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  1. Oscar-winning actress Sally Field is opening up about being sexually abused and her past dysfunctional relationships for the first time in her upcoming memoir, In Pieces. The “Gidget” star writes that as a child she was sexually abused by her stepfather, Jock Mahoney, until she was 14. Field spoke to The New York Times about her book ...

  2. Sep 11, 2018 · Sally Field Describes Sexual Abuse by Stepfather in 'Raw' New Memoir: 'I Felt Helpless'. When Sally Field said her new memoir, In Pieces, would be "incredibly raw, intimate and personal," readers ...

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    Sally’s mother, Margaret Field, briefly an actress in Hollywood, married the stuntman/B actor Jock (“Jocko”) Mahoney when Sally was 4. He could be both a charmer and a bully. When she was about 7, her mother, on her way to make breakfast, would tell Sally that Jocko wanted her to go into their bedroom to walk on his back. He would be lying face dow...

    In the summer of 1964, Field discovered she was pregnant. (She implies the father was an unnamed boy she met after graduation.) Her stepfather Jocko stepped in (“I couldn’t stand his imperceptible note of triumph”) and arranged a Tijuana abortion; she was driven there with her mother by a family friend named Dr. Duke, who soon reappears in her stor...

    At a social gathering in 2005, director Steven Spielberg told Field he'd bought the rights to Doris Kearns Goodwin’s “Team of Rivals” and wanted her to play Mary Todd Lincoln. “To portray the much-maligned, mentally challenged Mrs. Lincoln in a film directed by one of the most creative filmmakers who has ever lived was an opportunity I felt with ev...

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  3. Sep 11, 2018 · Alex Wong/Getty. Actress Sally Field opened up about her history with sexual abuse in her new memoir, writing that her stepfather, JockJockoMahoney, abused her until she was 14 years old ...

  4. Sep 12, 2018 · Actress and director Sally Field has bared it all in her new memoir, touching on everything from her relationship with Hollywood icon Burt Reynolds to the sexual abuse she suffered as a child at the hands of her stepfather, actor and stuntman Jock Mahoney.In her memoir “In Pieces,” scheduled for a Sept. 18 release, Field revealed that Mahoney often called her to his bedroom, alone, The New ...

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  5. Sep 13, 2018 · Sally’s mother, Margaret Field, briefly an actress in Hollywood, married the stuntman/B actor Jock (“Jocko”) Mahoney when Sally was 4. He could be both a charmer and a bully.

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  7. Sally Field has opened up about how she was sexually abused for years as a child by her stepfather and had a secret abortion at 17. ... 1952 to stuntman and actor Jock Mahoney, best known for his ...

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