SALLY FIELD THE TRUTH About Me & Burt

AFTER YEARS OF SILENCE, THE OSCAR WINNER SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT ABOUT HER DIFFICULT RELATIONSHIP WITH THE HOLLYWOOD ICON

In the last decade of his life, Burt Reynolds would often talk wistfully of his former girlfriend Sally Field. “She was the love of my life, and I screwed the relationship up,” he said in 2016.“That sense of loss never goes away.”

Sally and Burt became Hollywood's golden couple after starring together in the 1977 feel-good comedy Smokey and the Bandit. “You can see it in our faces. We were sort of, you know, deeply entangled,” Sally, 75, said of their instantaneous attraction on the set. The romance survived almost five years, but Sally called it off in 1982. Though she never spoke with Burt again, she remembered him fondly following his 2018 passing. “He will be in my history and my heart for as long as I live,” she said.