Sally Field, a beloved star of “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen,” opted to open up about her worst on-screen kiss on the show on Thursday, December 1 in response to a fan’s inquisitive query.
Field, 76, looked around after the question was asked, laughing, “Oh boy. Shall I really name names here?”
“I think you should,” Cohen, 54, replied.
Field caved: “Okay. This is going to be a shocker. Hold on folks.”
The Academy Award-winning actress accused her ex-boyfriend, actor Burt Reynolds, of the crime. Cohen immediately followed up by saying, “But weren’t you dating at the time?”
Field explained that it was during filming for “Smokey and the Bandit” that she had to “look the other way” during filming. She said this was because this “just was not something he really did for you.”
“Isn’t that something,” Cohen responded in surprise.
The actress continued by saying that Reynolds did a lot of “drooling” while they were on screen together.The two co-stars first connected in 1977 while doing “Smokey and the Bandit,” and they dated for around five years after that.
According to the New York Post, Reynolds, who tragically passed away at age 82 from a cardiac arrest, discussed his friendship with Field in his autobiography But Enough About Me.
The star expressed regret about their time together, wishing that he had tried harder to make things work between them.
Field told Variety in March that she had had excellent reason for ceasing communication with Reynolds throughout the last 30 years of his life.
“He was not someone I could be around,” she elaborated. “He was just not good for me in any way. And he had somehow invented in his rethinking of everything that I was more important to him than he had thought, but I wasn’t. He just wanted to have the thing he didn’t have. I just didn’t want to deal with that.”