A year after her separation from Mr Ted Turner, Jane Fonda says she and the CNN founder are friends, but she has radically changed her life, giving up her famed exercise regimen to write a book about her days as a Vietnam War era peace activist.
In an interview with Barbara Walters for ABC's 20/20 broadcast yesterday, Ms Fonda, says she has largely given up exercise because it interferes with her writing. And she insists she has no intention of resuming her film career.
"I feel like, when I exercise, that it keeps things in," she told Ms Walters. "It's a very weird thing that's going on in my head."
Ms Fonda (63) said she was writing a book about her days as an anti-war activist, a controversial chapter of her life that included a North Vietnam visit for which she was derisively named Hanoi Jane.
"I look forward to being able to describe why I did what I did, and how I feel about it, and the things that I am proud of, and the things that I am, um - that I am ashamed of . . . I think that when I finally tell my own story, in detail, that it will be a healing process," she said.
She added: "It just kills me that I did things that hurt . . . those men (Vietnam War veterans)."