Jane Fonda admits being raped, sexually abused as a girl

New York March 3 (IANS) Actress Jane Fonda revealed that she was raped and sexually abused as a girl.

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 the two-time Oscar winner said was quoted as saying.

I always thought it was my fault. That I didn t do or say the right thing she added.

Fonda s remarks came in a conversation with Brie Larson who last year won the Oscar for Room the story of a woman who is held hostage for years by a man who sexually abuses her.

The 79-year-old Fonda a prominent activist for women s rights for years in 2001 founded the Centre for Adolescent Reproductive Health which helps prevent teen pregnancy.

She is also an active member of the global V-Day movement which works to halt violence against women.

I know young girls who ve been raped and didn t even know it was rape. They think It must have been because I said no the wrong way she said.

One of the great things the women s movement has done is to make us realize that (rape and abuse is) not our fault. We were violated and it s not right Fonda added.

In 2014 Fonda revealed that her mother Frances Ford Seymour was also sexually abused as a child and committed suicide at age 42 when the actress was 12.

Fonda while she was preparing her memoirs discovered that situation when she reviewed her mother s medical history.

The minute that I read that everything fell into place Fonda said. I knew why the promiscuity the endless plastic surgery the guilt the inability to love or be intimate and I was able to forgive her and forgive myself.

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