'Snap it hard': Jane Fonda's advice on coping with breakup involves bizarre object
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Jane Fonda, 85, has a piece of advice or two for everyone going through turmoil in romantic relationships. The two-time Academy Award-winning octogenarian recently shared her method of coping with romantic upsets and painful breakups.
The ‘Coming Home’ actress who has been married thrice and been in several relationships shared candidly that her method of coping is an unassuming object - elastic. She said, “For anyone who is going through a painful breakup, let me give you a piece of advice my therapist gave me”.
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As reported by Daily Mail, the Hollywood legend then added, ”Put a rubber band around your wrist, and every time you feel like sticking a knife into the f*****, snap it hard”. “It snaps you out of it – it works,” remarks the cancer survivor. The ‘Klute’ actress also divulged that she received this advice during her split with her third husband Ted Turner in 2001.
Before getting married to CNN founder Turner, Fonda was previously married to ‘Barbarella’ director Roger Vadim from 1968 to 1973 and activist Tom Hayden from 1973 to 1990. She claimed she had given up dating after splitting with her previous companion, record producer Richard Perry, in 2017, and stated last month: "I'm about as happy as I've ever been," reports Entertainment Tonight.
‘The best way to fight depression is to keep moving’
This is, however, not the first time that Fonda has opened up about depression or coping with unwelcoming news. Earlier, in February, she said, “I come from a long line of really depressed people,” before adding, “and the best way to fight depression is to keep moving”. GQ reports that after trying to avoid exercising in her teenage years, Fonda found passion in physical activities quite late in her life saying, “It wasn’t until my late 30s, early 40s that I started to actually become active. Life before I was active wasn’t nearly as good as when I started to move.”
The National Women’s Hall of Famer also shared, “I always had a penchant for falling in love. Every time I found myself without a mate, I fell into a state of low-sizzling panic. I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown,” as reported by Oprah.com. That was when her third husband Turner first asked her out. However, she said that when she had her divorce with Turner, “something felt different”. After spending some alone time in Atlanta, she realized, "I don't need a man to feel whole. In my marriages, I'd lost parts of who I was because I was trying to mold myself into what I thought a man wanted me to be. But in that moment, I felt all those pieces flying back together”.
‘I don’t want to be in a relationship’
Even though the octogenarian turned into a love guru, she has no intention of getting into a relationship again. She said in an interview with Harper’s Bazaar in April 2021, “I don’t want to be in a relationship, a sexual relationship, again. I don’t have that desire”. However, that doesn’t stop her from fantasizing. “That I meet a professor or a researcher, somebody in that line who is really capable of loving, of cherishing a woman, so that I could test myself and see if I could show up. I think maybe now I could, but the problem is that, like a man, I would want a younger man,” says the Hollywood icon. She finally declared, “It’s a thing about skin. I would want a younger man, and I’m too vain”.
Fonda announced her diagnosis of on-Hodgkin lymphoma in September 2022 but has been declared in remission following her chemotherapy in December 2022. Reflecting on her remission, Fonda said, “I won,” reports GQ.