Sally Field: Burt Reynolds ‘invented’ story that I was love of his life

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his 2018 death, Reynolds wrote in his memoir “But Enough About Me” that he regretted not fighting hard enough in his relationship with Field, 75.“Forrest Gump” star Field divulged to Variety that Reynolds made up the story that she was ever in love with him.“He was not someone I could be around,” she said. “He was just not good for me in any way.”Their romance reportedly began in 1977 on the set of “Smokey and the Bandit,” and they had an on/off relationship until 1982.

The pair starred in four films together.“He had somehow invented in his rethinking of everything that I was more important to him than he had thought, but I wasn’t,” the Oscar-winner continued. “He just wanted to have the thing he didn’t have.

I just didn’t want to deal with that.”Following the “Gunsmoke” star’s passing, Field did not attend his funeral; however, she released a heartwarming statement about him.“There are times in your life that are so indelible, they never fade away.

They stay alive, even 40 years later,” the “Amazing Spider-Man” actress told Page Six in a statement at the time. “My years with Burt never leave my mind.