Jane Fonda: ‘Biggest regret’ is not being the kind of mother I wanted to be

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“Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?” “I have great, great children — talented, smart — and I just didn’t know how to do it.”Fonda, who has three children: daughter Vanessa Vadim, 54, with ex-husband Roger Vadim, son Troy O’Donovan Garity, 49, and adopted daughter Mary Luana Williams, 55, both of whom she shared with her late ex-husband Tom Hayden.Fonda says she finally saw what good parenting is supposed to look like thanks to her organization, the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention.“I know what it’s supposed to be now, I didn’t know then,” she said. “So I’m trying to show up now.” Elsewhere in the interview, Fonda, who revealed her cancer diagnosis in September, said she’s not afraid of death — a sentiment she has expressed in the past.“What I’m really scared of is getting to the end of life with a lot of regrets when there’s no time to do anything about it.

And it’s one reason that I try, I’m trying to get it all done before I come to the end,” Fonda told Wallace. The actress last year told fans she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and is undergoing chemotherapy treatments.Revealing her diagnosis in an Instagram post in September, Fonda wrote, “So, my dear friends, I have something personal I want to share.