Whereas talking to Parade concerning the incident in an interview revealed Friday, the 49-year-old comic mentioned all of it went down when she attended a celebration at Jane Fonda‘s home in 2017.

Handler mentioned the legendary actress took her apart and instructed her that she was behaving poorly and requested her to cease. The Pricey Chelsea podcast host mentioned that she was so embarrassed she needed to excuse herself.

“I went to the lavatory mirror at her home and checked out myself, and I used to be like, ‘Okay, you might have two selections in how you are going to deal with this,” Handler instructed Parade. “You would be defensive, and that simply means she’s proper. Or you’ll be able to take it in and understand that she didn’t have to take a seat down and take the time to inform you this.”

She continued, “She may have simply averted me for the remainder of our lives and by no means frolicked with me once more and simply been like, ‘Okay, Chelsea’s badly behaved, I do not need something to do along with her.’”

“However she set an instance for me that day. That was an act of affection.”

Handler admitted that with age has come the knowledge, and she or he’s realized to test herself and never get so labored up over issues.

“I do know to take away myself from a scenario if I am not going to be my finest,” Handler mentioned. “I do not lose my s–t like I used to after I was youthful. It is not a giant deal if one thing would not work out. It is not a giant deal if the man I am courting breaks up with me; it actually is not. I am a tree now. I am form of unshakeable.”

Handler, who turns 50 subsequent month, mentioned her new lease on life got here after years of remedy — with the humorous lady taking the magazine that she began remedy just some months earlier than the Fonda incident after struggling a panic assault on the set of her short-lived Netflix present Chelsea.

“My confidence and my bravado and my powerful exterior that labored for me so nicely and for thus lengthy within the years of Chelsea These days — it is like fuel that you simply run out of,” Handler defined. “That anger and that drive, that bought me to be actually profitable.”

“However there comes a time in your life the place no matter works for you stops working for you, and hastily you might have to try what you have not examined, which is often your internal life and what occurred to you as a baby,” she continued.

She realized she had in reality repressed some issues rising up, together with the grief she felt round her brother Chet dying when she was 9, one thing she refused to acknowledge or discuss till she was 40.

The revelation additionally got here on the identical time Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, which did not sit nicely with the die-hard Democrat.

“That coincided with my new discuss present on Netflix. It was an ideal storm of instability, and I had by no means felt unstable earlier than in my life, in that method,” Handler recalled.

All that remedy gave Handler new materials for her rise up units and the handful of books she’s launched over the previous few years.

As for the way she plans to have fun her milestone birthday and all of the work she’s executed to get up to now in her life, Handler mentioned she is going to as soon as once more hit the slopes close to her trip dwelling in Whistler, Canada, and certain strip right down to her birthday go well with, as followers have seen her over the previous few years.

“It should contain extra than simply me; it will contain lots of people and hopefully numerous pets,” she teased. “Everybody retains asking me [how I feel about turning 50], and I really feel like they need me to say one thing like [sounding slightly bummed] ‘I am unable to imagine I am 50.”

She added, “[But] that is superior. My life is strictly what I hoped it might be — it is greater than I hoped it might be. I had no thought what the chances have been or that I may dwell a life like this and really feel so free.”