Sally Field described her memoir,In Pieces, as“incredibly raw, intimate and personal”— and she meant it.
The two-time Oscar-winning actress, 71, spoke withtheNew York Timesrecently about the revelations of the book, including a shocking allegation about her stepfather, actor and stuntman Jock Mahoney. Field says that when she was 14 years old, he would frequently call her into his bedroom alone.
“I knew,” she wrote in her memoir, according to theNYT. “I felt both a child, helpless, and not a child. Powerful. This was power. And I owned it. But I wanted to be a child — and yet.”
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Field’s mother, Margaret, filed for divorce from her father, Richard, in 1951, and remarried Mahoney in 1952. They divorced in 1968 and he died in 1989, theNYTreported.
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Field told theNYTthat she didn’t feel Webb’s behavior was “malicious.” Webb described his relationship with Field to theNYTas full of “respect,” adding that they “dated and did what 22-year-olds did in the late 60s — we hung out, we smoked pot, we had sex.” Rafelson said Field’s story was “totally untrue” and that he “didn’t make anybody kiss me in order to get any part.”
Also addressed in the book is theNorma Raestar’s relationship with the late actorBurt Reynolds. She described it to the outlet as “confusing and complicated, and not without loving and caring, but really complicated and hurtful to me.” Now, Field sees connections between her and Reynold’s romance and the relationship with her stepfather.
“I was somehow exorcising something that needed to be exorcised,” she said. “I was trying to make it work this time.”Reynolds died on Thursday, Sept. 6,at 82 years old, according to manager Erik Kritzer.
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In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE in March 2018, Field shared even more details aboutIn Pieces, out Sept. 18 — including the book’s cover, that it would address her complicated relationship with her mother,growing up in the repressive 1950sand starting her acting career at 17.
“I knew I had a story to tell and I knew I had to tell it. It’s taken me a great deal of time to figure out exactly what it was,” Field said. The book took her seven years to write.
“I have this life that no one really knows… or at least I didn’t even know truly,” she added. “This is incredibly raw and intimate and personal. [The memoir includes] things I never thought I wanted to say out loud.”
source: people.com
