'If I keep on like this I’m gonna die'

"I was bulimic anorexic and so, to suddenly I’m becoming a starlet and there’s so much emphasis on how you look and it was a trigger — constant, constant trigger for me," she said. "In my 20s, I was starting to be a movie actor. I suffered from bulimia very, very bad. I led a secret life. I was very, very unhappy. I assumed I wouldn’t live past 30."

 Fonda explained that her eating disorder felt "innocent in the beginning," as she started to binge food and purge. "Why can’t I have this ice cream and cake and then I’ll just throw it up?" she recalled thinking. "What you don’t realize is it becomes a terrible addiction that takes over your life."

 Aside from harming "the way you look," the award-winning actress and activist shared that the disease also made it "impossible to have an authentic relationship" because of its secretive nature.

 "Your day becomes organized around getting food and then eating it, which requires that you’re by yourself and that no one knows what you’re doing," she explained. "It’s a very lonely thing and you’re addicted. I mean if you put any food in you, you want to get rid of it."Fonda mentioned that addressing her anxiety and going on medication also helped to stop the cycle of binging and purging. And although the subject is spoken about more openly now, the actress said she's "scared" for young people whose mental health is now being impacted with the prevalence of social media.

 "I think it makes it much worse and it’s really hard," she said. "I don’t know what the cure is."