Hanoi Jane and Her French Follies

Oh, great. Now she apologizes...

Jane Fonda regrets her visit to a North Vietnamese gun site in 1972, the actress and fitness guru said in an interview with CBS television show "60 Minutes" to be aired Sunday.

The actress defended her trip to Vietnam in 1972, which won her the nickname "Hanoi Jane." But she said her visit to a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun site used to shoot down U.S. pilots was a "betrayal" of the U.S. military.

"The image of Jane Fonda, Barbarella, Henry Fonda's daughter ... sitting on an enemy aircraft gun was a betrayal," she said, calling the act, "The largest lapse of judgment that I can even imagine."

But she said she did not regret visiting Hanoi, or being photographed with American prisoners of war there.

"There are hundreds of American delegations that had met with the POWs," she said. "Both sides were using the POWs for propaganda. ... It's not something that I will apologize for."

Of course, if everyone was doing it, that makes it right. I'd describe Fonda in accurate terms, but I'm trying to remain civil.

Then again, this was funny...

Jane Fonda, who won an Oscar for her portrayal of a prostitute in the 1971 film "Klute," solicited call girls for three-way sex with her husband Roger Vadim, the actress revealed in a television interview.

...In the interview to be broadcast Sunday on the CBS network, the actress said she indulged Vadim's sexual proclivities, despite the personal pain it involved.

"One night Vadim brought another woman into my bed and I went along with it ... I'm competitive ... I was going to keep up with the Joneses," Fonda said.

"It was the 60s and whatever," she said, adding that she was largely motivated by the fear of losing her French director husband if she refused to go along with his three-in-a-bed romps.

...Fonda said the women who made up their 'menage a trois' were generally call girls that she herself would procure.

(Hat tip: LGF) So that explains her support of the VietCong -- she was pissed at the French!