Charlize Theron Survives Father Shooting

Charlize Theron has said that as a teenager in South Africa, her abusive, alcoholic father came home drunk one night and fired a gun through the door of the room she and her mother were holding shut for protection. As he sprayed bullets into the door toward them, none of the shots hit either Charlize or her mother. Her mother then shot him dead, acting in self-defense.

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