Fran Drescher is happily single.
Speaking to Closer Weekly, “The Nanny” star explained: “Covid has limited [dating], so I’m putting it on the back burner.”
“I like my little bubble of people who I know live mindfully,” the 63-year-old continued in an interview published Monday. “With strangers, you really don’t know that. I’m also in no rush to start another relationship because I’ve never been in a relationship as satisfying as I am now. I’m taking advantage of this opportunity to enjoy life without any pressure or stress.”
“The Nanny,” the film that made Drescher famous, explores how a cosmetics saleswoman, fired from her job and abandoned by her boyfriend, becomes a nanny for the three children of an English widow. wealthy living in New York City. And as time passed, the two fell in love with each other. The show lasted six seasons, airing from 1993 to 1999.
“I’m really happy and very connected to myself,” Drescher said. “I always say I’m in a relationship with myself and it’s going quite well. In fact, for the first time I feel very peaceful being alone with myself. I practice Buddhist philosophy and I call myself Bu-Jew.”
These days, Drescher is busy developing a Broadway musical version of “The Nanny.” However, Drescher emphasized that she and Jacobson will “try everything the universe gives us to make it as perfect as possible.”
What about her positive outlook on life? Drescher wouldn’t have it any other way.
“No one leaves this planet unscathed,” she said. “But what we do with it, how we overcome it, and what we become as a result is what makes the difference… Always count your blessings! I think it’s hard , especially for women, when it comes to setting their own needs.” Firstly.”
“You know, I started being strong for my career and being strong for other people,” Drescher said. “And it took me my whole life to become strong, to put myself in the equation of my life, to make my needs more important. So now, when I feel doubt myself or being rejected, I would say to myself, ‘I love you, Fran. I know how special you are.’ It’s Fran and Fran until the end of time. The rest are just players in the story.”
Back in 2019, Drescher told Fox News that she and Jacobson were closer than ever.
“He’s openly gay so he’s officially my gay ex-husband,” she said at the time. “We met when we were 15 years old. We created ‘The Nanny’. It became my baby. We are excellent writing and producing partners. And now we are friends close friends. My parents still consider him a son.”
According to People magazine, Jacobson, now 63, confessed to Drescher that he was gay two years after their 21-year marriage ended in 1999, but he has since revealed that he may be bisexual. after a few years of living together.
Drescher told the magazine that Jacobson’s denial of his true gender made him “angry and controlling,” causing her to leave him at the height of “The Nanny.”
“Honestly, he didn’t want the marriage to end,” she explained. “I need it to end. I need to find myself outside of the marriage and he needs to find himself outside of the marriage. He’s been mad at me for a while.”
However, a shocking diagnosis reunites the couple. While Drescher was wrapping up the final season of her widely successful sitcom in 1999, she secretly tried to figure out what was wrong with her. It wasn’t until 2000 that Drescher discovered she had uterine cancer.
“When I got cancer, one of the happy things was that as soon as he heard the news, he burst into tears and all the anger went away,” Drescher recalls. “All that was left was love. And from that moment on, we began to rebuild our friendship.”
Drescher has been cancer-free since 2000, and she is president of the Schmancer Cancer Movement, an organization dedicated to raising awareness about the importance of early detection and prevention.
In 2011, Drescher returned to television with the film “Happily Divorced,” based on her marriage to Jacobson.
Jacobson and Drescher recreated the Sherman Oaks, California, cottage they once called home for the series. At the time, she described remembering the “good old days” as “bittersweet”.
The series ended in 2013 but the love and admiration for the duo is still there.
“We’re family,” Dresher said. “That’s it. And we love each other. And everyone has the right to live
