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Brooke Shields will be taking legal action. (AP Images)

Actress Brooke Shields is steaming mad at the National Enquirer – and rightly so – as the tabloid checked her mother, who is suffering from dementia, out of assisted living facility in Old Tappan, New Jersey. Two reporters from the sleazy mag drove Shields' mother around trying to get a story out of her.

Brooke Shields released the following statement: "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. 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."

Police are investigating and Shields says she is taking "every lawful action against all who were involved or who authorized this despicable act."

During the recent NBC special Farrah's Story, Fawcett reserves a good portion of the documentary talking about what an intrusive tabloid the National Enquirer is.