The Life and Career of Oscar Winning Actress, Sally Field

In hindsight, Field made connections between her relationship with Reynolds — which she described as “confusing and complicated, and not without loving and caring, but really complicated and hurtful to me” — and her relationship with her stepfather. In her memoir, she also talks about her stepfather’s abuse, when he would frequently call her to his room when she was 14. “I felt both a child, helpless, and not a child,” she wrote. “Powerful. This was power. And I owned it. But I wanted to be a child — and yet.” [4]

Field later found out that her mother had known about the abuse all along, but her husband had lied and said it only happened once when he was drunk. Field had told her it was “all through my childhood” and wrote the memoir after her mother died. “It was the only way I was going to find the pieces of my mother that I couldn’t put together. And until I could see that, I couldn’t forgive her, and I needed to forgive her or at least understand her. So I wrote the book to forgive her.” [5]
Sally Field Today
These days, Sally Field keeps her Oscars and Emmys in a TV room where she plays video games with her grandkids. So far, Field shows no signs of retiring with her film “Spoiler Alert” releasing next week, as well as “80 for Brady” coming in 2023.

“As an actor, she dared this town to typecast her, and then simply broke through every dogmatic barrier to find her own way — not to stardom, which I imagine she’d decry, but to great roles in great films and television,” said Steven Spielberg, her friend and “Lincoln” director. “Through her consistently good taste and feisty persistence, she has survived our ever-changing culture, stood the test of time and earned this singular place in history.”