Sally Field assures that Burt Reynolds "invented" that she was the love of his life

Sally Field assures that Burt Reynolds "invented" that she was the love of his life

Sally Field decided that it was time to demolish one of the great Hollywood myths: that she was the great love in the life of Burt Reynolds, with whom she was in a relationship for five years and with whom she worked on four films, including Two Rogues with Luck and its sequel. 

The actress, in dialogue with the publication Variety, took as a kick the words that the Boogie Nights actor (who died on September 6, 2018) had poured into his memoirs, But Enough About Me, to give his version of the relationship that they filed In the book

 Reynolds described Field as the most important woman he had ever had a relationship with, and even lamented that he couldn't "fight harder for her" as the bond between them was so strong.

Contrary to the actor's testimony, Field assured that everything he wrote about her "was an invention" "She was not a person who did me any good in any way," said the Forrest Gump actress, who met Reynolds precisely at the filming of the successful Two lucky rogues. From 1977 to 1982, they had a rocky relationship that took an emotional toll on Field.

"Somehow he made up a whole story, and he thought I was more important to him than I really was, because I wasn't important," Field added. "He just wanted to have what he didn't have, and I didn't want to deal with it," stressed the actress, who did not attend the funeral of her partner.

When they told her the news that the actor had died, the Oscar winner limited herself to providing a few statements to Page Six. "There are moments in your life that are indelible and will never be erased, that remain alive even 40 years later, and my years with Burt have never left my mind, they will remain in my history and in my heart as long as I live," he had Field manifested before the death of the actor, product of an acute myocardial infarction.