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Jane Fonda: I Saved My Baby Grandson From a Wild Bear

The actor said she had “just learned what to do if you’re close to a bear” before the encounter.

Jane Fonda once scared a wild bear away from her grandson’s crib, she revealed on Netflix’s Skip Intro podcast. Appearing with her son Troy O’Donovan Garity, who told most of the story, Fonda said she’d only “just learned” what to do when you encounter a bear. “She was living in New Mexico, out in the wild, looking after her grandson,” at the time, Garity said. Fonda has two grandchildren, a boy and girl, from her eldest child Vanessa Vadim. “She heard something, so she left the bedroom in the middle of the night to go see what the sound was,” he continued, “And when she came back in, the screen door was dismantled and there was a bear in the bedroom, sniffing over the crib.” That’s when Fonda demonstrated how she got the bear to back off, with a loud “Rawr!” She then said she got “very big” and “opened my bathrobe.” The move was so effective at scaring the bear that it “urinated on the rug,” Fonda added, grimacing. “True story!!!!” Fonda posted on Instagram along with the podcast clip.