- Jane Fonda answered the question “What do you think happens when we die?” on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
- “If people love you,” she said. “Then you remain in their memory energetically.”
- The last question Colbert asked was, “Describe the rest of your life in five words” — and she cheated a bit with her answer.
At 83, Jane Fonda has had plenty of time to ponder life’s hardest questions, which is why she had a beautiful answer to “What do you think happens when we die?” — yep, things got pretty deep during her latest appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
At first, the Grace and Frankie star took a pause, and smiled. “I think that you remain energetically with the people that loved you, which is why it’s so important to be loved than to love,” she said tenderly. “If people love you, then you remain in their memory energetically.”
She continued: “You know, I feel my father around me quite often, energetically.”
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Throughout her life, Fonda has learned what it’s like to both be loved and to love, but after being in three marriages, she realized that the intimate type of love may not be for her. That’s what ultimately inspired her to divorce her third husband Ted Turner and set out for the single life she was destined to live.
“I realized that I’m not afraid of dying but I’m afraid of having regrets,” she told Harper’s Bazaar in March. “It wasn’t until I was finally single at 62 that I began to feel whole, feel that I was where I was supposed to be.”
Since then, she’s done her best to live intentionally for herself and the planet as a Green New Deal activist and administrator of Fire Drill Fridays in Washington D.C. “The more you can be intentional about how you’re living, the better,” she said. “You can’t make your life longer, but you can make it deeper … by being intentional.”
In The Late Show interview, the last question Colbert asked was, “Describe the rest of your life in five words.” She cheated a little, combining the words “at” and “all” into one, but her outlook remained powerful. She answered: “Not ‘tall what I expected.”
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