The award winning actress, best known for her role in the tv show 'Gracie and Frankie', paid tribute to her late ex-husband on Instagram.
Turner passed away at the age of 87, no cause of death has been revealed but his website states that he died "after a long battle with Lewy body dementia".
Turner pioneered the 24 hour news culture. He created CNN in 1980 which quickly became a central part of the media landscape.
Fonda wrote on Instagram that she "loved him with all my heart."
"MY IMMEDIATE THOUGHTS ABOUT TED He swept into my life, a gloriously handsome, deeply romantic, swashbuckling pirate and I’ve never been the same. He needed me. No one had ever let me know they needed me, and this wasn’t your average human being that needed me, this was the creator of CNN, and Turner Classic Movies, who had won the America’s Cup as the world’s greatest sailor. He had a big life, a brilliant mind and a soaring sense of humor," Fonda wrote.
"He could also take care of me. That was new as well. To be needed and cared for simultaneously is transformative. Ted Turner helped me believe in myself. He gave me confidence. I think I did the same for him, but that’s what women are raised to do. Men like Ted aren’t supposed to express need and vulnerability. That was Ted’s greatest strength, I believe. He also taught me more than any other person or school classes, mostly about nature and wildlife, hunting and fishing (hunters and fishermen who follow the law are the best environmentalists), but also about business and strategy," she continued.
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Concluding the lengthy tribute, she wrote: "Five children survive him, five talented, complex kids who I had the privilege of becoming stepmother to. I had four stepmothers growing up and I know how important stepmothers can be, so we all did our best to build an extended, rag tag family, and I love them to this day. If it was complicated to be married to him, think how complicated it was being his child. And they are all doing fine. Rest in Peace, dearest Ted. You are loved and you will be remembered."
US President Donald Trump paid tribute to Turner, he said he was "one of the greats of broadcast history, and a friend of mine". President Trump has been outspoken about his disapproval of CNN but said on his Truth Social platform that Turner was there for him "whenever he needed him" and was always "willing to fight for a good cause!"
