There are a lot of troubled, controllable people in Hollywood. Jane Fonda was molested as a child as was her mother who committed suicide by slitting her own throat with a razor blade while in a sanatorium, months after her husband actor Henry Fonda asked for a divorce.
Peter(Jane's brother) Fonda's
Easy Rider acid trip scene's off-script ad-libs make more sense when you know his family background. Start at 4:30
What an ill thing to wish(below) and even sicker said by a man in his late 70s at the time but thankfully, in death, Peter Fonda can no longer wish harm on children.