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 experienced when she was just a teenager. At age 15, her mother shot her father to death in self-defense after he tried to shoot them both. "My father was so drunk that he couldn't even walk when he came into the house with a gun," the Hollywood actress begins in a recent interview with "National Public Radio."
Theron assures her that she does not feel ashamed of this episode, but she has never spoken so openly about the subject. As she confesses now, both she and her mother were leaning on the door of her room when he appeared with the gun, to prevent her from entering: «He took a step back and fired at the door three times. times. None of the bullets hit us, which is a miracle." Gerda, her mother, then decided to shoot her to protect them both. "But it was in self-defense, my mother ended 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're not alone," he explains, while recalling that his father had a serious drinking problem: "He was a very sick man." Plus, 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 pretty desperate situation. Our family was caught up in it. And the everyday unpredictability of living with an addict you feel and carry embedded in your body for the rest of your life, more than the event I suffered that night.
