Charlize Theron recently opened up about her traumatic experiences of past. Talking about her abusive and alcoholic father, the actress revealed how her mother, Gerda killed her father, Charles in self-defense. She also revealed that she’s not ashamed of talking about her mother killing her father in self defense.
“My mom and I were in my bedroom leaning against the door because he was trying to push through the door. So both of us kept leaning to prevent him from pushing through. He took a step back and just shot through the door three times,” said Theron who was 15 at the time when her father, under the influence of alcohol, attacked her and Gerda.
“None of those bullets ever hit us, which is just a miracle. But in self-defense, she ended the threat,” she added.
“The day-to-day unpredictability of living with an addict is the thing that you sit with and have kind of embedded in your body for the rest of your life, more than just this one event of what happened one night,” the actress recalled her life spent in Johannesburg, South Africa with her parents.
“I’m not ashamed to talk about it, because I do think that the more we talk about these things, the more we realise we are not alone in any of it. I think, for me, it’s just always been that this story really is about growing up with addicts and what that does to a person,” said the Oscar winner.
However, her past trauma did not impact her personality and today she’s not shy to talk about her experiences. She believes, she shares it with many people.
