Hollywood screen icon and activist Jane Fonda slipped the word c**t Thursday while on live television on 'Today'. Fonda was invited with playwright Eve Ensler to commemorate the 10th anniversary of V-Day, an organization fighting violence against women that spun off from the latter's popular play "The Vagina Monologues."

"We were talking about The Vagina Monologues and Jane Fonda inadvertently said a word from the play that you don't say on television," Today co-host Meredith Vieira said after a newsbreak. "It was a slip and obviously she apologizes, and so do we. We would do nothing to offend the audience. So please accept that apology."

As expected, NBC omitted from its rebroadcasts in other time zones, as well as a clip of the segment on TODAYshow.com. What actually happened is that the crass word for the female anatomy was the title of one of the "monologues" and Jane Fonda. This is what she actually said:

"I hadn't seen the play. I live in Georgia OK," Fonda said. "I was asked to do a monologue called 'Cunt,' and I said, 'I don't think so, I've got enough problems. And then I came to New York to see Eve and it changed my life."

V-Day, a global nonprofit organization, was launched by "The Vagina Monologues" author Eve Ensler in 1998 and has thus raised more than $50 million for local anti-violence groups and rape crisis centers. The event will be marked by the biggest production of "The Vagina Monologues" ever, which will take place over two days at the New Orleans Arena and Louisiana Superdome on April 11-12.

"New Orleans is the vagina of America," Ensler said. "Think about it," Fonda said. "It's moist, it's a wetland, it's a place where people come for fun. And when things go south, forget about it."

Fonda, 70, won two Academy Awards for Best Actress: in 1971 for Klute and in 1978 for Coming Home, as well as three Golden Globes, for the two movies already mentioned and for 1978's Julia.