Charlize Theron's dramatic account of the day her mom killed her dad
The actress hid the truth for several years. Her father was an alcoholic and threatened her and her mother. This Monday, she spoke about it again.
Charlize Theron's father was murdered by the actress's mother in an act of her own defense one night when he came to her house drunk and shot his wife and her daughter, when she was 15 years old . The actress herself stated that she does not feel ashamed, but until now she had not given details on the subject.
In an interview he gave this Monday the 16th for the American network National Public Radio, the Hollywood star spoke openly about what happened on the night of June 21, 1991, in Benoni, a city located in the northeast of South Africa, where Theron was born. and lived all his childhood.
"My father was so drunk that he did not understand how he was able to walk and he entered the house with a gun," said the actress. "My mother (Gerda) and I were in a room, leaning against the door that he was trying to push open. That's how we were when he had to take a step back and fired three shots through the door. None of the bullets hit us, which is a miracle," he explained.
Gerda knew that she had to do something to protect Charlize and she did not doubt her: she reached for a revolver and shot her husband, who collapsed and died on the spot. "She ended the threat, she was in self-defense," said the interpreter of Fast and Furious.
The actress described her father as a very sick man. "She only knew him in one way: alcoholic," she said during the chat, adding that she is not ashamed to talk about it.
"It was a desperate situation and our family was caught up in it. The unpredictability of daily living with an addict is something that stays with you for the rest of your life, rather than the concrete event that happened one night." But she acknowledges that that moment impacted her forever. "This kind of violence that happens within the family is something that I share with a lot of people."
Gerda knew that she had to do something to protect Charlize and she did not doubt her: she reached for a revolver and shot her husband, who collapsed and died on the spot. "She ended the threat, she was in self-defense," said the interpreter of Fast and Furious.
The actress described her father as a very sick man. "I only knew him in one way: alcoholic," she said during the chat, adding that she is not ashamed to talk about it.
"It was a desperate situation and our family was caught up in it. The unpredictability of daily living with an addict is something that stays with you for the rest of your life, rather than the concrete event that happened one night." But she recognizes that that moment impacted her forever. "This kind of violence that happens within the family is something that I share with a lot of people."
Despite the fact that her mother was acquitted of all charges by the South African justice system, the naturalness with which she spoke about the subject was not always the same.
"I just pretended that it hadn't happened. I didn't tell anyone. When someone asked me, I told them that my father had died in a car accident. Who wants to tell that story? Nobody wants to tell that story," he said. Howard Stern show in 2017 and added that the thing that affected him most in life was not the tragic death of his dad, but living with an addict.
"All of that scared us and of course I wish that what happened that night hadn't happened. But unfortunately that's what happens when you don't get to the root of these kinds of problems," the actress told National Public Radio.
