Never underestimate a grandma’s love.
Jane Fonda revealed she once saved her then-infant grandson, Malcolm, from a wild bear who broke into her New Mexico home in the middle of the night.
In a Feb. 28 appearance on Netflix’s “Skip Intro” podcast, her son, actor Troy O’Donavan Garity, was asked to share something fans of his mother may not already know of the actress.
In response, Garity, 57, told host Krista Smith that she once “pushed a bear out of her bedroom.”
“She heard something so she left the bedroom in the middle of the night to go see what the sound was,” Troy said, noting that the “Grace and Frankie” star, 87, was looking after her grandson — now 25 years old — at the time.
“And when she came back in, the screen door was dismantled and there was a bear in the bedroom, sniffing over the crib.”
Smith then asked Fonda how she responded to the wild animal in her home, which prompted Fonda to give a loud roar in the microphone and throw her hands in the air in an effort to appear larger.
The actress shared her quick-witted response to the bear was thanks to her recent training as she “had just learned what to do if you’re close to a bear.”
“And that was it,” she noted. “And get very big; I opened my bathrobe.”
Fonda’s move worked, pushing the bear from the room. But he didn’t leave without giving the Oscar winner with a parting gift as he “urinated on the rug,” Fonda said.
“And then [it] walked back to the door and sat down and I did, I pushed it out, yeah,” she confirmed.
Fonda has three children: Troy; Vanessa Vadim, 56, whom she shares with late ex-husband Roger Vadim; and daughter Mary Luana Williams, 57. She welcomed her son with late ex-husband Tom Hayden.
She has two grandchildren, Malcolm and Viva Vadim, 21, who are the son and daughter of Vanessa.
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