Jane Fonda Reflects On 'Complicated' Marriage To The Late Ted Turner

LOADINGERROR LOADINGJane 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.”Advertisement “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.”Jane Fonda looked back at her "challenging" relationship with media mogul Ted Turner following news of his death on Wednesday.

The couple is pictured here during the 1990 Cannes Film Festival.Jean-Pierre REY via Getty ImagesAdvertisement She also acknowledged his ability to care for her.“To be needed and cared for simultaneously is transformative,” she wrote.“Ted Turner helped me believe in myself.

He gave me confidence.I think I did the same for him, but that’s what women are raised to do,” the Oscar-winner went on, calling Turner’s ability to be vulnerable one of his “greatest strengths.”Fonda said she learned more from Turner than “more than any other person or school classes” could teach before remarking how he was the “most competitive person” she had ever met ― besides storied actor Katharine Hepburn ― and how “fascinating” that was “to witness.�...