{"id":188805,"date":"2025-10-04T04:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T04:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/188805\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T04:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T04:38:10","slug":"fran-drescher-discusses-close-bond-she-shares-with-ex-husband-and-why-they-still-consider-each-other-soulmates-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/188805\/","title":{"rendered":"Fran Drescher Discusses Close Bond She Shares With Ex-Husband and Why They Still Consider Each Other &#8216;Soulmates&#8217; (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEED TO KNOW<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fran Drescher was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Tuesday, Sept. 30<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At the ceremony, Jacobson praised Drescher for her accomplishments, both on and offscreen, and how she has changed many lives<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Drescher, 68, tells PEOPLE about collaborating with Jacobson over the years and their latest work together<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/fran-drescher-revamps-housekeepers-home-on-celebrity-iou-exclusive-8424906\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Fran Drescher;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Fran Drescher<\/a> had one of the most important people in her life by her side on her special day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ex-husband Peter Marc Jacobson served as the emcee at the actress&#8217; Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony on Sept. 30, which is also Drescher&#8217;s 68th birthday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Her frequent creative collaborator began, &#8220;When I met Fran, we were 15 years old in high school. We both remember that day we met. She was coming down the steps and I was going up the steps, and I thought to myself, &#8216;That is the most beautiful girl I have ever seen.&#8217; &#8220;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;And then she spoke,&#8221; he said, met with laughter from guests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:PEOPLE&#039;s free daily newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">PEOPLE&#8217;s free daily newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Amy Sussman\/Getty\u00a0 Peter Marc Jacobson speaks onstage during the ceremony honoring Fran Drescher with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on September 30, 2025\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/d211ca45ca5183a6ffa72f6dcaf32f9a.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Amy Sussman\/Getty <\/p>\n<p> Peter Marc Jacobson speaks onstage during the ceremony honoring Fran Drescher with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on September 30, 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Later in the ceremony, Jacobson took another chance to share his love for Fran, calling her &#8220;my soulmate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I love you from the bottom of my heart. There aren&#8217;t words for it, but I love you, I love you, I love you, and I only wish you the best. Nobody deserves this more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Nanny\u00a0alum and the TV writer were married for 21 years before they split in 1999. It wasn&#8217;t until two years after their divorce that Jacobson revealed to Drescher that he is gay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In the immediate aftermath, the two didn&#8217;t speak. That changed in 2000, when Drescher was diagnosed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/health\/fran-drescher-says-uterine-cancer-battle-deepened-me-as-a-person-i-am-better-for-it\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:with uterine cancer;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">with uterine cancer<\/a>. Drescher\u2019s diagnosis led to them rekindling their friendship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cYou realize how precious life is,\u201d Jacobson previously told PEOPLE. \u201cAny moment spent on hate is a moment wasted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The actress recently returned to work after stepping back from her role as SAG-AFTRA president, on projects she collaborates with Jacobson on, including something in\u00a0The Nanny\u00a0universe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;That&#8217;s one of the things that I need to really get into again now that I&#8217;m done with the presidency. And we&#8217;re going to do it differently, write it a different way, do it just ourselves. It&#8217;s just we&#8217;re starting again,&#8221; she shared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We&#8217;re starting at ground zero, and having fun doing it. I like when I have fun. Like I said to Peter, &#8216;We have to get a writer&#8217;s assistant.&#8217; He&#8217;s like, &#8216;Really? Why can&#8217;t we do it?&#8217; No, because then it&#8217;s not fun. I have fun writing it. I don&#8217;t have fun being the writer&#8217;s assistant for it too,&#8221; she laughs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Now that I forced him into realizing that, he&#8217;s so grateful because it&#8217;s so much better, so much better. We&#8217;ve got to make it fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Paul Morigi\/Getty Fran Drescher Drescher attends the GRAMMYs on the Hill Advocacy Day Awards Dinner at The Hamilton on April 08, 2025\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"332\" height=\"480\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/c70ade2771aaa1d53dead9916a836cc0.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Paul Morigi\/Getty<\/p>\n<p> Fran Drescher Drescher attends the GRAMMYs on the Hill Advocacy Day Awards Dinner at The Hamilton on April 08, 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Of her recent honor, as well as her upcoming \u00a0Fran Drescher Retrospective at the Hollywood Museum, Drescher is touched to look back at her history, but adds, &#8220;I&#8217;m not ego-driven by any of this stuff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Not being famous, none of it,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Most of the time, it just feels like work. A big precedent is work. I have to be on. I have to look good \u2014 the heels are hurting me, the bras digging, and all of that you don&#8217;t see. So, it makes it work a little bit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Drescher continued, &#8220;I know my strengths. I&#8217;m not egotistical about it. I just know that I have leadership qualities. I&#8217;ve been that way my whole life. I speak clearly and rationally. And I&#8217;m a systems analyst&#8217;s daughter, so I see systems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/fran-drescher-close-bond-ex-husband-exclusive-11820494\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:People;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">People<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEED TO KNOW Fran Drescher was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Tuesday, Sept.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,43422,94537,94536],"class_list":["post-188805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-fran-drescher","tag-hollywood-walk-of-fame","tag-peter-marc-jacobson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}