{"id":1135,"date":"2023-03-02T00:12:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T00:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/?p=1135"},"modified":"2023-03-02T00:12:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T00:12:48","slug":"actress-sally-field-was-the-love-of-burt-reynolds-life-but-she-refused-to-speak-to-him-in-his-final-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailynewsintime.net\/index.php\/2023\/03\/02\/actress-sally-field-was-the-love-of-burt-reynolds-life-but-she-refused-to-speak-to-him-in-his-final-30-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Actress Sally Field was the love of Burt Reynolds\u2019 life, but she refused to speak to him in his final 30 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Burt Reynolds\u2019 passing in 2018 was one felt by millions of people around the world. The legendary actor died after a battle with a number of health issues for many years.<\/p>\n

The actor left an immense legacy behind, including plenty of fond memories retained by former co-stars and friends. Perhaps the most heartwarming came from an on-and-off-again girlfriend, Sally Field.<\/p>\n

Sally just turned 76 and she may have maintained a silence concerning the pair\u2019s time together over the past few decades, but, following Burt\u2019s passing, she\u2019s opened up \u2026<\/p>\n

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Though Reynolds had many flings in his life, he admitted that there was one true love. In a remarkably candid interview with Vanity Fair, he revealed how Hollywood star Sally Fields was the woman he would remember for the rest of his days.<\/p>\n

The two of them met on Smokey and the Bandit set in 1977.<\/p>\n

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Reynolds fell head over heels in love with Field, and he would later reveal that he was the one who took the fight to get Field onboard for Smokey and the Bandit. The filmmakers, however, weren\u2019t convinced and didn\u2019t think that the actress was \u201csexy enough\u201d. But Burt stood up for the actress, and Fields eventually landed the role.<\/p>\n

\u201cgave me a feeling that I was sexy, and I wanted to be everything he ever wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n

The high-profile couple seemed like a match made in heaven and continued to co-star movies, including 1978\u2019s\u201d Hooper and The End.\u201d For a while, Fields was very happy with Burt. She said that she wanted to be everything he \u201dever wanted\u201d and that he gave her \u201da feeling that I was sexy\u201d.<\/p>\n

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The press followed each step the couple took as Burt and Sally dated on and off for almost five years. But in 1980, they decided to go separate ways. Sadly, the fairytale relationship didn\u2019t work out, and it was much more complicated than many believed it to be.<\/p>\n

In her memoirs, Sally revealed how much the charismatic star award-winning actor controlled his girlfriend.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy the time we met, the weight of his stardom had become a way for Burt to control everyone around him, and from the moment I walked through the door, it was a way to control me. We were a perfect match of flaws,\u201d Sally Fields wrote in her memoir, In Pieces, and added:<\/p>\n

\u201dBlindly I fell into a rut that had long ago formed in my road, a pre-programmed behavior as if in some past I had pledged a soul-binding commitment to this man.\u201d<\/p>\n

What could have been the beginning of something beautiful and a love story for the history books developed into a nightmare for Sally.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat happened is that I stopped existing. I dressed for him, looked for him, walked for him. He asked me to marry him many times, [but] I knew his heart wasn\u2019t in it,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019d have ended up just feeling terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the split, both actors moved on and started dating other people. But Burt never forgot Sally Fields and admitted the fallout was probably due to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI miss her terribly,\u201d he said. \u201cEven now, it\u2019s hard on me. I don\u2019t know why I was so stupid. Men are like that, you know. You find the perfect person, and then you do everything you can to screw it up.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The actor kept his regret for more than 40 years, and Sally refused to have any contact with him during the last years of Burt\u2019s life. In fact, she didn\u2019t talk to him for decades and the Steel Magnolias actress didn\u2019t want to have any kind of relationship with her former boyfriend.<\/p>\n

The real reason behind the break-up has never been clarified, but there were rumors that Burt was cheating on Fields. For Sally, it was very embarrassing when the reports came, and she felt like a fool.<\/p>\n

And yet, in the wake of his passing, Fields finally decided to speak out and admitted something that probably would have broken Burt\u2019s heart.<\/p>\n

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