Jane Fonda contemplated her “complicated” marriage to media mogul Ted Turner in an exceptionally earnest tribute she shared on social media following news he had died at age 87.
Offering her “immediate thoughts about Ted” in a Wednesday afternoon Instagram post, the Hollywood veteran and lifelong activist looked back on their relationship as “challenging” while adding that she had “always been up for a challenge, and with Ted it was almost always worth it.”
“He swept into my life, a gloriously handsome, deeply romantic, swashbuckling pirate and I’ve never been the same,” she said of Turner, who was her husband from 1991 until their 2001 divorce.
Explaining how it felt for the multifaceted billionaire to need her love, Fonda wrote, “No one had ever let me know they needed me, and this wasn’t your average human being that needed me, this was the creator of CNN, and Turner Classic Movies, who had won the America’s Cup as the world’s greatest sailor. He had a big life, a brilliant mind and a soaring sense of humor.”
She also acknowledged his ability to care for her. “To be needed and cared for simultaneously is transformative,” she wrote.
