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Jane Fonda and Ted Turner in 1994 Jane Fonda has shared her thoughts on her “complicated” marriage to media mogul Ted Turner in an exceptionally earnest tribute following the news of his death at the age of 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 divorce in 2001. 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 humour.” Jane Fonda looked back at her "challenging" relationship with media mogul Ted Turner following news of his death on Wednesday She also acknowledged his ability to care for her, writing: “To be needed and cared for simultaneously is transformative.” “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 to say, 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”. “Whether it was who’d made the most ski runs at the end of the day, to acres of land owned (stewarded is the more fitting word for his relationship to land), who had the most billions, how many countries he’d made love to his prior lover in and could I match that, it was challenging,” she said. Continuing her lengthy homage in the comments, the Barbarella star said: “I loved Ted with all my heart.” Jane Fonda and Ted Turner kiss during the actor's 2006 roast. Married from 1991 to 2001, she called him her "favorite ex-husband" less than a week before his death. “I see him in heaven now with all the wildlife he helped bring back from extinction,” Fonda went on. “ The black footed ferrets, the prairie dogs, Big Horned sheep, Mexican Gray Wolf, the Yellowstone wolf pack, bison, the red cockaded woodpecker and so many more, they’re all gathered at the pearly gates applauding and thanking him for saving their species.” Addressing the five offspring that now survive Turner, she called them, “ five talented, complex kids who I had the privilege of becoming stepmother to”. “I love them to this day,” she went on. “If it was complicated to be married to him, think how complicated it was being his child. And they are all doing fine.” “Rest in Peace, dearest Ted,” her message ended. “You are loved and you will be remembered.” Though the couple split in 2001, they remained friends after. Less than a week before his death, Fonda had called the television trailblazer her “favourite ex-husband” during the opening of this year’s TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood, adding that founding the festival’s namesake network, Turner Classic Movies, is just one of the “great things that he did”. Turner will also be remembered as the creator of CNN, the world’s first 24-hour cable news channel, as well as WTBS and TNT. READ MRE: Jane Fonda Gets Emotional While Opening Up About Friend Robert Redford’s Death Jane Fonda Raises Questions About Barbra Streisand's Oscars Tribute To Robert Redford Jane Fonda Gets Honest About What Sex Scenes Were Like Before Intimacy Coordinators
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