Ted Turner: Feeling Alone On The Range

Filed under Ted Turner, Interviews
November 9, 2008 10:08 pm

Media Mogul cum land baron Ted Turner loves his land - he’s the single biggest landowner in the U.S. with two million acres - but hates to spend the night alone at one of his sprawling properties.

Turner tells this to 60 Minutes correspondent Morley Safer in a profile of him that also includes a chat with his ex-wife Jane Fonda to be broadcast this Sunday, Nov. 9, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

“I don’t like being alone. These are big places to be alone,” he says at his Snowcrest Ranch in Montana. “I’ll tell you, come out here and spend the night by yourself some time…the coyote’s out there howling.” He then does a dead-on imitation of a coyote howl. “It’s pretty scary,’ he tells Safer

Safer also spoke with one of the great loves of Turner’s life, ex-wife Jane Fonda, who still has feelings for him years after their divorce. Told he hates to be alone, Fonda replies, “He’s aware that [the need for constant companionship] makes it hard for the person who’s, you know, trying to love him.” One of the reasons the marriage didn’t work was Fonda’s need to spend more time away from him to be with her daughter.

watch it at CBS here:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/07/60minutes/main4581890.shtml

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