United Kingdom, March 6 -- Jane Fonda saved her grandson from a bear.

The 87-year-old actress was living "out in the wild" in New Mexico and looking after her daughter Vanessa Vadim's son Malcolm, now 25, when she found the creature looming over him in his crib so took swift action to scare the animal away.

The story emerged when Jane appeared on Netflix's podcast 'Skip Intro' with her son Troy O'Donovan Garity and the 51-year-old actor was asked to share something people didn't know about his famous mom.

Troy - whose dad is Jane's late ex-husband Tom Hayden - told host Krista Smith: "She 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. And when s...