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    Sally Field Wasn't Sure She'd Have The Guts To Publish Her New Memoir

    "I wrote it for myself," Field says of her intensely personal accounting of her life and career. In Pieces describes childhood abuse, an abortion at 17, and her relationship with Burt Reynolds.
    by Ari Shapiro Sep 11, 2018 5 minutes
    Field sits on a surfboard in a promotional portrait for the 1965 television series <em>Gidget.</em> "I represented the 'girl next door' the 'all-American girl,' " she says.

    Emmy- and Oscar-winning actress Sally Field could have written a famous-people-I've-known memoir. But her new book, In Pieces, is instead an intensely personal, vulnerable accounting of her life and career.

    Field, now 71, got her start when she was a teenager on the 1960s TV sitcom Gidget, in which she played the title character — a squeaky clean surfer girl living with her loving, widowed father. But her TV persona was at odds with her home life. In the book, Field describes the abuse she suffered at the hands of her stepfather, actor Jock Mahoney. The abuse was both emotional and sexual, and Field says those experiences forced her to divide herself into pieces to survive; to wall off the pain and push forward.

    That impulse showed in her acting. "Like flipping a switch, I began to bubble," she writes about her early roles on and

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