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Jane Fonda went through a difficult time while filming the first season of Grace & Frankie.

The 81-year-old actress opened up in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published on Wednesday (May 29).

“It took me a long time to figure out [my relationship to this character]. I had a nervous breakdown during the first season, and I discovered it’s because the very first episode our husbands tell us that they are going to leave us after 40 years and marry each other and that triggered abandonment,” she explained.

“It was a big trigger, and I didn’t realize that a character in a comedy could actually trigger something very profound. And so I love her, and I learned to invite her into the room.”

She also opened up about her similarities and differences to her character on the hit Netflix series.

“After the first season, I couldn’t have written a backstory for her; and then I wrote 30 pages without ever stopping. But I don’t really want to have to be anything like her. We have too much in common as it is.”

For more from Jane, head to HollywoodReporter.com.

Get ready for even more Grace & Frankie!

The popular Netflix series has been renewed for a sixth season to air in 2020 by the streaming service announced on Tuesday (January 15).

The show, which co-stars Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda, was renewed just a few days after its Season 5 premiere. Pre-production for Season 6 is already underway.

In the show, Grace (Fonda) and Frankie (Tomlin) two women whose lives are turned upside down when their husbands reveal they are gay and leave them for each other. Both sparring partners and partners-in-crime, Grace and Frankie form an unlikely and unbreakable bond and face their uncertain futures head-on, hand-in-hand. Together with their ex-husbands and children, they discover the true definition of “family,” with laughter, tears and plenty of mood enhancers along the way.

The trailer for the upcoming fifth season of Grace & Frankie is here!

The Netflix series unveiled the new teaser on Tuesday (January 8) ahead of the Season 5 premiere on the streaming service on January 18.

PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Lily Tomlin

RuPaul also guest stars in the new season!

Jane Fonda (“Grace”) and Lily Tomlin (“Frankie”) star as two women whose lives are turned upside down when their husbands reveal they are gay and leave them for each other. Both sparring partners and partners-in-crime, Grace and Frankie form an unlikely and unbreakable bond and face their uncertain futures head-on, hand-in-hand. Together with their ex-husbands and children, they discover the true definition of “family,” with laughter, tears and plenty of mood enhancers along the way.

Watch below!

The cast of Grace & Frankie are stepping out to promote their show!

Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Sam Waterston, Martin Sheen, Marta Kauffman and Howard J. Morris were among the panelists in attendance at the Grace & Frankie FYC Event held at Netfli FYSee at Raleigh Studios on Saturday (June 2) in Los Angeles.

PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Lily Tomlin

Netflix announced back in February that the hit show will be back for a fifth season, with RuPaul set to star as Benjamin Le Day, a “formidable and quick-witted adversary who faces off with Grace and Frankie.”

FYI: Jane is wearing a SemSem top, Paule Ka trousers, and Sarah Flint shoes.

30+ pictures from the event inside…

Grace & Frankie is back, and you can watch the trailer for the upcoming fourth season right here!

PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Jane Fonda

Here’s a plot summary: Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin star as two women whose lives are turned upside down when their husbands reveal they are gay and leave them for each other. Both sparring partners and partners-in-crime, Grace and Frankie form an unlikely and unbreakable bond and face their uncertain futures head-on, hand-in-hand. Together with their ex-husbands and children, they discover the true definition of “family,” with laughter, tears and plenty of mood enhancers along the way.

The hit Netflix show returns to the streaming service on January 19, 2018. Watch below!