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Charlize Theron reveals details if traumatic night her mother shot her dad dead in self-defence

Charlize Theron has spoken about the night her mother fatally shot her father in self-defence, describing how she once believed her family were ‘the only people’ to experience such trauma

Charlize Theron has spoken about the night her mother fatally shot her father in self-defence – describing how she once believed her family were “the only people” to experience such trauma.

The actress, 50, recalled the 1991 incident in an interview with The New York Times, reflecting on events that took place when she was 15 and living in South Africa with her mother, Gerda Jacoba Aletta Martiz, now in her 70s, and her father, Charles Theron.

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