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He has tackled every assignment from interviewing astronauts on the International Space Station to prison inmates training service dogs for military veterans. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Share this —. Follow today. The Bombshell actress, 44, spoke to NPR about her father Charles Theron drunkenly threatening her and her mother, Gerda , on a night in June when the star was He took a step back and just shot through the door three times.

Our family was just kind of stuck in it. And 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. I think our family was an incredibly unhealthy one. And all of it, I think, scarred us in a way. In a interview with Howard Stern, Charlize confessed that she wanted to keep the whole thing a secret and pretend like nothing ever happened.

Whenever anybody asked me, I said my dad died in a car accident. Who wants to tell that story? Nobody wants to tell that story.

We can only imagine how stressful and awkward this must've been for the actress. But thankfully, this all changed after she started seeking therapy in her twenties. She eventually discovered that she was actually okay with her father's passing, and that the real root of her problems involved the "everyday nightmare" of growing up with an alcoholic. So a mother who never really had therapy dealing with something like that — trying to get your child out of that.

Acknowledge that this is horrible.