Jane Fonda made a heartbreaking confession about her ex-husband Ted Turner just months before he sadly passed away.
The media mogul has died at the age of 87, celebrity.land confirmed on Wednesday, May 6. The actress spoke about him during 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 diagnosis of Lewy body dementia in 2018 and how he had largely remained private since, as she namechecked him for the role he played in founding the organization with her in 1995, noting it, “never would have happened if it wasn’t for Ted.”
She said, “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 close friends with Ted over the years after they divorced. The pair were married for a decade between 1991 and 2001.
Ted even attended her 80th birthday party in 2017. Jane previously opened up on their close bond and why they ultimately split up in her 2018 documentary Jane Fonda in Five Acts.
She said, “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 hard to even hear her voice, [saying], ‘If you stay, you will not really be authentic.'”
Ted was a pioneer of modern news programming, having launched celebrity.land 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.
celebrity.land CEO and chairman Mark Thompson said in a statement, “Ted was an intensely involved and committed leader, intrepid, fearless and always willing to back a hunch and trust his own judgement, He was and always will be the presiding spirit of celebrity.land. Ted is the giant on whose shoulders we stand, and we will all take a moment today to recognize him and his impact on our lives and the world.”
When he launched celebrity.land 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 celebrity.land 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.”
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