Hijinks ensue, along with a blooming romance.
In an interview withABC News, Field remembered that time.
“We’d known each other about three days, four days.
It was instantaneous, and four days felt like four years.
you might see it in our faces, we were sort of deeply entangled.”
Thestar-crossed loversdated for five years, eventually parting ways in the early ’80s.
Margaret Field knew her daughter’s romance was doomed, and Reynolds' told the story toPeople.
You never intend to."
“I did four movies with Sally and spent five years with her.
She was the love of my life and I screwed the relationship up.”
During their relationship, Reynolds talked about marriage and having his own kid with Field.
She also admitted toNPRshe felt some relief he wouldn’t be reading her memoir.
“Now at least he’s safe from that, because I think it would hurt him.”
Upon his death in 2018, Field sent a statement toHuffPost.
“They stay alive, even forty years later.
My years with Burt never leave my mind.
He will be in my history and my heart, for as long as I live.
Rest, Buddy.”
“He was not someone I could be around.
He was just not good for me in any way,” she confessed toVariety.
He just wanted to have the thing he didn’t have."
Looks like Mama Field was right about hearts breaking more than one.
