Sally Field is sharing the “traumatic” experience of her illegal abortion while encouraging followers to support Vice President Kamala Harris in her presidential campaign.

In a video posted on Sunday, the beloved “Flying Nun” actress, now 77, recounted her abortion at age 17, before the historic Supreme Court ruling Roe v. Wade, which affirmed the right to abortion. Field, who admitted to feeling some lingering shame “because I was raised in the ’50s,” noted that she “didn’t have much family support” when she found herself pregnant as a teenager.

She described how a family doctor took her, his wife, and her mother to Tijuana, Mexico, for the procedure. Once they arrived, the doctor handed her an envelope of cash and instructed her to go to a nearby building. “It was incredibly traumatic and changed my life,” she recalled, emphasizing that there was “no anesthetic” and she “felt everything.”

“Then I realized the technician was actually assaulting me,” Field stated. “I had to think about how to move my arms to push him away? It was an overwhelming sense of shame. Once it was done, they hurried me out, saying ‘Go, go, go,’ as if the place was on fire. They wanted me gone because it was illegal.”

In her post’s caption, Field mentioned that she had been “reluctant” to share her “horrific story” but emphasized that “many women of my generation faced similarly traumatic experiences” and want to “fight for their grandchildren and all the young women in this country.”

“It’s one of the reasons so many of us are supporting Kamala Harris and Tim Walz,” she added. “Everyone, please, pay attention to this election, from top to bottom, in every state – especially those with ballot measures that could protect reproductive rights. PLEASE. WE CAN’T GO BACK!!”

The upcoming presidential election in 2024 will be the first since the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022, which removed the constitutional right to abortion. Last month, Harris expressed her support for eliminating the filibuster to restore abortion protections akin to those established by Roe v. Wade. Her opponent, former President Donald Trump, has praised the Supreme Court’s decision but claims he would veto any national abortion ban, arguing that the states should make that decision.

Sally Field discusses her teenage abortion in memoir

Field had previously shared details of her 1964 abortion in her 2018 memoir “In Pieces.”

“I know how frightening it was for that 17-year-old girl: how terrified I was and how close I might have come to dying,” she told NPR back then. “I think of all the women globally who  lose their lives, or their chance to have more children, or who suffer intense shame because their society or government views unwanted pregnancies in a specific way.”

Field returned to Instagram in August, motivated by Harris’ presidential campaign. “I haven’t been active on social media,” she admitted. “Not since it became such a negative space under our former President. But ‘hope is on the rise.’ So here I am.”

In another post that same day, Field posted a picture of herself with Harris’ Democratic National Convention speech in the background and encouraged her followers to “vote for democracy” by supporting Harris.

“This election is crucial for our reproductive rights, the protection of our planet, gun safety, the freedom to love whom you choose, and the freedom to read what you like,” she stated on National Voter Registration Day. “It’s a chance to preserve Democracy.”