Speaking to fellow actor Brie Larson in Net-a-Porter magazine, Fonda said: “I’ve been raped, I’ve been sexually abused as a child and I’ve been fired because I wouldn’t sleep with my boss.
When researching her memoirs in 2014, Fonda found that her mother, Frances Ford Seymour, had been sexually abused aged eight.
Jane Fonda has revealed that she has been the victim of a a history of sexual abuse, beginning when she was a child.
Fonda also told Larson that she felt people underestimate the “extent to which a patriarchy takes a toll on females”.