The Real Feelings of Sally Field and Other Women Towards Burt Reynolds

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Perhaps the last word, though, should go to Field, who, in an interview with NPR in September 2018, summed up her relationship with Reynolds. When asked how long she dated Reynolds, she answered, “Maybe two years on and off for maybe three years total.” “But it was so crucial to my own existence and development as a human,” the speaker said. She then alluded to a possible contributing factor to the breakup, saying, “We were a perfect mix of defects.”