Jane Fonda pays tribute to Ted Turner (Image: Getty)
Jane Fonda has shared a heartfelt tribute after the dying of Ted Turner, the NCS founder who handed on May 6 at 87-years-previous.
Fonda, 88, took to Instagram to share her ideas following Turner’s passing. She was married to Turner for ten years earlier than they break up in 2001. She wrote, “MY IMMEDIATE THOUGHTS ABOUT TED. He swept into my life, a gloriously handsome, deeply romantic, swashbuckling pirate, and I’ve never been the same.
“He wanted me. No one had ever let me know they wanted me, and this wasn’t your common human being that wanted me; this was the creator of NCS and Turner Classic Movies, who had gained the America’s Cup because the world’s biggest sailor. He had an enormous life, a superb thoughts, and a hovering humorousness,” she mentioned, simply her previous comments about Turner on NCS are recirculating.
She continued, “I liked Ted with all my coronary heart. I see him in heaven now with all of the wildlife he helped carry again from extinction – the black footed ferrets, the prairie canine, the bighorn sheep, Mexican Gray Wolf, the Yellowstone wolf pack, bison, the pink cockaded woodpecker and so many extra, they’re all gathered on the pearly gates applauding and thanking him for saving their species.
“Five children survive him, five talented, complex kids who I had the privilege of becoming stepmother to. I had four stepmothers growing up, and I know how important stepmothers can be, so we all did our best to build an extended, ragtag family, and I love them to this day. If it was complicated to be married to him, think how complicated it was being his child. And they are all doing fine,” she mentioned, earlier than ending, “Rest in Peace, dearest Ted. You are loved and you will be remembered.”
Months earlier than his dying, in November 2025, Fonda spoke about Turner throughout an occasion for the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential, which they based collectively. She turned emotional whereas addressing the gang.
“It was a very challenging time in Georgia. Had I not been with Ted, this was something, had he not stood by me with his love and support, we never would have survived,” she mentioned. “Ted’s not here, but he is here in my heart and I know he is here in a lot of our hearts.”
Fonda and Turner started their relationship in 1990 after her break up from her second husband, Tom Hayden. Turner initially reached out by calling her straight.
Jane Fonda and Ted Turner break up up in 2001 (Image: Getty)
“He wanted to know if I was available to date,” Fonda instructed People in 1990. “I think I said I wasn’t feeling so hot, that he was an interesting guy, too, but I wasn’t feeling peppy.”
The two married a yr later at Turner’s Florida plantation and shortly turned a excessive-profile couple. “Ted can keep up with me,’’ Fonda said at the time. “He’s a very, very funny, lovable, complicated person.”
Their marriage confronted challenges early on, together with claims of infidelity shortly after their wedding ceremony. They remained collectively for years earlier than separating in 2000.
Despite their break up, the 2 stayed on good phrases. Fonda referred to Turner as “my favorite ex-husband!” in 2001 and later mentioned in 2008, “I still have a very good relationship [with him]. Life is too short to be fighting.”
Turner leaves behind a legacy in media, having created the primary 24-hour information community and expanded his enterprise affect via Turner Broadcasting System. He was additionally recognized for his philanthropic work, notably in environmental causes and with the United Nations.
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