LOS ANGELES, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Jane Fonda spoke at a brunch celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Rape Treatment Center when she revealed that her mother was a victim of sexual abuse.
Fonda said she was going through her mother's medical records while writing a memoir when she found out Frances Ford Seymour was sexually abused when she was eight years old. Seymour committed suicide at the age of 42 when Fonda was 12. Her 9 to 5 co-star Lily Tomlin introduced the veteran actress.