Charlize Theron's heartbreaking account of the night her mother killed her father
The actress dares to reveal the details about how her mother shot her in self-defense
Few know the family drama that the mythical Charlize Theron lived when she was just a teenager. At age 15, her mother shot her father to death in self-defense after he tried to shoot both of them. "My father was so drunk that he could not even walk when he entered the house with a gun," begins recounting the Hollywood actress in a recent interview with "National Public Radio."
Theron assures that she is not ashamed of this episode, but she has never spoken so openly on the subject. As she confesses now, both she and her mother were leaning against the door of her room when he appeared with the weapon, to prevent her from entering: «He took a step back and fired at door three times. None of the bullets hit us, which is a miracle. " Gerda, her mother, then decided to shoot him to protect both of them. "But it was in self-defense, my mother put an end to the threat," she clarifies.
"I'm not ashamed to talk about it, because I think the more we talk about these things, the more we realize that we are not alone," he explains, recalling that his father had a serious drinking problem: "He was a very sick man. Also, she confesses that she "only knew him one way, drunk." A heartbreaking story that she wanted to share to give visibility to the serious consequences that addictions can have for people and their environment.
In fact, the interpreter is still affected today not only by what happened that night, but also by the previous episodes that both she and her mother experienced: “It was a quite desperate situation. Our family was caught up in it. And you feel the daily unpredictability of living with an addict and carry it embedded in your body for the rest of your life, more than the event I suffered that night.
