Chelsea Handler reveals the A-list actress who once reprimanded her at a party

Chelsea Handler shared a past memory that caused her to take a moment to reassess.

The Chelsea Lately host, 49, was at a party at Jane Fonda’s house in 2017 when the legendary actress pulled her aside.

The Grace and Frankie star, 87, told Handler she was behaving badly and asked her to stop.

Handler was humiliated and excused himself to find a bathroom.

“I went to the bathroom mirror in her house and looked at myself, and I thought, ‘Okay, you have two choices about how you’re going to handle this,’” Handler said. Parade.

“You could be defensive, and that just means she’s right. Or you can absorb it and realize she didn’t have to take the time to tell you this,” she recalled.

The Chelsea Lately host, 49, was at a party at Jane Fonda’s house in 2017 when the legendary actress pulled her aside; Handler and Fonda in the photo

“She could have just avoided me for the rest of our lives and never dealt with me again and just said, ‘Okay, Chelsea is behaving badly, I don’t want anything to do with her.’

‘But she was an example to me that day. That was an act of love.”

Handler turns 50 on February 25 and with age has come the wisdom to control oneself and not worry so much about things.

“I know I have to remove myself from a situation if I don’t want to be my best,” she said.

“I don’t lose my shit like I used to when I was younger. It’s okay if something doesn’t work out. It’s okay if the guy I’m dating breaks up with me; it really isn’t,” she said. ‘I am a tree now. I’m quite staunch.’

All of Chelsea’s new-found Zen came at the cost of years of therapy. In fact, she entered therapy—somewhat reluctantly—just a few months before the Fonda incident.

She had a panic attack on the set of her short-lived Netflix show Chelsea and realized she had to take care of some things.

“My confidence, my bravado and my badass good looks that worked so well for me for so long during the Chelsea Lately years – it’s like gasoline that you run out of,” Handler explained.

The Grace and Frankie star, 87, told Handler she was behaving badly and asked her to stop. Handler was humiliated and excused himself to find a bathroom

“I went to the bathroom mirror in her house and looked at myself, and I thought, ‘Okay, you have two choices about how you’re going to handle this,’” Handler told Parade. “You could be defensive, and that just means she’s right. Or you can absorb it and realize she didn’t have to take the time to tell you this,” she recalled; Handler seen in 2024

“That anger and that drive is what really made me successful,” she continued.

‘But there comes a point in your life when everything that works for you no longer works for you, and suddenly you have to look at what you haven’t explored yet, which is usually your inner life and what has happened to you. a child.’

She realized that she had suppressed feelings about her brother Chet’s death when she was nine, something she refused to acknowledge or talk about until she was forty.

It also coincided with the election of Donald Trump, something that irritated the liberal heart of the die-hard Democrat.

‘That coincided with my new talk show on Netflix. It was a perfect storm of instability, and I had never felt unstable in that way before in my life,” Handler said.

And like any good comedian, all that therapy has provided Chelsea with a lot of new material for her stand-up sets and her book Life Will Be the Death of Me.

As she prepares to celebrate turning 50, Chelsea will once again hit the slopes near her vacation home in Whistler, Canada, in some state of undress with at least one of her dogs in tow.

She’s been doing this every year for several years, but she hinted that 50 will be a little different.

“She could have just avoided me for the rest of our lives and never dealt with me again and said, ‘Okay, Chelsea is behaving badly, I don’t want anything to do with her.’ But she was an example to me that day. That was an act of love,” Handler said; Fonda seen in 2024

Handler turns 50 on February 25 and with age has come the wisdom to control oneself and not worry so much about things; Handler seen in 2024

“There’s going to be more involved than just me; There will be a lot of people involved, and hopefully a lot of pets too,” she teased.

‘Everyone keeps asking me [how I feel about turning 50]and I feel like they want me to say something like that [sounding slightly bummed] “I can’t believe I’m 50,” Handler said.

‘[But] this is great. My life is exactly what I hoped it would be; it’s more than I hoped for.

‘I had no idea what the possibilities were and that I could live such a life and feel so free.’