Sally Field says she was recreating relationship with sexually abusive stepfather with Burt Reynolds

‘This would hurt him’: Sally Field admits she is relieved that Burt Reynolds did not read her memoir before he died because she describes their relationship as her way of ‘exorcising’ her stepfather’s sex abuse

• In her upcoming memoir out later this month, Sally Field dedicates several pages to her legendary relationship with the late Burt Reynolds, who died Sept. 6
• She also writes that she was repeatedly sexually abused by her stepfather
• In her tome, she says of her relationship with Burt, in retrospect she believes she was trying to recreate her relationship with her stepfather via her’s with Burt 
• She also writes that Burt was on a stunning cocktail of drugs while filming Smokey and the Bandit including Percodan, Valium and barbiturates
• Burt and Sally dated for five years starting when they co-starred in Smokey
• Sally also says she is glad Burt will never read her book as he is now at rest 
• She says he would have been hurt by the revelations about him in ‘In Pieces’  

Sally Field’s writes about her enduring relationship with the late Burt Reynolds in her upcoming memoir. 

She says she is relieved he will not get to read what she is revealing, as he would find it hurtful.

During actress Sally Field’s decades in the entertainment business, when it comes to her personal life, it is her relationship with Burt Reynolds that left its biggest public imprint, and now she will reveal their darker parts of their connection in her memoir ‘In Pieces’ out later this month.

In her memoir, Sally says she was sexually abused as an adolescent, by her stepfather, actor, and now deceased, Jock Malone. 

She says in retrospect, on her intense five year romance with Burt, she was trying to recreate the relationship she had with her abuser. 

‘I was somehow exorcising something that needed to be exorcised,’ she told the Times. ‘I was trying to make it work this time.’

Burt Reynolds, who passed away on September 6, had a torrid romance with Sally Field for five-years starting when the co-starred in Smokey and the Bandit (pictured together,  undated)  

Sally (2018, left) says her stepfather, actor Jock Malone (left, 1955) had repeatedly sexually abused her as an adolescent and that she now believes she was trying to re-create her relationship with her stepfather through her relationship with Burt

Sally, 71, delves into her long, and storied history with the late Reynolds, who passed on September 6, dedicating several pages to their relationship in her memoir.

She describes her relationship with Reynolds as ‘confusing and complicated’ and, in a conversation with the New York Times after his death, she said she was ‘flooded with feelings and nostalgia’ about him.  

‘This would hurt him,’ she said of her upcoming tome that includes her painful life as an adolescent and the tumultuous years that followed her celebrity status.

She says in light of his passing, she finds solace in that he will not read her book.

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‘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.’

Sally and Burt were lovers and co-stars whose romance began during the filming of ‘Smokey and the Bandit’ and continued in ‘Hooper.’ 

The ‘Smokey and the Bandit’ co-stars dated for five years after they met on the set of the 1977 film. The former couple appeared in four films together before calling it quits around 1982.

Though the pair have oft been described as akin to Hollywood relationship legend, Sally told the Times their time together was ‘confusing and complicated, and not without loving and caring, but really complicated and hurtful to me.’

Burt and Sally enjoyed each other for five years, and their relationship has become Hollywood legend- however Sally writes that he was ‘controlling’ of her and that their relationship, while loving, was also hurtful for her (circa 1982)

Sally Field’s revealing memoir ‘In Pieces’ (pictured) is set to hit stands September 18

While in her memoir she describes the prolific actor as being in person just as swaggering and charismatic as his roles, she also says he controlling of her. 

With a whirlwind romance sparked out of a connection that was as immediate and intense, it also had dark, frightening undertones to their courtship. 

Sally claims Reynolds used a cocktail of drugs while filming Smokey and the Bandit writing that he used Percodan, Valium and barbiturates, and would even occasionally receive mysterious injections to his chest.

She urged him to get his heart check around that time. He ultimately acquiesced and was examined at the Miami Heart Institute, but was given the all clear.

He also brushed off her suggestions at seeking therapy for her apparent stress, waiving it off as ‘self-delusional poppycock.’ 

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