Jane Fonda is known for her youthful appearance and glowing health, yet in a recent admission during a podcast with Michelle Obama on Thursday, November 20, the Coming Home star made a heartbreaking confession about her troubled past. "I didn’t think I’d live past 30," she admitted. "I was sure I was going to die."

"My mother died when I was 12," she said referencing her mother Frances Ford Seymour who died by suicide in 1950. "My youth was not especially happy, and … I’m not addictive, but I thought I was going to die from drugs and loneliness," Jane added.

© Getty Images for Homeboy Industr Jane Fonda speaks onstage during the Homeboy Industries Lo Máximo Awards & Fundraising Gala. March 2025

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