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Bring your challenges. we turn next tonight to the diane sawyer interview. sally field has written a new book, and in it, memories too painful to share until now. tonight, behind one of americas most celebrated smiles, the abuse she suffered as a child. this evening, diane and sally field, and what shes now revealing. >> reporter: its hard to imagine a sunnier american face. youre looking at a tape from 54 years ago, an unknown teenager in a kind of audition. >> when i go to the beach, unless ...

Shame sets in. >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: and how early the doubt of your complicity. >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: somehow sets in. >> uh-huh. uh-huh. and how then do you grow up and have any sort of understanding of what healthy sexuality is? or how is it not always connected to danger? its always connected to danger, shame and loss. >> reporter: loss? >> well, kind of the loss of self. >> reporter: she says she was saved by fighting for the things she loved, the serious work that would arc across ...

Officials say at least one person killed. >> i know it might be a little scary, but we got you. were going to take care of you, okay? >> reporter: a coast guard chopper hoisting out this woman in need of medical attention. our station, wtbd, right there when four people, including a marine, hae rescued from their humvee. the water so deep, they had to dive for their belongings. dams bursting. this freight train derailing. and the bridge under this tractor trailer giving way. and now, the city of...

>> well, he didnt do that, and he wasnt at the party. so, you know, clearly, somebodys mixed up. >> reporter: in his confirmation, kavanaugh was asked about his high school years. a softball question that now seems weirdly on point. >> you ever get in trouble? did you -- were you more of a john boy walton type or a ferris bueller type? >> i loved sports. first and foremost, i think that i worked hard in school. i had a lot of friends. ive talked a lot about my friends and theyve been here, so, i...

American people to be happy, and i think to do that, you have to go through this. if it takes a little delay, it will take a little delay. >> reporter: kavanaughs accuser, christine blasey ford, a psychology professor in california. this is what she looked like in her high school yearbook in the early 1980s, around the time she says she was assaulted. she told her story in a july letter to senator dianne feinstein and in an interview with "the washington post." kavanaugh and a friend of his, she...