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After three marriages, FondatoldPage Sixin a virtual conversationahead of theGolden Globesthat she’s not looking for a fourth.
“I’ll tell you something that I haven’t achieved, which is a successful marriage,” Fonda, 83, said. “But the second part of your question is, ‘Do you want to?’ I don’t want to.”
Fonda went on to explain how she’s been enjoying her alone time after her last relationship ended in 2017. The two-time Oscar winner dated music mogul Richard Perry for eight years before the split.
Fonda was first married to French director Roger Vadim from 1965 to 1973 and the two welcomed daughter Vanessa in 1968. She then married politician Tom Hayden from 1973 to 1990, welcoming son Troy in 1973. Fonda’s last marriage was to CNN founder Ted Turner from 1991 to 2001.
Fonda received the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 2021Golden Globe Awardson Sunday night.
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“In turbulent, crisis-torn times like these, storytelling have always been essential. You see, stories have a way that can change our hearts and our minds and help us see each other in a new light — to have empathy and to recognize that for all of our diversity that we are all humans first,” she began.
“Just this year,Nomadlandhelped me feel loved for the wanderers among us andMinariopened my eyes to the experience of immigrants dealing with the realities of life in a new land,” Fonda continued, going on to give shoutouts to works likeSmall Axe,Ma Rainey’s Black BottomandOne Night in Miamithat have “deepened my empathy for what being Black has meant.”
Fonda also referencedI May Destroy You, which wasglaringly omitted from the Globes nominations listthis year, saying that the critically acclaimed HBO series “taught me to consider sexual violence in a whole new way.”
“Stories, they really can change people,” she continued. “But there’s a story that we’ve been afraid to see and hear about ourselves in this industry: a story about which voices we respect and elevate and which we tune out. A story about who’s offered a seat at the table and who is kept out of the rooms where decisions are made.”
source: people.com
