Fran Drescher Is Content Being Single; Reveals She Has No Desire To Date

Fran Drescher is happily single and has no plans on getting back to the dating game anytime soon.

"I'm in a relationship with myself, and it's going quite well. It's always good to take those passages and really focus on what you're feeling," the 64-year-old actress told Page Six in an exclusive interview at the premiere of "The Survivor" on Monday night.

"The Nanny" alum said she has been so busy since she became the president of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) in 2021. She noted, "That is quite consuming on top of a big career and Cancer Schmancer. I don't have a burning desire to date right now."

The actress has been single following her split from engineer Shiva Ayyadurai in 2016. In 2020, she told Page Six that she did not get lonely because had a "friend with benefits."

"You know I'm kind of dating myself and it's going quite well. I'm not dating," she said at the time. "I have my gay ex-husband who I love and he fulfills a lot of needs. I have someone on the side who is a friend with benefits."

"Of course we have sex and it's delightful and it keeps me going," she added. "He comes over, we hang out and we do the hot tub, and I make us some food, and we lay in bed, and maybe we'll watch tennis together, whatever it is, or a movie. We talk. We have good conversations."

Drescher now claims the casual relationship has ended.

"You know, with COVID, he spent time on some tropical island where he has a house, and he thought he'd be safer there," she explained. "I had a close friend who was ill, and it just distracted me. They say distance makes the heart grow fonder, but not in this case. This was a thing of convenience, and when it became inconvenient, it didn't interest me anymore."

Drescher attended the premiere of HBO's "The Survivor" in New York with co-stars Ben Foster and Danny DeVito.

"The Survivor" is based on the true story of Harry Haft, a boxer who was forced to fight with fellow prisoners at Auschwitz concentration camp to amuse Nazi soldiers.