{"id":13805,"date":"2025-12-12T12:38:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T12:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=13805"},"modified":"2025-12-12T12:38:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T12:38:52","slug":"actress-sally-field-was-the-love-of-burt-reynolds-life-but-she-refused-to-speak-to-him-in-his-final-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=13805","title":{"rendered":"Actress Sally Field was the love of Burt Reynolds\u2019 life, but she refused to speak to him in his final 30 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"87\" data-end=\"408\">Burt Reynolds\u2019 death in 2018 was mourned worldwide. Despite his long career and many romances, he always said his greatest love was Sally Field. The two met while filming <em data-start=\"258\" data-end=\"281\">Smokey and the Bandit<\/em> in 1977, and Burt even fought for her to get the role. They became a high-profile couple and worked on several films together.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"410\" data-end=\"705\">Sally once said Burt made her feel \u201csexy,\u201d but behind the scenes, their relationship was difficult. In her memoir, she revealed that Burt\u2019s fame made him controlling and that she \u201cstopped existing,\u201d living entirely for him. He asked her to marry him several times, but she knew it wouldn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"707\" data-end=\"950\">They split in 1980 after about five years together. Burt later admitted he regretted losing her, saying, \u201cI miss her terribly\u2026 you find the perfect person and screw it up.\u201d Sally, however, cut contact for decades and didn\u2019t speak to him again.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"952\" data-end=\"1145\">Rumors of cheating and emotional turmoil surrounded their breakup. Still, after Burt died of a heart attack at 82, Sally shared a heartfelt tribute, saying he would remain in her heart forever.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1147\" data-end=\"1325\">Later, she said she was relieved Burt wasn\u2019t alive to read her memoir, where she described him as \u201cconfusing, complicated, and hurtful,\u201d believing he wouldn\u2019t have taken it well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burt Reynolds\u2019 death in 2018 was mourned worldwide. Despite his long career and many romances, he always said his greatest love was Sally Field. The two met while filming Smokey and the Bandit in 1977, and Burt even fought for her to get the role. They became a high-profile couple and worked on several films&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=13805\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Actress Sally Field was the love of Burt Reynolds\u2019 life, but she refused to speak to him in his final 30 years&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13807,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13805\/revisions\/13807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}