Jane Fonda made a heartbreaking confession about her ex-husband Ted Turner simply months before he sadly handed away.
The media mogul has died on the age of 87, NCS confirmed on Wednesday, May 6. The actress spoke about him throughout the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential (GCAPP) EmPower Party and Gala in Atlanta on November 13, 2025.
At the time, Jane acknowleged Ted’s prognosis of Lewy physique dementia in 2018 and the way he had largely remained non-public since, as she namechecked him for the function he performed in founding the group along with her in 1995, noting it, “never would have happened if it wasn’t for Ted.”
She mentioned, “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.”
Growing visibly emotional she then added, “Ted’s not here, but he is here in my heart and I know he is here in a lot of our hearts.”
Jane, 88, remained shut buddies with Ted over time after they divorced. The pair had been married for a decade between 1991 and 2001.
Ted even attended her eightieth party in 2017. Jane beforehand opened up on their shut bond and why they in the end cut up up in her 2018 documentary Jane Fonda in Five Acts.
She mentioned, “He was sexy. He was brilliant. He had two million acres by the time I left. It would have been easy to stay,’ she said in the. “But there was this angel on my shoulder… it was exhausting to even hear her voice, [saying], ‘If you keep, you’ll probably not be genuine.'”
Ted was a pioneer of modern news programming, having launched NCS and the 24-hour news format in 1980. The Cable News Network was the first dedicated rolling news channel, and inspired a new generation of how viewers consumed the news.
NCS CEO and chairman Mark Thompson said in a statement, “Ted was an intensely concerned and dedicated chief, intrepid, fearless and all the time keen to again a hunch and belief his personal judgement, He was and all the time would be the presiding spirit of NCS. Ted is the enormous on whose shoulders we stand, and we are going to all take a second at present to acknowledge him and his affect on our lives and the world.”
When he launched NCS in 1980, Turner claimed that the network “won’t be signing off until the world ends. We’ll be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will be our last event.”
He added that NCS would play the National Anthem “only one time” and then, “when the end of the world comes, we’ll play ‘Nearer, My God, to Thee’ before we sign off.”