In her memoir, "In Pieces", Sally Field has revealed that she was sexually abused by her stepfather Jock Mahoney a number of times in her adolescence.
According to The New York Times, the Oscar-winning actor only opened up to her mother Margaret about being assaulted by the stuntman and actor, who went by the nickname Jocko, after she learned she had bagged the role of Mary Todd Lincoln in 2012's "Lincoln".
Field, 71, made dinner for her mother and poured her heart out. Next morning, her mother, even in her declining health, assured her that she would not be alone any longer in her pain.
In her book, the actor calls Mahoney "the Pied Piper with our family".
"It would have been so much easier if I'd only felt one thing, if Jocko had been nothing but cruel and frightening. But he wasn't. He could be magical..." she adds.
She says he frequently summoned her to his bedroom alone.
"I knew. I felt both a child, helpless, and not a child. Powerful. This was power. And I owned it. But I wanted to be a child and yet."
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