{"id":79854,"date":"2026-04-19T04:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T04:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/charlize-theron-recalls-her-fathers-verbal-abuse\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T04:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T04:00:07","slug":"charlize-theron-recalls-her-fathers-verbal-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/charlize-theron-recalls-her-fathers-verbal-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlize Theron Recalls Her Father’s \u2018Verbal Abuse’"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Charlize Theron <\/b>is looking back on her difficult upbringing in South Africa.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have memories from when I was really young, seeing really drunk people, and it scared me,\u201d Theron, 50, told The New York Times <\/i><\/span>in a profile published Saturday, April 17. \u201cLike, people crawling on the floor drunk. That became so consistent that it was every Friday, Saturday, maybe even every Wednesday. My dad had built this big bar inside the house.\u201d<\/p>\n

Theron further claimed that her dad, Charles<\/b>, was \u201ca full-blown functioning drunk.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had moments where he would go missing, we wouldn\u2019t know where he was and he would usually return in a state that was pretty severe,\u201d the actress alleged. \u201cIt would get messy and loud, and my mom\u2019s not a wallflower either. She wasn\u2019t just sitting and taking it. She made it known that she wasn\u2019t happy about his lifestyle. So, it really caused a lot of verbal abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Related: <\/span>Charlize Theron\u2018s Candid Quotes About Motherhood<\/span>
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\n\t\t\tCharlize Theron loves her kids more than anything. The actress adopted her daughters, Jackson and August, in 2012 and 2015, respectively, and has been gushing over her role as a mom ever since. \u201cI do know that choosing to be a mom in my late 30s has been really great for me,\u201d Theron told W [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

She continued, \u201cPersonally, for me, the worst thing was they would ice each other. There would be a big fight, and then they wouldn\u2019t talk for three weeks. I didn\u2019t have siblings, and that house just went silent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Theron\u2019s mother, Gerda<\/b>, shot and killed her husband in 1991 out of self-defense. Theron was 15 at the time.<\/p>\n

While speaking with The Times<\/i>, Theron clarified that her father wasn\u2019t physically violent toward her.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was scary. He didn\u2019t hit me, he didn\u2019t throw me against a wall, but he would do things like drive drunk,\u201d she said. \u201cThere was a lot of verbal abuse, a lot of threatening language that just became normal.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Theron, her mom even enrolled her in a boarding school to \u201cget [Theron] out of the house.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was very aware of what it was doing to me,\u201d Theron told the outlet. \u201cAll the memories are there, and it\u2019s not that I don\u2019t try and think about it, but going in such a linear manner, it becomes almost more clear when you talk about it this way. Because people tend to just isolate it and want to talk about one thing. It helps to explain that these things build, and they build, and it takes years for things to go as wrong as it did in my house.\u201d<\/p>\n

Theron eventually left South Africa when she was 16 to pursue a modeling career in Europe.<\/p>\n

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