Sally Field is opening up about the abuse she’s suffered in her new book, “In Pieces.” In it, the Oscar-winner details how her stepfather abused her until she was 14.
Field’s mom married stuntman Jock “Jocko” Mahoney in 1952. She says he would summon her into his room alone. “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,” she wrote. With the abuse notwithstanding, Jocko was “magical, the Pied Piper with our family as his entranced followers.” She didn’t tell her mother about the abuse until she was cast in “Lincoln,” which hit theaters in 2012.
Meanwhile, Sally’s own “sexual awakening” happened in high school. That tryst led her to getting a secret abortion in Tijuana when she was 17-years-old.
- The abuse continued throughout Field’s life. She recalls an incident with Jimmy Webb in 1968. After smoking a joint, she woke up with him on top, “grinding away to another melody.” She didn’t think he had “malicious intent,” and blamed the incident on the drugs. For the record, he said, “We dated and did what 22-year-olds did in the late ‘60s – we hung out, we smoked pot, we had sex.” He said that he intentionally left her out of his book because his respect for her wouldn’t allow him to tarnish her Gidget image with their stories of drugs and sex.
- Sally also talked about her #MeToo moments in auditions. Case in point – director Bob Rafelson told her that he couldn’t hire anyone with subpar kissing skills. Yuck.
- ONE MORE THING! And yes, Sally elaborated on her time with Burt Reynolds. He did drugs like Percodan, Valium, and barbiturates and was controlling. She called their relationship “confusing and complicated, and not without loving and caring, but really complicated and hurtful to me.” She’s glad that Burt, who died last week, didn’t read the book because it would hurt him.
Source: New York Times
