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'Hanoi Jane' memory still haunts Jane Fonda, QVC appearance falls through

By April MacIntyre Jul 17, 2011, 16:29 GMT

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The stigma of Academy Award winning actress Jane Fonda's anti-Vietnam war protestations have allegedly caused shopping network QVC to canceled her TV appearance.

Jane Fonda has publicly apologized for her 1972 visit to a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun site.

The moment, captured on film, earned her the nickname “Hanoi Jane.”

She later went on record with TV reporter Lesley Stahl in a “60 Minutes” interview and said that her actions were a “betrayal” of American forces and of the “country that gave me privilege.”

“The image of Jane Fonda, ‘Barbarella,’ Henry Fonda’s daughter ... sitting on an enemy aircraft gun was a betrayal ... the largest lapse of judgment that I can even imagine,” Fonda told Stahl.

Fonda also told Stahl she did not regret meeting with American POWs in North Vietnam or making broadcasts on Radio Hanoi.

“Our government was lying to us and men were dying because of it, and I felt I had to do anything that I could to expose the lies and help end the war,” she said.

Jane Fonda's past has been brought up once again in her response to TV network QVC "caving in to extremist pressure" in canceling her scheduled appearance.

Fonda blogged on TheWrap.com, about the alleged snub by QVC canceling her new book ("Prime Time") plug time.

QVC, Fonda says, caved to an alleged flood of angry calls regarding her anti-war activism of the 1960s and 1970s, and canceled her appearance.

"I am, to say the least, deeply disappointed that QVC caved to this kind of insane pressure by some well funded and organized political extremist groups," Fonda wrote.