Jane Fonda caused quite a stir when she said the word "cunt" on the Today Show during an interview yesterday - but the fitness video favorite can't understand why her little outburst caused such uproar. Fonda, 70, was being interviewed about V Day, a star-studded event to end violence against women that stemmed from the popularity of the Vagina Monologues. She let slip the offensive word when she recalled first getting involved in the Vagina Monologues. "It wasn't that I wasn't a big fan, but I hadn't seen the play - I live in Georgia," she said about the delay in getting involved.
"Then I was asked to do a monologue called 'c**t', and I said, 'I don't think so. I've got enough problems'", she said.
"It was pretty embarrassing," one viewer said yesterday. "But I guess you're asking for trouble if you decide to cover The Vagina Monologues stage show on family TV."
Jane responded to the controversy at V-Day's 10th Anniversary Party in NYC last night, saying: "The first time that I knew about The Vagina Monologues, I was asked to perform that particular monologue in Atlanta, and so I just happened to say the name of it."
"I didn't even think," the two-time Academy Award-winning American actress added. "I'm sorry if I offended anybody I think it's pretty silly."
Meredith Vieira - the host of the Today Show, the most watched breakfast show in the States - later issued an apology. "We were talking about The Vagina Monologues and Jane Fonda inadvertently said a word from the play that you don't say on television," she said.
"It was a slip and obviously she apologizes, and so do we. We would do nothing to offend the audience. So please accept that apology."
By Owen Williams, Feb 15 2008 © Copyright 2008 - Showbiz Spy
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