Her Personal Life
Steven Craig and Sally Field were married in 1968, and they had two boys, Peter and Eli. After their breakup in 1975, she married Alan Greisman in 1984. Their only child together was Samuel, and in 1994 they got divorced. She dated Burt Reynolds from 1976 until 1980; in her memoir, she discusses their difficult relationship. She talks of his tyrannical behavior and how he dissuaded Field from attending the Emmys, where she was honored for “Sybil.”Reynolds did in fact pass away before her book was published, and he called their failed romance “the biggest regret of my life” in his 2015 memoir “But Enough About Me.”
Fields claimed that they had not spoken for thirty years before his passing. “He was not someone I could be around,” she clarified. “I just wasn’t a good fit for him at all. Furthermore, he had managed to fabricate the false impression that I meant more to him than he had realized, even if I didn’t. The item he lacked was all he desired. I just didn’t want to be in charge of that.
Field noted that her relationship with Reynolds was “really complicated and hurtful to me, and not without loving and caring,” drawing a connection between the two relationships in retrospect. In her biography, she also talks of the mistreatment she experienced at the hands of her stepfather, who would frequently summon her to his room when she was fourteen.”I felt like a child, helpless, and not a child,” the woman said.robust. This was power. And it belonged to me. Still, I wished I was a child again.
Field later found out that her mother had known about the abuse all along, even though her husband had lied and said it had only happened once when he was drunk. After her mother passed away, Field penned the memoir, telling her that it was “all through my childhood.”That was the only way I could possibly find the pieces of my mother that had gone lost. I couldn’t forgive her until I realized that I needed to at least comprehend her. I wrote the novel to make amends with her.
Sally Field Right Now
Sally Field currently keeps her Oscars and Emmys in the TV room, where she plays computer games with her grandchildren. Given that her movies “80 for Brady” and “Spoiler Alert” are released next week and in 2023, respectively, Field doesn’t seem to be planning on retiring anytime soon.
“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 her friend and director of “Lincoln,” Steven Spielberg. “Through her consistently good taste and feisty persistence, she has earned this singular place in history, survived our ever-changing culture, and stood the test of time.”
