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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 ...
Sep 11, 2018 · In her new memoir In Pieces Sally Field describes the sexual abuse by her stepfather Jack Mahoney. ... actor and stuntman Jock Mahoney. Field says that when she was 14 years old, he would ...
Sally Field has revealed she was repeatedly sexually abused by her stepfather. ... Richard in 1951 and re-married in 1952 to stuntman and actor Jock Mahoney, best known for his role in Tarzan Goes ...
- Her Stepfather Sexually Abused Her
- Surviving Difficult Times in The 1960s as A TV Star
- Determined to Be Mrs. Lincoln
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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Their daughter, Princess O'Mahoney, was born six months later. Margaret Field already had two young children, Richard D. Field and Sally Field, from her first marriage. Mahoney and Field divorced in June 1968. In her 2018 memoir, In Pieces, Sally Field wrote that Mahoney subjected her to sexual abuse throughout her childhood, up to the age 14.
Oct 18, 2018 · Sally Field’s “In Pieces” is not a typical Hollywood memoir. The most powerful and revealing parts aren’t about Hollywood at all, but about the cruel, infuriating injustices foisted upon ...
Sep 11, 2018 · After Margaret Field filed for divorce from Sally’s father, Richard, in 1951, she got remarried in 1952 to Jock Mahoney, a stuntman and actor (“Tarzan Goes to India”) known by the nickname ...
