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Charlize Theron Recalls Dad’s ‘Verbal Abuse’ as ‘Full-Blown Drunk’ Before Mom Sent Her to Boarding School
Theron said the shooting ended years of abuse and that her mother was ruled not to face charges after acting in self-defense.
- In a recent interview with The New York Times, actress Charlize Theron recounted the 1991 fatal shooting of her father, Charles Theron, by her mother, Gerda Jacoba Aletta Martiz, which officials ruled self-defense.
- Theron recalled her father, who was intoxicated, "broke into the house" and fired shots through a steel door, making it "very clear that he was going to kill us" before her mother intervened.
- Following the incident, her mother insisted they "move on" by the next morning, a coping mechanism Theron noted was "not necessarily the healthiest thing" but allowed them to survive emotionally.
- Initially hiding the truth behind a "car accident" story to avoid pity, Theron now feels "not ashamed to talk about it" despite the "shame" she felt over community gossip about her father's alcoholism.
- Sharing her story aims to ensure others "not feel alone," as Theron emphasized that "gender-based violence is so in your face" globally, reflecting on how these early experiences shaped her resilience.
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Charlize Theron returned to school day after her mum killed dad in self-defence
Charlize Theron was just 15 when her mother fatally shot her father at their home in South Africa (Picture: Mike Coppola/Getty Images) Actress Charlize Theron has recalled the night her mother killed her father in self-defence – and how she went back to school the next day. Now aged 50, Theron was just 15 when the incident happened on June 21, 1991, after her father, Charles, an alcoholic, attacked her mother, Gerda, and threatened the pair. How…
Charlize Theron spoke more openly than ever in an interview about the night when her mother shot her father in self-defense.Charlize Theron (50) shared details from her dramatic youth in an interview.The main features of the story are well-known: in 1991, when the later Oscar winner was 15 years old, her mother Gerda shot the alcoholic, violent father Charles in self-defense. In the conversation with the "New York Times", the native South Africa…
Charlize Theron has talked about one of the toughest episodes of her life. In an interview published this Saturday in The New York Times magazine, the actress has remembered the night her mother shot and killed her father in self-defense when she was a teenager. The actress has explained that this happened in 1991, in South Africa, when she was 15 years old. Her father, Charles Theron, came home in a state of drunkenness and triggered a situatio…
In an interview with the »New York Times«, Charlize Theron told the story of her violent childhood, including the night her mother shot her father.
One of the best known details of Hollywood actress Charlize Theron's private life is that when she was just a 15-year-old teenager in her native South Africa, her mother killed her father, an alcoholic abuser, in self-defense. Now, the former model remembered how it was that night in an interview with The New York Times."I was 15 years old.My mother and I had gone to the movies, and my father had taken the key to the steel door at the entrance,"…
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