Fran Drescher says being “rarely alone without” her service dog helps her PTSD.
The former ‘The Nanny’ star “has managed to get on” living her life with the conditions since she and her friend were held and raped at gunpoint at her Los Angeles home in 1985.
According to Page Six, the 64-year-old actress said at the UN Women for Peace Association Luncheon to End Violence Against Women: “I am a survivor who has managed to get on with my life in spite of the veil of PTSD that I have learned to live with, and I’m rarely alone without… my service dog.”
Fran is “often surprised” at how much easily she finds being publicly with her “friend, companion and protector”, a rescue pup called Angel Grace, one in a long line of pooches loved by Fran.
She said: “I am often amazed by how much more relaxed I am walking down the streets, moving through airports or entering a hotel room because I am with my friend, companion and protector.”
She added that because of her canine helper she has “a full, rich life full of both pleasure and purpose.”
‘The Beautician and the Beast’ star calls herself “one of the lucky ones” as her attacker was sentenced to 150 years in prison and urged for more action “as a collective” against violence against women and girls.
Fran said: “We all, as a collective, must have zero tolerance for any and all misconduct from the most minor wolf whistles on the street to deny of education, who to marry or not marry at all, what to wear, legislating a woman’s body, work pay equality, to physical abuse, rape, human trafficking and enslavement.
“Every aspect of disrespecting a woman’s rights is an eventual justification towards violence.”
George Clooney’s Reaction To SAG-AFTRA Deal Made Fran Drescher ‘So Happy’
Now that the SAG-AFTRA strike is over, stars are celebrating.
Union leaders reached a tentative deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers on Wednesday, ending a 118-day work stoppage.
After months of back and forth, SAG-AFTRA’s committee secured a contract that guarantees higher minimum salaries, increases in streaming residuals and protections around the use of artificial intelligence.
The deal is so strong that some celebrities could barely believe it, according to union president Fran Drescher.
Drescher called the contract “historic” while appearing on “Extra” on Thursday, where she told host Billy Bush the entire package was worth well over a billion dollars, and well worth the wait.
Fran Drescher said George Clooney was floored by SAG-AFTRA’s new deal with the studios when he learned the actors’ strike was over this week.
“It was moving all the way through,” the star of “The Nanny” explained. “We had reached a threshold where we crossed the billion-dollar mark and ended at a $1.01 billion, which is quite historic in terms of the size of the contract in this industry.”
Passing the billion dollar mark seemed impossible to A-lister George Clooney, who Drescher says she spoke with not long after news broke that the strike was ending.
“George Clooney said, ‘I would have bet my house and lost that you couldn’t get the deal that you got, that you wouldn’t have gotten past a billion dollars.’ And that just made me so happy,” she told Bush.
While he wasn’t part of the contract negotiations, Clooney seemed eager to help broker a deal when talks appeared to stall out in October.
He and about a dozen A-listers proposed raising membership dues for the SAG’s highest-earners to bridge the gap between the AMPTP’s offer and the cost of union health benefits.
“A lot of the top earners want to be part of the solution,” Clooney told Deadline at the time.
