Sally Field says ex-boyfriend Burt Reynolds was so jealous of her fame he couldn’t bear to attend Oscars
Sally Field says her ex-lover Burt Reynolds was so jealous of her movie fame it stopped him attending the Oscars. The actress, 77, had an on-off romance for five years with Burt – who died aged 82 in 2018 – in the late 1970s and early ’80s after they met while co-starring in ‘Smokey and the Bandit’, and she has now revealed despite his stardom he couldn’t handle her success. Sally tells in her upcoming book ‘50 Oscar Nights’ how Burt was furious about the attention she was receiving after her role in 1979’s ‘Norma Rae’. She said she wanted to go to the Cannes Film Festival in support of the fi...