Fonda was on the program on Thursday with playwright Eve Ensler to discuss Ensler's award-winning work, The Vagina Monologues, in which women talk about their sexuality using frank language about their bodies and references to genitalia.
Vagina Monologues has spawned a movement called V-Day that aims to stop violence against women. It is celebrating its 10th anniversary this month.
On the Today Show Fonda explained how she first heard of Vagina Monologues.
"I was asked to do a monologue called Cunt, and I said, 'I don't think so. I've got enough problems,'" Fonda said. "Then I came to New York to see Eve and it changed my life."
The Today Show airs live on the US east coast, and the word was not muted or bleeped. NBC said for other US time zones, it silenced the word and covered the video with a still photo when Fonda uttered it.
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