Trigger warning: The following article contains mentions of sexual assault and suicide.
My stepfather was both cruel and loving, and therefore our relationship was very confusing.
Even though my mother is a loving person, she and my real father were extremely passive and repressed.
At the time, Lee Majors was also an up-and-coming star, and the two ended up linked romantically.
But Pete and I just rise above it.
Because we do enjoy each other.
… We’re having fun, man.
And that’s so rare in itself, why can’t they just let it alone?"
Field remembered her time with the actor in a 2007 video, saying, “I loved Pete.
Loved him, loved him, loved him, loved him.
… Bless him and god damn him because he isn’t alive.
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The magazine also included an interview with Sally Field in which she described first meeting the band member.
But that night I only got to talk to him for a few minutes.
When I saw Davy at the studio I thought he was so neat.
What’s great is that when we got talking, I found we had the same sense of humor.
We laugh all the time and just goof around,” she said.
In September 2018, Webb responded to Field’s allegations of assault in an email to theNew York Times.
“All I can do is recount my memories of dating Sally in the swingin' 1960s.
Sally and I were young, successful stars in Hollywood.
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Then, in May 1972, the couple welcomed their second son Eli to the world.
“I knew early on that my mother wasn’t like other moms.
And my father, who lives on this quasi-commune in Oregon, wasn’t really like other dads.
In a way, my whole life has been full of extremes.”
“This is what happens when you have dramatic parents, I guess,” he said.
Field went anyway and won her very first Oscar that night.
“He was not someone I could be around.
He was just not good for me in any way.
“I don’t want to play any role unless it’s one I choose to play onscreen.
I don’t want to feel I have to obey anybody else’s rules except my own.
“I was never a person that knew how to say no to people.
The only way I could get out of things was to tell people I had lost my mind.
I told him I was having a breakdown and I was being sent away,” she explained.
“I couldn’t figure out how to say ‘I’m really just not into this.'”
As the actor explained toPeoplethat same year, “[Playing Edna] changed my vision of myself.
I don’t need anybody.’
I was sort of chanting that subconsciously to myself, like the little engine that could.
Edna opened me up.
I found that people are meant to need one another.
I’ve spent most of my life saying ‘Oh, no they’re not!'”
During a January 1996 interview withPeople, Field explained where the cracks began to form in their relationship.
“He wanted to go out, to be with people or go to parties.
I couldn’t take it.
I’d have an anxiety attack.
The joy had gone out of Mudville.
Instead of appreciating what we cared about in each other, we focused on the negative things.
I didn’t want to live in a household that was tense and unhappy,” she said.
They divorced in 1994 but remained focused on raising their son together.
They are great at co-parenting.”
I don’t feel seen and loved unless I’m also terrified.
There’s something wrong with that,” she remarked, laughing.
“[Field and I] did have kind of an on-camera little, you know, thing going.
With Tom Brady, Larry Fitzgerald, and Jim Gray.”
