The Oscar winner said that she had the procedure done in Tijuana months before beginning her acting career.
“I had no choices in my life.
I didn’t have a lot of family support or finances.
Sally Field as Gidget in ‘Gidget’.Sheedy-Long /TV Guide /Courtesy Everett
I graduated high school but no one ever said, ‘How about college?’
Nothing,” recalled Field.
“We parked on a really scrungy looking street.
It was scary,” said Field.
“And he parked about three blocks away and said, ‘See that building down there?’
Field described the procedure as “beyond hideous and life-altering.”
The actress said she was not given an anesthetic.
So it was just this absolute pit of shame.”
“They didn’t want me there, you know, it was illegal.”
“A few months after that, I began auditions.
I didn’t have an agent.
I wasn’t really an actor.
I’d been doing it in high school constantly.
And I began auditioning.
And by the end of that year, I was Gidget.
I was the quintessential, all-American girl next door.”
“Pay attention to this election,” Field implored.
“We can’t go back.”
The star first revealed she had an abortion in her 2018 memoirIn Pieces.
Watch Field’s video message in full above.
