I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup and I, along with a roomful of other people, ended up being kidnapped and held hostage at gunpoint in a windowless room with no ventilation for 36 hours.

In 1985 Nielsen began her acting career in Red Sonja alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger. In 2009 Nielsen appeared as a panel speaker to a new group of addicts at the Pasadena Recovery Center anticipating the two-year mark of her sobriety that coming July. Filmography


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1988 Every Body Tells a Story
1992 I'm the One.

Her exploits were well-covered in the entertainment media in the 1980s and the world press started referring to her as an "Amazon" because of her tall stature (verified by the Guinness Book of World Records at 6 ft or 1. Drew which depicted her and several other celebrities dealing with recovery from drug and alcohol addiction. She is also known for her marriage to Sylvester Stallone with whom Brigitte Nielsen starred in the 1986 film Cobra.