Chelsea Handler remembers that Jane Fonda called her to behave ‘badly’
Jane Fonda once Chelsea -handler A dose of tough love.
“One day I received an e -mail from Jane Fonda who said: ‘Hello Chelsea, it’s Jane. I wondered if you could come to my house for dinner. I would like to talk to you about a few things, ” Handler, 50, reminded in her new memoirs, I will have what she hasReleased on Tuesday 25 February.
Handler noted that the message sounded ‘ominous’ and explained that she had been friends with Fonda, 87, for ‘at least 10 years’ and ‘it seemed a sort of a short e -mail to get her’. Handler answered and agreed to meet Fonda in her house that evening – to choose not to drink so that she could be ‘completely alert to my defense’.
“Jane’s attitude seemed a bit cold, and I wanted to know exactly what I had done,” Handler wrote and noticed that Fonda asked her if she knew why she was invited for dinner. Fonda said: ‘You may have noticed that I was a bit freezing to you when I saw you Shonda RhimesFundraising for Congressman John Lewis. “
Handler explained that she had attended the event three months earlier and had noticed that Fonda was ‘icy’ against her, but she was not ‘obsessed with’.
“You behaved badly at my party. From the moment you came in, you had a black cloud that hung over you and your offended people and it brought the whole party down. I don’t know what drugs you were, but a few people told me that you were terrible for them, “wrote Handler about Fonda, who asked why the comedian had attended the party if she was in ‘that kind of mood’.
For Handler, Fonda who called her on her “bad worn herself was as serious as it gets.” She added: “This was definitely not the woman I had dreamed of being dreamed.”
Handler called the moment “embarrassing, painful and absolutely circular,” but said that “none of those things reduced the fact that Jane had taken the time of her life to be honest with me.”
Jane Fonda comes from a family of actors, but she quickly made a name for herself and became an icon in herself. Jane, born in 1937 in Frances Ford Seymour and film legend Henry Fonda, became interested in acting as a teenager after she played next to her father in a charity performance in Nebraska. […]
“I needed someone to do that with me, and even at that moment of shame I knew she would never have to talk to me about my behavior again, because that is what that kind of honesty deserves: action,” Handler wrote about it Adding that she had recently started therapy.
The moment brought Handler to think about what she ‘tries to put in this world’, which she noted was ‘absolutely not what I did at Kane’s party’.
“The truth was: who knows which drugs I was on? It could have been everything, “Handler said and noted that her” behavior on drugs “depends on her” state of mind. “
Affected with fonda’s ‘brutal honesty’, acknowledged handler that the news was ‘hard to hear’ and shared with the 9 to 5 Star that she had been in therapy for two months to tackle her ‘deep anger’.
“Good,” she told me. ‘Go find out what your problem is, because your gifts are abundant, and sometimes people with the most gifts have the easiest time to throw them in the garbage can. Do not be a product of your environment, Chelsea. Let your environment be a product of you, “” Handler remembered and noticed that this moment was “the definition of sisterhood.”
Since that night, Handler Fonda has seen ‘many times’, including during an event for climate change that the activist organized. In an e -mail exchange after the event, Fonda shared that it meant “a lot” for her that handler followed.
Jane Fonda gave a powerful speech while he accepted the Life Achievement Award during the 2025 Screen Actors Guild Awards. Fonda, 87, came up with the stage at the event on Sunday 23 February, held in Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall in Los Angeles, after he had presented the honor by Julia Louis-Dreyfus. “Wow. This means the world […]
On the 80th birthday party of Fonda, Handler made an attempt not to blow it. “
“It was my first attempt to prove her that from now on I would only be on my best behavior. And I just kept trying to prove the hair, “wrote Handler and noticed that she appeared when Fonda had hip operation, since then did fund recruiters with her and had the actress on her podcast. “I exchanged myself with Jane and there was so much value in it – by prove to someone that you are indeed the person they thought you could be.”
Prior to the release of the memoirs, Handler spoke exclusively with US Weekly About becoming the best version of herself she could be.
“You want to lose the bad behavior that is offensive to others or offensive to yourself, and also take over this new version of you,” she shared in one Us Cover story earlier this month. “I don’t want to lose all the lead with which I was born by nature with who I am so is it is a bit slap-a-mole. You’re like that, ok, I am auditioned with different versions of myself, see which are the most logical for this improved version of me. “
I will have what she has Is now out.
