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Fonda's Bad Word Shocks 'Today' Show Viewers

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By WALT BELCHER | The Tampa Tribune

Published: February 14, 2008

Jane Fonda stunned American viewers today by letting a highly taboo slang word slip out live on the "Today" show.

The 70-year-old actress was being interviewed about her appearance in a performance of the stage play the "Vagina Monologues" and said a word that is used frequently in the play.

Her intent was not to be offensive. She was recalling how she had never seen the play but was asked to perform one of the monologues that was titled after this word (a reference to a part of the female anatomy that is sometimes used as a derogatory reference to a woman).

Interviewer Meredith Vieira was shocked and later apologized to viewers. "Jane Fonda inadvertently said a word from the play that you don't say on television," Vieira said. "It was a slip, and she apologizes, and so do we. We would do nothing to offend the audience, so please accept that apology."

Fonda also said that after she saw the play, it changed her life. "I was theoretically a feminist, but I didn't always live it behind closed doors," she said, "When I saw the 'Vagina Monologues,' I'd never laughed or cried so hard in the theater. I think it was while I was laughing that something happened and I kind of slipped into my body, and I've really changed."

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