Published on Jan 22, 2018 
 
 TODAY’s Megyn Kelly responds to Jane Fonda’s recent issues with her questions about plastic surgery while appearing on Megyn Kelly TODAY. Kelly explains why she has no “regrets asking the question.” 
 
 
 
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 Megyn Kelly: I Have No Regrets About My Question To Jane Fonda | Megyn Kelly TODAY ||||| “To drink or not to drink?” That is one of the many questions that Jane Fonda poses in her new documentary. Lounging around, getting her hair done, the Oscar-winning actress starts to dish about her beverage of choice. “They only serve wine,” she laughs. “I don’t drink champagne. I don’t drink wine. I drink vodka. I’ll have to bribe somebody.” 
 
 “Jane Fonda in Five Acts,” which premieres on Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival, is an intimate portrait of a movie star and activist. Director Susan Lacy (“Spielberg,” “American Masters”) interviewed Fonda a dozen times. She planned trips with Fonda to revisit moments from her past, and conducted secondary interviews with her pal Robert Redford, her ex-husbands and her kids. 
 
 Fonda spoke to Variety about the movie, which airs on HBO later this year. 
 
 Why did you agree to do a documentary? 
 
 I had written a book already and so I was used to talking about my life. I knew Susan [Lacy] from “American Masters.” I didn’t realize that she was a director and I saw the documentary she did on David Geffen. It was so good. 
 
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 Were you nervous about visiting any of the places from your past? 
 
 Well, the more meaningful place we went to where I had never been was my mother’s grave in Ogdensburg, New York. And that was a very emotional experience for me. I had issues with my mother and it took me a long time to get over that and to kind of reconcile myself with my mother and come to love her and forgive her. She killed herself when I was 12. 
 
 What did it feel like to finally see her grave? 
 
 [She starts to tear up.] Sad, that she died so young without my ever really knowing her. Grateful, that I had come to a place where I could love her and forgive her. Complicated. 
 
 One of my favorite parts of the movie is when you visit your ex-husband Ted Turner’s ranch. 
 
 I go there from time to time. It was an escrow when I started dating him. He had another ranch, a 60,000 acre ranch. He said “Do you want to see a ranch I’m going to maybe buy that’s 180,000 acres?” And we drove through and he said ‘’Should I buy it?” And I said, “No.” It just didn’t seem right that someone would own that much property. Then I got to know him and I realized well he protects it. I built the house that we were in. And planted the trees. He sends me the apples from the apple tree. It’s a little weird to go back. He’s there with other women now and things have changed a little, but not much. 
 
 He says in the movie that he wishes he could still be with you. Were you surprised? 
 
 We are very, very close. It’s complicated. We talk about it all the time. He taught me a lot. 
 
 Did you base your media mogul character in “The Newsroom” on him? 
 
 No. He inspired the performance that I gave in “Monster-in-Law,” because 10 years with Ted, you know he’s so flamboyant and he has such a great sense of humor. And he’s not afraid of being over-the-top. What my decade with Ted brought to me for “The Newsroom” was feeling comfortable in that kind of environment. 
 
 What was it like watching your documentary? 
 
 It was really hard. And it will be really hard [at the premiere] when I see it again. I hope I don’t cry. It’s one thing to write about yourself. Susan didn’t shy away from talking about things that are very difficult for me on a lot different levels. And then your children are talking about you and it’s a kind of white-knuckle experience. 
 
 There’s a lot in the movie about your political evolution as an activist, starting with the Vietnam War. 
 
 I’m glad about that because I think it shows that people aren’t born politically brave. People aren’t necessarily born feminists. 
 
 What is your biggest fear about the Trump administration? 
 
 The most immediate fear is what’s happening to our planet because that’s not reversible and it’s very dire. Secondly, I fear that our democracy is being taken from us. However, the good part is, as Jerry Brown recently said, “He’s totally negative energy.” Except maybe when he’s with a porn star! Isn’t that terrible to be able to say that about your president? He’s total negative energy and he moves in the world, and it releases positive energy from other people. That’s why so many people are rising up and being active that never were before; running for office when they never considered doing it before. It’s not just because he set the bar so low. It’s because, “Help!” I’ve got to be a part of saving this country and everything we stand for. So there’s a good side to it. 
 
 Do you think he’ll be impeached? 
 
 I have no idea. Every day there’s some outrageous thing that’s happened. Then there’s discussion of the trauma and impeachment. We have to be careful not to let ourselves get distracted, because while we are paying attention to that, our country is being stolen behind our backs. 
 
 Do you think you’ll see a female president in your lifetime? 
 
 I intend to live long enough to do that. 
 
 Do you think Oprah should run for president? 
 
 I think she’s a very powerful persona. I think her values are totally, 100 percent fabulous. I don’t think she’s going to run. If she did, I would support her, because I think she would surround herself with the best people. 
 
 Earlier this week at the Sundance press conference, Robert Redford talked about how we’re at a tipping point as a result of the #MeToo movement. 
 
 Rob Redford said that? Yay! 
 
 Do you feel like what’s happening right now is creating real change in Hollywood? 
 
 Hollywood is the least of it. The Time’s Up movement is very different than the #MeToo movement. The Time’s Up movement is about taking action to create change. One of the wonderful things that I love about the Time’s Up movement is that they understand the importance of intersectionality, of reaching out to other sectors where women aren’t famous and aren’t white and are terribly vulnerable. They face terrible sexual harassment. Domestic workers, farmer workers, restaurant works, and so forth. Time’s Up is putting its arms around all those sectors. That’s why I think it’s a very profound movement that will be around for long, long time. I do think it’s a tipping point. We’re not going back. 
 
 When did you first become aware that you weren’t being paid as much as your male counterparts? 
 
 Last year. See, this is going to strike you as weird. But I never paid any attention. Well, of course Rob Redford’s going to be paid more money. I’m just me. He’s him. So I just assumed that that was the way it was and I took it for granted. It wasn’t until a lot of the younger people in my industry began to speak out about it and I began to pay attention. Now I’m old so it doesn’t matter that much. 
 
 Do you negotiate differently now? 
 
 I don’t negotiate anything. My agents negotiate for me. I think I goosed them a little more than I used to. 
 
 You bcame a meme after an interview with Megyn Kelly went viral. Would you ever go on her show again? 
 
 Sure. 
 
 So you weren’t upset that she asked you about plastic surgery? 
 
 No. It wasn’t like I was upset. I was stunned. It was so inappropriate. It showed that she’s not that good an interviewer. But if she comes around and learns her stuff, sure. ||||| Jane Fonda and Megyn Kelly appear to be gearing up for a war of words. 
 
 One day after Fonda told Variety she felt the NBC news anchor was “inappropriate” when she asked her in September about her cosmetic surgery, Kelly devoted a segment of her “Megyn Kelly Today’ to the simmering imbroglio. 
 
 “Look, I gave her the chance to empower other women, young and old, on a subject which she purports to know well and she rejected it. That’s okay. But I have no regrets about the question. Nor am I in the market for a lesson from Jane Fonda on what is and is not appropriate. After all, this is a woman whose name is synonymous with outrage,” said Kelly, speaking Monday during her program. “Look at her treatment of our military during the Vietnam war, many of our veterans still call her ‘Hanoi Jane’ thanks to her radio broadcasts which attempted to shame American troops. She posed on an anti-aircraft gun used to shoot down our pilots.” 
 
 Fonda seemed offended in September during an interview early in the program’s tenure, but told Variety she would consider returning to “Megyn Kelly Today.” “It wasn’t like I was upset. I was stunned. It was so inappropriate,” Fonda said about the question. “It showed that she’s not that good an interviewer. But if she comes around and learns her stuff, sure.” 
 
 During the segment, Kelly showed several pieces of video from other news programs in which Fonda has discussed her cosmetic surgery.
– Back in September, less than one week into Megyn Kelly's tenure as a Today host, she asked Jane Fonda a question about plastic surgery and got shut down. But the subject apparently isn't dead. Over the weekend, Fonda was asked by Variety if she'd ever be a guest on Kelly's show again. "Sure," said Fonda, but her response wasn't all positive. She says she was "stunned" by the question. "It was so inappropriate. It showed that she’s not that good an interviewer. But if she comes around and learns her stuff, sure." Kelly had a response to that: Variety reports that on Monday Kelly decided it was "time to address the 'poor me' routine" and dedicated one of her segments to the dust-up. She included clips of Fonda talking about the subject on other news shows. Then Kelly said: "Apparently, when she came here, however, again to promote her film about aging, I was supposed to discern that this subject was suddenly off limits. ... I have no regrets about that question. Nor am I in the market for a lesson from Jane Fonda on what is and is not appropriate. After all, this is a woman whose name is synonymous with outrage. Look at her treatment of our military during the Vietnam war; many of our veterans still call her 'Hanoi Jane' thanks to her radio broadcasts which attempted to shame American troops. She posed on an anti-aircraft gun used to shoot down our pilots. She called our POWs hypocrites and liars and referred to their torture as 'understandable.' Even she had to apologize years later for that gun picture. But not for the rest of it. By the way, she still says she is not proud of America. So, the moral indignation is a little much. She put her plastic surgery out there ... and honestly, she has no business lecturing anyone on what qualifies as offensive."