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Ultra-liberal actress Jane Fonda spoke out this week to reveal why her father, legendary Hollywood star Henry Fonda, once punched her in the face.
Jane's father slapped her
During an appearance on former “Scandal” actress Kerry Washington's radio show “Street You Grew Up On,” Jane recalled when her father remarried his second wife, Susan Blanchard, a Jewish socialite and the daughter of musical theater director and composer Oscar Hammerstein II, after committing suicide. From her mother. When he married Susan, Henry moved to Greenwich Village in New York City, across the country from where Jane and her younger brother Peter grew up in Los Angeles.
“She (Susan) had African-American friends, and for the first time I met Jeffrey Holder, who I realize now — I always thought of him as a dancer — but one of them had just given me a book … about his artwork,” said Jane, 86. A great artist.”
When Kerry asked her if she had been exposed to black people in Los Angeles, Jen replied: “No, not at all. Not exposed to people of color at all.
She continued, “I didn't know about racism until I went to Greenwich.” “That was the first time I heard the N-word, and I repeated the N-word once, and [it was] The only time in his life my father hit me in the face. He said: “Never say that word again.”
Jane went on to say that when Henry was a child, his father forced him to watch a black man be hanged and his body dragged around the town square in Omaha, Nebraska.
“This had a huge impact on my father,” she explained, adding that it inspired him to make films such as Taurus Sagittarius Incident (1943), Wrong man (1956), and 12 angry men (1957).
“He cared about justice and he hated racism, and you know, with that slap you taught me to pay attention,” Jane concluded.
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Henry was a Republican
Although Jane had been known for decades for her radical liberal activism that earned her the nickname Hanoi Jane during the Vietnam War, her father was actually a registered Republican in his younger days, something that shocked his two children when they discovered.
“Several years ago, a friend of mine sent me a wallet that had belonged to my father,” her late brother Peter told AARP in 2013. Inside was a cashless check from my maternal grandmother and her first voter’s ID card and she had the card on it.” republican!”.
He added, laughing: “My sister would not and will not believe that.” “She had the worst time with that! I thought I'd wait until she dug herself into a hole, and then drop it on her, because I had the gun in my hand.”
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Jane criticizes Henry
Last year, Jane spoke out to criticize her father, who died in 1982, for the way he raised her.
“He never brought joy to the house,” Jane said of Henry, according to the Daily Mail. “I never felt like he got happiness…and it never manifested itself when he came home, so it wasn't like, 'Oh my God, I want what he got.'”
Jane said this while talking about why she decided to become an actress.
“I'm not one of those who grew up wanting to perform, wanting to be an actor. I didn't think I had talent,” she explained. “I wish someone would have told me: 'Don't give up, keep going, things will get better,' because I didn't see any future. I didn't think I would live past the age of thirty. And that's why… I don't take anything for granted.
One can't help but think that Henry would be absolutely horrified to see what his daughter had become. What do you think of Jane's latest statements? Let us know in the comments section.
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