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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 america's most celebrated smiles, the abuse she suffered as a child. this evening, diane and sally field, and what she's now revealing. >> reporter: it's hard to imagine a sunnier american face. you're looking at a tape from 54 years ago, an unknown teenager in a kind of audition. >> when i go to the beach, unless there's boys there, or my boyfriend, then it's not any fun just by myself.

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? it's 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 the screen for 50 years with rare power. >> why? why? your life is never one thing, and the times w...

Officials say at least one person killed. >> i know it might be a little scary, but we got you. we're 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 wilmington virtually cut off. we tried getting there from the south. this is highway 17. we're jus...

>> well, he didn't do that, and he wasn't at the party. so, you know, clearly, somebody's 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. i've talked a lot about my friends and they've been here, so, it was very formative. and when i think back on it -- >> you left out the trouble part. i was wa...

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: kavanaugh's 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 claims, were "stumbling drunk" at a party and forced her into a bedroom. she alleges kavanaugh "pi...