Fran Drescher is very self-confident and secure in her life choices. At 67, she’s living her best big life and making no apologies for it.
What Fran Drescher Said
Fran Drescher spoke to Page Six at the screening of The Friend and said, “I have a little rotation.” It’s not the first time she’s talked about having a friend with benefits. She’s shared how she still loves her ex-husband, Peter Mark Jacobson, though they divorced in 1999, and he’s come out as a gay man. Because of the close friendship and connection she still has with him, she’s said that she doesn’t have it in her to give more to another relationship.
Her Relationships
Fran Drescher met her now ex-husband when she was just 15 years old. They married at 21 in 1978, and Jacobson was a major part of her career. He wrote, directed, and produced The Nanny.’ He was quoted as saying, “We’ve made a career out of her voice… I write it, and she says it.” A traumatic home invasion changed him and, consequently, their relationship.
The marriage came to an end when Drescher decided they needed it to end so both of them could find themselves “outside of the marriage.” Though they didn’t speak for a year, they came back together as friends after she had to deal with uterine cancer in 2000. They’re best friends again and enjoy spending time together.
After a brief marriage to Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, Fran Drescher was single again, and she’s happy that way. In 2020, she talked about having a friend with benefits that she spent time with. People quoted her as saying, “It’s delightful and delicious, but I’ve got a big life.” The pandemic forced the actress and her friend apart. Like many relationships, theirs faded during that time.
Regarding the possibility of being without any friends with benefits, Y! Entertainment quoted her as saying, “I figure if it’s meant to be it’ll happen, and I feel very blessed in that I feel complete without it. So I would want someone to compliment [me] but not try and complicate me or complete me. And I certainly don’t need complications.”
What She’s Doing
The actress and president of SAG AFTRA is well known for her role as Fran Fine in The Nanny. She’s been working on adapting The Nanny as a Broadway musical, though that was put on hold because of events like the actors’ strike, the death of her father in 2024, and the Palisades fires. She’s living in Beverly Hills and New York because her home and the neighborhood it’s in aren’t livable.
Whatever she does next is sure to be worthy of attention. We’re looking forward to being there for her.
