center in Old Tappan, N.J., talking to a freelance reporter, according to police, who say no arrests have been made but that the case remains under investigation. "I intend to take every lawful action against all who were involved or who authorized this despicable act," Brooke Shields says in a statement to People. A...
- 5/15/2009
- by Mike Fleeman and Julie Jordan
- PEOPLE.com
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