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Jane Fonda reveals her mother committed suicide after years of sexual abuse as she vows to support rape victims 'for the rest of her life'
Actress Jane Fonda, 76, revealed to an audience of activists and philanthropists on Sunday that her mother had been sexually abused and eventually committed suicide.
Fonda made the personal revelation as she hosted an event celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Rape Treatment Center, which provides comprehensive free treatment for sexual assault victims.
The annual fundraising brunch was held at billionaire Ron Burkle's Greenacres estate in Beverly Hills.
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Personal: Jane Fonda opened up about her mother's suicide at the Rape Foundation Brunch at Greenacres in Beverly Hills on Sunday
Fonda said she discovered while writing her memoirs that her mother had been sexually abused as a girl.
Fonda said she reviewed her mother's medical records and discovered she had been sexually abused when she was 8 years old. Frances Ford Seymour committed suicide when Fonda was 12.
'The minute that I read that, everything fell into place,' Fonda said from a small stage set up in Burkle's sprawling backyard. 'I knew why the promiscuity, the endless plastic surgery, the guilt, the inability to love or be intimate, and I was a
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Frances Ford Seymour
Frances Ford Seymour (April 14, 1908 – April 14, 1950) was a Canadian-born American socialite, the second wife of actor Henry Fonda, and the mother of actors Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda.
Early life
Born in Brockville, Ontario, Canada, she was a daughter of Eugene Ford Seymour and Sophie Mildred (née Bower; July 13, 1886 – April 15, 1974). Her father, a lawyer, was descended from Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset who was brother to Henry VIII's third wife, Jane Seymour. Among her first cousins was Mary Benjamin Rogers, the first wife of Standard Oil millionaire Henry Huttleston Rogers Jr.
Marriages
On January 10, 1931, she married George Tuttle Brokaw, a millionaire lawyer and sportsman, whose previous marriage, to Clare Boothe Luce, had ended in divorce. They had one child, Frances de Villers Brokaw (October 10, 1931–March 10, 2008, known as "Pan"), who later married Francesco Corrias, and became a painter. By this marriage Frances Ford Brokaw also had a stepdaughter, Ann Clare Brokaw (1924–1944).
A year after George Tuttle Brokaw died, she married actor Henry Fonda on September 16, 1936, at Christ Church, New York City. She had met Fonda at Denham Studios in England on the set of the film Wings of the Morning. The couple had two children, actr
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The Important Self-Truth Jane Thespian Learned Stick up Her Mother's Suicide
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