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charlize theron Looking back on her difficult upbringing in South Africa.
“I remember seeing drunk people when I was little, and it scared me,” Theron, 50, said. new york times In a profile released on Saturday, April 17. “Like, people were drunk and crawling on the floor. It became very consistent, every Friday, Saturday, maybe even every Wednesday. My dad built a big bar in the house.”
Theron further claimed that her father, charlesis “a complete drunkard.”
“He disappears sometimes and we don’t know where he is, but he usually comes back in a very serious state,” the actress claimed. “It would get messy and loud, and my mom wasn’t a wallflower. She didn’t just sit back and take it. She made it known that she wasn’t happy with his lifestyle. So, it really was Resulting in a lot of abuse.“
Charlize Theron loves her children more than anything. The actress adopted her daughters Jackson and August in 2012 and 2015 respectively, and she’s been gushing about her role as a mother ever since. “I do know that choosing to be a mother in my 30s would be really great for me,” Theron told W (…)
She continued, “Personally, the worst thing that happened was they would be freezing to each other. There would be a big fight, and then they wouldn’t speak for three weeks. I didn’t have a brother or sister, and that house became silent.”
Theron’s mother, Gerda, shot her husband In 1991 in self-defense. Theron was 15 years old at the time.
while talking with the timesTheron clarified that her father was not physically violent towards her.
“He was scary. He didn’t hit me, he didn’t throw me against the wall, but he would do things like drink and drive,” she said. “There was a lot of abuse and threatening language and it became normal.”
According to Theron, her mother even enrolled her in boarding school to “get[Theron]out of the house.”
“She was very aware of the impact this had on me,” Theron told the outlet. “All the memories are there, not that I don’t try to think about it, but in this linear way, and when you talk about it in that way, it almost becomes clearer. Because people tend to just isolate it and want to talk about one thing. That helps explain that these things build up, they build up, and it takes years for things to go wrong like they did in my home.”
Theron eventually left South Africa at the age of 16 to pursue a modeling career in Europe.
“I’m ready. I know how to take care of myself. It’s something my mom instilled in me, it’s something my lifestyle instilled in me, it’s something my country instilled in me,” she said. “You knew how to cook, how to sew. I knew how to take care of myself better than my kids. I knew I could survive, and I had this real drive. I was determined to do this on my own and not fail because I didn’t want to go back.”
After Theron’s success in Hollywood, adopted daughters jackson and august in 2012 and 2015 respectively.
If you or someone you know is experiencing domestic violence, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 for confidential support.
