Jane Fonda reveals she’s being treated for cancer
OSCAR-winning actress Jane Fonda has revealed she is being treated for cancer.
The Hollywood icon took to social media to say she has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and is undergoing a six-month course of chemotherapy.
She said she felt fortunate to have a treatable form of the disease.
The 84-year-old wrote: ‘So, my dear friends, I have something personal I want to share.
‘I’ve been diagnosed with nonHodgkin’s Lymphoma and have started chemo treatments.
‘This is a very treatable cancer. 80 per cent of people survive, so I feel very lucky.
‘I’m also lucky because I have health insurance and access to the best doctors and treatments. I realise, and it’s painful, that I am privileged in this.
‘Almost every family in America has had to deal with cancer at one time or another and far too many don’t have access to the quality health care I am receiving and this is not right.’
Miss Fonda – a long-term campaigner for Left-wing causes who has been arrested several times at protests – insisted she would continue her activism.
She said of her illness: ‘One thing it’s shown me already is the importance of community. Of growing and deepening one’s community so that we are not alone.’
Miss Fonda won the Best Actress Oscar twice during the 1970s – for Klute and Coming Home. She most recently starred in the Netflix comedy Grace And Frankie alongside lifelong friend Lily Tomlin.
The star has previously beaten breast and skin cancer, and attended the 2016 Golden Globe awards in a ruffled dress designed to disguise her breast surgery.
Miss Fonda has been married and divorced three times – to French film director Roger Vadim, political activist Tom Hayden and CNN founder Ted Turner.
She was also romantically linked to Mick Jagger and Klute co-star Donald Sutherland among others.