Jane Fonda Thought She Was 'Going to Die' at 30 From 'Drugs and Loneliness'

Jane Fonda never thought she’d live this long. “I didn’t think I’d live past 30,” Fonda, 87, shared during the Wednesday, November 19, episode of “The Look,” a special series from Michelle Obama’s “IMO” podcast. “I was sure I was going to die.” Fonda explained that her “youth was not especially happy,” recalling her mother Frances Ford Seymour’s death when she was 12 years old. (Her father is the late famed actor, Henry Fonda.) “I’m not addictive, but I thought I was going to die from drugs and loneliness,” Jane explained. “So the fact that I’m almost 88 is astonishing to me.” She added, “I wo