Charlize Theron's Traumatic Night with Her Alcoholic Father

0:00It's April 19th, entertainment and celebrity news. Today starts now, AI powered and spotlight ready. Charlize Theron just opened up in a New York Times interview about that traumatic night back in 1991 when her mother shot and killed. Her father and self-defense right in their South African home, Theron was only 15 at the time, and her dead, Charles, flew into a drunken rage after a minor family spat firing shots through the doors at her. And her mom, Gerta. Gerta grabbed her own gun, ended up killing Charles and wounding his brother too, but authorities ruled it straight up self-defense with no charges. Filed. The whole thing kicked off simple enough after they got locked out of the house. Those steel doors were standard back then amid all the violence in, South Africa. They headed to the uncle's place where Charles was drinking, and Theron dashed inside for the bathroom without greeting the elders first, which rubbed. Her dad rung in that cultural respect code down there.

1:01Therein says she used to think she and her mom were the only ones dealing with that kind of nightmare, but now she sees how verbal abuse from her. Alcoholic dad got brushed off in a society where heavy drinking was everywhere. Guys crawling drunk on Fridays and Saturdays, even a bar bill right in, their house. Details get wild, barricaded in her bedroom, bullets flying through the door but missing them miraculously, her dad heading for the safe for more guns. When Gerta took action, one ricochet shot even hit the brother in the hand after bouncing seven times. Therein marbles at her mom's grit, sending her straight to school the next morning like life had to keep moving, highlighting how women's trauma often. Gets ignored even today.