Fonda's new book tells of Bulimia battle
Jane Fonda recalls the moment she discovered her husband, CNN founder Ted Turner, was cheating on her one month into their marriage in a new tell-all autobiography.
The Hollywood actress discusses how her secret conversion to Christianity coincided with the revelation that Turner had never stopped cheating on her and confesses to a decades-long battle with bulimia in the memoir, My Life So Far.
A month into their marriage, she realised Turner had had a “nooner” with another woman and bashed him over the head with a mobile phone.
They reconciled after counselling but Fonda, 67, writes that he spent their last year together looking for her replacement.
The book has been described as candid yet discreet.
It describes in detail the rocky romance with Turner including how he begged her for another chance on bended knee.
Fonda also details the three-way sexual encounters she arranged for her first husband, French director Roger Vadim.
The two-time Academy Award-winner admits that her notorious 1972 trip to North Vietnam and the photo of her sitting on a Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun, was a “two-minute lapse of sanity".
The incident, which earned her the nickname Hanoi Jane, was a mistake, she says, for which she continues to pay a heavy price.
On her bulimia, Fonda recounts a 30-year-battle which began as a teenager at school.
“For me the disease lasted, in one form or another, from sophomore year in boarding school through two marriages and two children, until I was in my early 40s,” she writes.
“My husbands never knew, nor did my children or any of my friends and colleagues.”
Fonda won Oscars for her portrayal of a prostitute in the 1971 film Klute and in 1978 for Coming Home. She achieved cult status for her role in the 1968 film Barbarella, directed by Vadim and triggered an aerobic exercise craze in the 1980s with her work-out videos and book.
