Sally Field opens up in her new memoir about how she was sexually abused by her step father and how she had a secret abortion at 17 in Mexico
Sally Field opened up ahead of the release of her memoir 'In Pieces,' in which she details how she was sexually abused as a child by her step father and had a secret abortion at 17.
'I didn't know I had a voice,' she said in her interview with the New York Times. Sally touches on how she disclosed to her mother about the abuse she endured at the hands of her step-father up until she was 14-years-old.
Sally, who is now 71, did not tell her mother about her step-father's abuses of her as a young girl until around the time she found out she got the part in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (2012) while her mother was dying of cancer.
Her mother divorced from her father, Richard in 1951 and re-married in 1952 to stuntman and actor Jock Mahoney, best known for his role in 'Tarzan Goes to India.'
Of her step-father, nicknamed Jocko, Sally writes in her memoir, 'It would have been so much easier if I'd only felt one thing, if Jocko had been nothing but cruel and frightening. But he wasn't. He could be magical, the Pied Piper with our family as his entranced followers.'
He would call Sally to his bedroom alone. 'I knew,' Sally writes in the excerpts revealed by the Times.
'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.'
Despite her mother battling disease, she responded to Sally's confession, which was difficult to hear, as Sally explained it was not a one time incident, but a series of offenses throughout her adolecesnts that ceased when she turned 14-years-old.
Her mother, dealing the the enormity of Sally's confession of a decades old secret, and despite her own grave prognosis, assured her daughter she would not be alone in her pain any longer.
When she hit her late teens she experienced a sexual awakening which she describes as 'breaking out of my own brain.'
She fell pregrnant and had a secret abortion in Tijuana at 17-years-old.
Sally soon landed her first big gig on TV as 'Giget' and then 'The Flying Nun,' and her rise to stardom catapulted her into a different sphere.
'I was no longer a member of the club anymore,' Ms. Field writes. 'The Human Club. I was a celebrity,' she writes.
She used acting as her therapy. She sought complex roles such as the TV mini-series Sybil (1976) in which she played a woman with multiple-personality disorder.
She also won an Oscar for her the eponymous role in 'Norma Rae' (1979) in which she played a labor activist at a cotton mill which allowed her to express pent-up aggression.
She also details a time as a young woman, taking drugs and in one instance waking up to singer-songwriter Jimmy Webb on top of her after they had smoke a joint filled with hash.
She says she woke up and found Webb 'on top of me, grinding away to another melody.' She made sure to add she did not believe he was being malicious, rather that he was 'stoned out of his mind.'
Webb was asked to respond to Sally's memoir.
In an email, Webb said, 'I am being asked to respond to a passage in a book that the publishers refuse to let me read, even at my lawyer's request, so all I can do is recount my memories of dating Sally in the swingin' 1960s. Sally and I were young, successful stars in Hollywood. We dated and did what 22-year-olds did in the late 60s — we hung out, we smoked pot, we had sex.'
He also added that he did not include his dalliances with her in his own memoir, as he did not want to tarnish her 'Gidget' image.
Sally also delves into her long, and storied history with the late, great Burt Reynolds, who passed on September 6.
She describes her relationship as 'confusing and complicated' and in a conversation with the Times after his death she said she was 'flooded with feelings and nostalgia' about him.
Sally said she was at least relieved to hear that Reynolds would not read her memoir, knowing that he would be hurt by what she reveals
'This would hurt him,' she said. 'I felt glad that he wasn't going to read it, he wasn't going to be asked about it, and he wasn't going to have to defend himself or lash out, which he probably would have. I did not want to hurt him any further.'
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Sally Field opens up in her new memoir about how she was sexually abused by her step father and how she had a secret abortion at 17 in Mexico
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Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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