{"id":142012,"date":"2025-11-16T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/142012\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T00:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T00:00:07","slug":"jane-fonda-admits-to-tough-year-after-deaths-of-several-famous-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/142012\/","title":{"rendered":"Jane Fonda admits to &#8216;tough year&#8217; after deaths of several famous friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jane Fonda is mourning a &#8220;tough year&#8221; following the losses of her friends Gene Hackman, Robert Redford and Diane Keaton.<\/p>\n<p>The 87-year-old star says that the sadness at the passings of the trio &#8211; in February, September and October respectively &#8211; has been hard for her to bear.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been a tough year,\u201d she told <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/jane-fonda-reflects-tough-year-losing-robert-redford-diane-keaton-exclusive-11849779#:~:text=Jane%20Fonda%20is%20reflecting%20on,on%20Thursday%2C%20Nov.%2013.\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/people.com\/jane-fonda-reflects-tough-year-losing-robert-redford-diane-keaton-exclusive-11849779#:~:text=Jane%20Fonda%20is%20reflecting%20on,on%20Thursday%2C%20Nov.%2013.\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">People<\/a> at the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power&#8217;s EmPower Party.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about Hackman, she said, &#8220;You know, there&#8217;s him and Redford. He came down here to support GCAPP. And we screened \u2018Barefoot in the Park.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cBarbarella\u201d star continued, &#8220;And Diane Keaton &#8211; I just finished working with her. Boy, I was shocked. Really shocked. You get to be old and everybody is dying around you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fonda and Keaton worked together on 2023\u2019s \u201cBook Club: The Next Chapter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After Redford passed in September, Fonda issued an emotional statement describing how she couldn&#8217;t &#8220;stop crying&#8221; after learning of her \u201cBarefoot in the Park\u201d co-star&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It hit me hard this morning when I read that Bob was gone. I can&#8217;t stop crying. He meant a lot to me and was a beautiful person in every way. He stood for an America we have to keep fighting for,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>When her \u201cBook Club\u201d co-star Keaton passed last month, she posted a tribute on Instagram, calling her a &#8220;spark of life and light.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s hard to believeor acceptthat Diane has passed,\u201d she wrote. &#8220;She was always a spark of life and light, constantly giggling at her own foibles, being limitlessly creativein her acting, her wardrobe, her books, her friends, her homes, her library, her world view. Unique is what she was. And, though she didn\u2019t know it or wouldn\u2019t admit it, man she was a fine actress [sic]!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jane Fonda is mourning a &#8220;tough year&#8221; following the losses of her friends Gene Hackman, Robert Redford and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[81572,627,321,19256,49352,81573,93,81571,61,60,21744,21211],"class_list":{"0":"post-142012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-bereavement","9":"tag-book-club","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-celebrity-deaths","12":"tag-diane-keaton","13":"tag-emotional-tribute","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-gene-hackman","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-jane-fonda","19":"tag-robert-redford"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}