The following article contains references to drug and alcohol misuse, child abuse, and sexual assault.
Sadly, much the same can be said for her children.
She was distant at times, often leaving her children without a mother figure to lean on.
Vanessa, Troy, and Mary each encountered adversity to varying degrees.
They fell in love quickly, marrying in 1965 and welcoming daughter Vanessa Vadim a few years later.
However,the truth about Fonda’s first marriagewas far from what you’d read in a fairy tale.
… My life would be very different if I’d noticed red flags."
The two went on to share custody of Vanessa.
Mary wouldn’t move in with Fonda for another 15 years, becoming the actor’s informally adopted daughter.
Previously, Fonda’s visit to Vietnam sparked controversy.
“They thought it would be better if I grew up with my own name.”
While the family of six were without much privilege at the time, there were still good times.
However, everything changed when her mom injured herself and could no longer work.
She joined a drama club in college but ended up quitting.
“Any child would have trouble growing up in the shadow of such a strong image.
… She said, ‘I’ll never be as good as mom,'” he remarked.
Detailing the unwelcome advances in her Oprah.com article, Williams wrote, “I guarded my innocence.
She described a teacher who forced her to touch him inappropriately and her friend’s father who groped her.
Sadly, Williams’ situation didn’t improve.
When she was just 14 years old, a theater director twice her age raped her.
The perpetrator coerced her to come back repeatedly with threats of violence, and the assaults occurred several times.
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The camp was started by Jane Fonda and her then-husband Tom Hayden.
“Until I attended Laurel Springs Children’s Camp …
I had not known I was poor,” Williams wrote in her 2013 Oprah.com piece.
In an attempt to fit in, she decided she would tell her fellow campers very little about herself.
Fonda offered Williams a place to stay if she could keep her grades up.
she told The Times in 2013.
But Fonda did, and when Williams turned 16, she joined the Hollywood starlet’s family.
This couldn’t have been easy on Garity, who witnessed his mother going through the heartbreak.
Fonda struggled to eat, speak, or even move during this time.
“It was all the cliches,” the “Coming Home” star expressed.
“My heart weighed 20 pounds.”
which would have resulted in up to six months in jail.
Fortunately for the family, the charges against her were ultimately dropped a couple weeks later.
This unfortunately resulted inJane Fonda having a strained relationship with her kids.
“I was too wrapped up in becoming an activist,” she admittedto Harper’s Bazaar.
“I just didn’t know how to do it,” she explained.
“I’m trying to show up now,” Fonda added.
Of course, her movie star mother was in attendance and even shared her sweet sentiments on herpersonal blog.
In an October 2016Facebookpost, Garity announced the news to his followers that his father had died.
