Jane Fonda announces that she has cancer at the age of 84: “I am receiving chemotherapy”

the protagonist of Barbarella He has communicated sad news to all his fans this Friday. At 84 years old, Jane Fonda has revealed that a battle has begun against the cancer: “My dear friends, I have something personal that I want to share. I was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and have started chemotherapy treatment.”.

The actress, very positive, has tried to reassure all her friends and acquaintances: “This is a very treatable cancer. 80% of people survive, so I feel very lucky.”, He has written. In addition, she recognizes that she is a “privileged” person for being able to pay for health insurance and have access to the best doctors and treatments to deal with this disease. “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’m getting and this is not right.”

Fonda has explained that he has been undergoing chemotherapy for six months and that he is responding very well to the drugs: “I will not allow the disease to interfere with my activism for climate change and the rest of my activities.”

The actress, who overcame breast cancer two decades ago, shows off her strength in the face of adversity: “Cancer is a teacher and I am paying attention to the lessons it has for me. One thing it has already shown me is the importance of the community.

An icon of the big screen

Born in New York, daughter of actors, Jane Fonda has had a life full of lights and shadows. She told it in her documentary Jane Fonda in Five Actswhere he reviewed everything from his mother’s suicide to the bulimia and anorexia he suffered from when he was very young or breast cancer in adulthood.

She wasn’t very lucky in love either. She was married up to three times. She first with the French director Roger Vadim (1965-1973), with whom she had a daughter named Vanessa; later with Tom Hayden (1973-1990), with whom she had her second child, Troy, and adopted a third, Mary Luana; and finally with the media magnate Ted Turner (1991-2001), in the photo. She is now single and very happy: “I don’t want to be in a relationship again, a sexual relationship. I don’t have that desire, I do have fantasies, to meet a professor or researcher who is capable of appreciating a woman.”

Environmental activist since the 70s, he can boast of a successful and prolific film career: Barefoot in the park or Dance, dance, damn are some of the classics. Since 2015 she has starred in the comedy Grace & Frankie with Lily Tomlin.