'In Pieces': Sally Field memoir reveals abuse and trauma she faced as a teen
Once Sally Field was sure that she had landed the role of Mary Todd Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's movie 'Lincoln', she opened up to her mother who was then suffering from cancer, about an episode of sexual abuse that took place when Field was just a young girl. She revealed that the abuse, carried out by her stepfather - Jock Mahoney - did not stop until the actress turned 14.
Field confides the nightmare in her memoir 'In Pieces', which she was initially unsure about releasing. During her speech back in 2012 at the Women and Power conference in the Omega Institute at Rhinebeck, N.Y., the actress recalled that even in her declining state of health her mother, actress Margaret Field who was married to Jock from 1952 to 1968, had assured her that she was not alone in her fight.