Veteran screen goddess Jane Fonda's late husband Roger Vadim bullied her into seducing women to join them in orgies, the Internet Media Database reports.

The 67-year-old says in her autobiography "My Life So Far" due in April that Vadim, who directed her in "Barbarella", forced her to phone escort companies and chat up girls in bars so they could take part in his "cruel and misogynistic" sex sessions.

"It seems shocking that I did that, but I convinced myself that it was fine, even though it was killing my heart," she writes.

Fonda, whose six-year marriage to Vadim ended in 1973, has never previously admitted to the group sex sessions she was forced to participate in.