Sally Field reveals more in his new relationship with the late Burt Reynolds in his new memoir, In pieces. In the book, published Tuesday, Field describes the actor, which she dated several years from 1977, after the two met on the set. Smokey and the bandit, as control and remote.
"By the time we met, the weight of his celebrity had become a way for Burt to control everyone around him, and from the moment I walked in the door, he was a way to control me. We were a perfect match of defects, "she wrote. "Injured, I fell into a rut that had long formed on my way, a pre-programmed behavior, as if in the past I had promised a binding commitment to this man."
"I've always been flattered when he said that," Field said Diane Sawyer sure Hello America Monday. "But it was a complicated man."
Field had already said The New York Times that she was "happy" that Reynolds was not there to read his book. Reynolds died on September 6th at the age of 82.
"It would hurt her," she said at the interview last week. "I felt good that he was not going to read it, he would not be questioned about it, and he was not going to have to defend himself or run wild, what he would have probably".
A previous excerpt from Field's book revealed that she had been molested by her father-in-law as a child, a relationship she now says has influenced her relationship with Reynolds years later.
She said The New York Times that his time with Reynolds was "confusing and complicated, and not without love and benevolence, but really complicated and hurtful for me".
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