Sally Field is reflecting on her tumultuous relationship with the late Burt Reynolds. The actress spoke about the way he reframed their involvement in his later years in an interview with Variety. “He was not someone I could be around.
He was just not good for me in any way,” she responded when asked about their difficult relationship. Three years before his death, the actor released his memoir But Enough About Me where he opened up about how he regretted not fighting for his relationship with Field. READ MORE: Sally Field Arrested At Fire Drill Fridays Climate Change Protest “He had somehow invented in his rethinking of everything that I was more important to him than he had thought, but I wasn’t,” she explained. “He just wanted to have the thing he didn’t have.
I just didn’t want to deal with that.” The two began dating in 1977 while they were filming “Smokey and the Bandit” and dated on and off until 1982.
They starred in four films together. While appearing on “The View” after his death, Field admitted they hadn’t seen each other in over 30 years.
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