Sally Field Talks About Her Life ‘In Pieces’
In a new memoir, the actress reveals a personal history, darkened by abuse and illuminated by grace, that she has never shared before.
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Sally Field – Survivor
Sep 12, 2018 | 6:45 AM
Sally Field is opening the book on her past. In her new memoir, In Pieces, Field says her late stepfather, the actor and stuntman Jock Mahoney, molested her. In an interview with The New York Times, she also explains that she finally told her mother about the abuse right around the time she landed a role in 2012’s Lincoln. Mahoney died in 1989.
“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,” Field writes of the assaults, which finally ended when she was 14. Field’s mother, actress Margaret Field, split with Mahoney in 1968.
OTHER ABUSE
Field says other men abused her as well. She says that after smoking hash with singer Jimmy Webb in 1968, they had sex without her consent.
