While Jane Fonda had long accepted that her father, Henry Fonda, was not a communicative person, she still tried to connect with him toward the end of his life. She made sure that he knew how much she appreciated him, even though they were never close.
“All I could do was my end, to tell him at the end, ‘I’m sorry that there were times when I made you unhappy. I’m sorry that I wasn’t always a great daughter. I totally forgive you for not always being a great father,'” she shared with Andy Cohen’s show on SiriusXM. “‘I know that you did the best you could. I promise you that your wife Shirley will remain in the family forever.'” She even said that it was the first time she had seen him cry behind the cameras. “I know that he took in what I said to him. He cried and that was it,” she added. “That’s an example of luck.”
In her interview with The Guardian in 2020, Jane said that she was also grateful to get the opportunity to star in a movie with Henry, as he passed shortly after filming. “I’m just the luckiest person in the world. The fact that I was able to do that movie with him right before he died, because he died five months later,” she recalled. And when they both got nominated for an Oscar, but only Henry won, Jane was happy to receive it on his behalf. It was “the happiest moment of my life,” she said.
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