Brooke Shields is recalling the time Fran Drescher supported her while undergoing fertility treatments.
While on the red carpet at the 2025 SAG Awards on Sunday, February 23, Shields, 59, pulled Drescher, 67, into her interview. “She helped me with my fertility treatments when I was trying to get pregnant!” Shields said.
Shields, who welcomed daughters Rowan and Grier in 2003 and 2006 with husband Chris Henchy, previously recalled Drescher lending a helping hand while at a party. (Shields and Henchy, 60, tied the knot in 2001.)
“When I was going through IVF I had to take shots every day and at certain times at night. My husband would give them to me but I was out and I was supposed to meet him at this party. He was late and the time arrived where I needed the shot,” Shields said in 2005, per People.
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Drescher continued, “She was really, like, panicking and she was thinking, ‘Maybe I should just get in the car and go to the location where he’s shooting and try and find him because I can’t give myself the injection.’ She looked at me and she said, ‘Do you know how to give an injection?’ I said, ‘Not really,’ and then I asked my boyfriend, whose father was a pharmacist and he said he never did it either. I said, ‘You know, just tell me what to do. I’ll do it. I mean, if any junkie can do it I certainly should be able to.’ I’m the father of her child!”
Now, as Shields raises her two daughters, she’s been candid about parenting — and how she has guided them from habits she doesn’t love in herself.
“I have one that’s very much a people pleaser, and I have a younger one who’s about right and wrong, and it doesn’t matter what people think. She’s very strong in her opinions,” Shields said in a January Us Weekly cover story. “Even her reactions — I will say, ‘Aren’t you embarrassed?’ And she’s like, ‘No. No, I am not.’ And she’s 18, maybe she’ll feel differently. My older one really does straddle that, and I don’t know if it’s age, birth [order], whatever — we are the most similar, in our approach to life and our actions.”
She continued, “I’m so proud that I have cleared space for them to be able to contradict me, express their feelings and not be afraid they’re gonna be judged. And being OK if I don’t agree with them. They just have different ways of expressing it to me.”
