“I am very sad today. Cried all morning. But luckily, I can think back on so many joyful, laughter-filled moments when his practical jokes would crack me up. I feel so lucky to have made one of his first big movies with him, Barefoot in the Park (I fell madly in love with him on that one) and his last (the aforementioned Souls at Night),” she wrote.

Her words turned painfully honest when she admitted one regret:

“I was wanting to go see him these last few months to make sure we were all right between us but I didn’t act on it soon enough. Lesson learned. When people are our age, late 80s, don’t wait.”

And in a final message to Redford, she wrote: “Thank you, dearest Bob, for all the pleasure you brought over the years. RIP.”

This wasn’t the first time Fonda had openly admitted how much Redford meant to her. Looking back on a publicity photo from Barefoot in the Park, she once gushed, “He is so handsome and just such a wonderful human being. Every movie I made with him, I developed a crush on him.”