Jane Fonda Addresses ‘Hanoi Jane’ Photo: ‘I Will Go To My Grave Regretting That’

On Wednesday night, actress Jane Fonda was asked about her controversial activism during the Vietnam War.

In opposition to the Vietnam War, Fonda visited the capital of Hanoi and during her 1972 visit, she was photographed standing on top of an anti-aircraft gun used to kill American soldiers, causing decades of outrage from her critics, nicknaming the actress “Hanoi Jane.”

During her appearance on The Late Show, Stephen Colbert took a moment to address that moment in her life.

“Have what we’ve learned about that war in the decades since changed your attitude toward that war or changed your attitude about what you did at the time?” Colbert asked.

“No, I have- from the moment that I did the bad thing I did, which was I sat on an anti-aircraft gun in north Vietnam,” Ford responded. “I wasn’t even thinking what I was doing and photographs were taken and that image went out and the image makes it look like I was against our soldiers, which was never the case. I had been working with soldiers prior to that and for years after that. It’s why I made the movie Coming Home. But that image is there and I will go to my grave regretting that. I knew right away that that was wrong.”

She later told The Late Show host that she doesn’t regret going to Vietnam since she learned a lot while being there.

Earlier this year, NBC’s Megyn Kelly invoked the “Hanoi Jane” photo in her feud with Fonda after the award-winning actress criticized the daytime talk show host following her appearance.

Watch the clip above, via CBS.