‘Any time you feel like sticking a knife in your f****r, snap it tight’: Jane Fonda shares her secret to overcoming a painful breakup – a rubber band
- Jane Fonda has revealed the secret to surviving a painful romantic breakup
- The two-time Oscar winner said she decided to stop dating at 80
- Fonda, 85, has been married three times and has had several different relationships
With three marriages and multiple relationships in her 85 years, Jane Fonda has learned a thing or two about breakups.
And now the Hollywood veteran has revealed the secret to surviving the pain of a romantic meltdown without getting into a fight: a rubber band.
“For anyone going through a painful breakup, I want to share some advice that my therapist gave me,” she says. “Put a rubber band around your wrist, and every time you feel like sticking a knife up your ass, snap it tight.
“It throws you off – it works.”
Fonda says she received the advice when she split from media mogul Ted Turner, whom she says she adored, though they divorced after a decade together in 2001.
The two-time Oscar winner, who recently announced she is in remission from cancer, said she stopped dating at 80 but has thrown herself into her work. She has three films out this year, including 80 For Brady, a comedy about octogenarian American football fans trying to get into the Super Bowl.
Fonda was married to Barbarella director Roger Vadim between 1968 and 1973
She married activist Tom Hayden in 1973 and the couple remained together until their divorce in 1990
She split from media mogul Ted Turner in 2001 after a decade together
The film also stars her frequent collaborator Lily Tomlin, 83, and other close friends Rita Moreno, 91, and her group’s “baby” Sally Field, 76. The quartet spoke together in today’s You magazine, where Fonda described why she was male is friendships differ from female.
‘Men [when they socialise] tend to pay attention to things like cars and sports,” she says. “Women, when they’re together, look straight into each other’s eyes. We are not afraid to ask each other for help. I think that’s why women live longer than men.
“Sometimes years go by that I don’t see Sally – but when we have dinner we go straight to the soul level, very intensely.” She then quipped, “We get drunk too.”
Fonda was married to Barbarella film director Roger Vadim between 1968 and 1973 and to activist Tom Hayden from 1973 to 1990 before marrying CNN founder Turner.
Following her split from her last partner, record producer Richard Perry, in 2017, she said she’d given up dating, declaring last month, “I’m happier than I’ve ever been.”
She has also continued her activism, spending her 82nd birthday in prison after being arrested with Field and Tomlin at a climate change protest in Washington DC in 2019.
She said, “Hope is a verb… Hope requires action.”