![]() ![]() But it was so hugely important in my own existence, my own movement as a person. I was only with him for about three years and then maybe two years on and off after that. He was a very important part of my life, but for a tiny little part of my life. I've always thought of him rather nostalgically. On dating the late actor Burt Reynolds - a relationship she describes as controlling and emotionally abusive They are pictured together in March 1978. "He was a very important part of my life, but for a tiny little part of my life," Fields says of Burt Reynolds. that if I said it was because I was facing a system that was unfair, or I was facing typecasting, or you know, if I put it on the "big bad Them," I had no power. I would just say to myself: If I'm not where I want to be it's because I'm not good enough. So it was a matter of trying to break down those barriers. In the sitcom days of the '60s, there was a clear delineation between film and television, and film did not want anything to do with those who came from television - especially women and especially situation comedy and especially The Flying Nun. On struggling to find work after being cast on ABC's The Flying Nun Many women of my generation - and even generations before and probably generations now - are going through so many things that are similar to that and yet seen as just the virginal, sunny, happy-go-lucky, uncomplicated girl next door. I think I represented the "girl next door," the "all-American girl" much more than was visible. On taking on the role of happy, bubbly Gidget, the teen surfer girl in the 1960s sitcom, just weeks after her abortion "I represented the 'girl next door,' the 'all-American girl,' " she says. I know firsthand what that's like.įield sits on a surfboard in a promotional portrait for the 1965 television series Gidget. That the cluster of cells - if you catch it early - is more important than she is. ![]() lose their lives, or their ability to have other children, or who are so deeply shamed because they live in a society or with a government that chooses to look at unwanted pregnancies in a certain light - that, first of all, is the woman's fault and that the woman has no choice as to how this impacts her life. And I think of all the women all over the world who. I know how horrible it was for that little 17-year-old girl: How terrified I was and how I might have died. It's deeply ingrained and engraved in my psyche. On going to Tijuana to have an abortion at a time when it was not legal in the U.S. And I was forced to go back and look at episodes that I knew I had written about and was horrified that I had purposely disremembered them. I had never gone back to reread them - any of them. Even in my own journals that I had written all my life - I guess from my mid-20s on. I was afraid that I would find out things that I didn't want to know. She would win Oscars for her turns in the films Norma Rae and Places in the Heart. But she would eventually score serious, challenging roles like Sybil, a woman struggling with mental illness, in the TV miniseries of the same name. She remembers signing autographs while waiting in line for unemployment benefits after The Flying Nun was canceled. Her wholesome early roles on sitcoms made it nearly impossible to transition to serious projects, Field tells NPR. "Like flipping a switch, I began to bubble," she writes about her early roles on Gidget and The Flying Nun. The abuse was both emotional and sexual, and Field says those experiences forced her to divide herself into pieces to survive to wall off the pain and push forward. In the book, Field describes the abuse she suffered at the hands of her stepfather, actor Jock Mahoney. But her TV persona was at odds with her home life. But her new book, In Pieces, is instead an intensely personal, vulnerable accounting of her life and career.įield, now 71, got her start when she was a teenager on the 1960s TV sitcom Gidget, in which she played the title character - a squeaky clean surfer girl living with her loving, widowed father. After experiencing abuse as a child, Sally Field says she internalized that "to feel loved you have to be invisible and terrified." Her new memoir is called In Pieces.Įmmy- and Oscar-winning actress Sally Field could have written a famous-people-I've-known memoir. ![]()
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