{"id":286585,"date":"2011-03-02T10:30:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T10:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/02\/oscars-2011-christian-bales-mother-reveals-oscar-winner-blanked-her-congratulatory-text\/"},"modified":"2011-03-02T10:30:53","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T10:30:53","slug":"oscars-2011-christian-bales-mother-reveals-oscar-winner-blanked-her-congratulatory-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/02\/oscars-2011-christian-bales-mother-reveals-oscar-winner-blanked-her-congratulatory-text\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscars 2011: Christian Bale&#8217;s mother reveals Oscar-winner blanked her congratulatory text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"152.656909091\">\n<!-- google_ad_section_start(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\nBy<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=y&#038;authornamef=Daily+Mail+Reporter\" rel=\"nofollow\">Daily Mail Reporter<\/a><br \/>Last updated at 10:30 AM on 2nd March 2011<\/p>\n<p>Christian Bale\u2019s career might have reached a new peak of success after picking up his Oscar this week, but his mother Jenny is still desperately trying to repair their broken relationship.<\/p>\n<p>The actor, who won Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Fighter, hasn\u2019t spoken to his mother in three years and as she watched her son accept his award from her home in Bournemouth, she was only able to email him \u2018Well done, love mum X\u2019, without receiving a reply.<\/p>\n<p>Bale\u2019s 63-year-old mother says Christian hasn\u2019t sent her a response but said she hopes his Oscar can bring them closer together since a family feud tore them apart in 2008.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"8\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/ad3caeae322_468x610.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"610\" alt=\"Oscar winner: Christian Bale picked up his Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Fighter\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oscar winner: Christian Bale picked up his Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Fighter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jenny said: \u2018I stayed up late to watch on TV. I was nodding off but had to stay awake to see my son\u2019s big moment\u2026. The family are so pleased for him. This Oscar is well deserved.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Despite proudly watching her son alongside his wife Sibi on the small screen, Jenny says she cried as she saw other celebrities there with their mothers, while she hasn\u2019t spoken to hers in years. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018I\u2019d love Christian to walk through the door right now. I\u2019d give him a big hug and a kiss and we could forget about the last three years.\u2019, she told The Sun.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She says her son has also ignored her Christmas and birthday cards since the feud kicked off when the 37-year-old actor was arrested and bailed in July 2008 after allegedly \u2018flying off the handle\u2019 at London\u2019s Dorchester hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Bale\u2019s mother and sister accused the star of assault after the argument on the night of his Batman premiere for The Dark Night, leading to the demise of their relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Jenny says she went to her son\u2019s hotel suite alongside Christian\u2019s sister Sharon, 43, and her daughters Ruby, 15, Florence, 12, and Keira, four, where he apparently soon lost his temper.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div readability=\"8\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/247acfad195_468x628.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"628\" alt=\"Proud mother: Jenny Bale says she watched her son pick up his Oscar in tears from her home in Bournemouth as other celebrities took their mothers to the awards\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Proud mother: Jenny Bale says she watched her son pick up his Oscar in tears from her home in Bournemouth as other celebrities took their mothers to the awards<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jenny, who is a counsellor and former circus clown, said: \u2018We were going for dinner. He was running late and kicked off, shouting at us. I\u2019d never seen him lose his temper before.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>After the incident Sharon went to Ringwood Police Station and reported the incident, alleging that her son had shoved her and his mother and threw them out of the hotel room.<\/p>\n<p>Christian\u2019s assault charge was later dropped but he has since cut ties with his family and Jenny is desperate to reconnect with him.<\/p>\n<p>In her interview with the tabloid, she said: \u2018Sharon never forgave him for upsetting her kids. He never forgave her for calling the police.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018If I had done something wrong I would apologise but I really don\u2019t know why it\u2019s all come to this. Maybe because he\u2019s an actor he can go into character and the blinds just come down.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Although she hasn\u2019t been able to congratulate him face to face, Jenny has commended Christian for his award winning role as crack addict boxer-turned trainer Dicky in The Fighter.<\/p>\n<div readability=\"9\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/0d2e57b3609_468x286.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"286\" alt=\"Happier times: Christian Bale (left) poses with his mother and sisters Louise and Sharon in 1995, before the feud\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Happier times: Christian Bale (left) poses with his mother and sisters Louise and Sharon in 1995, before the feud<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>She says he puts 200 per cent into his roles and even grows his hair and beard in-between jobs just in case he needs them for his next part.<\/p>\n<p>Before their feud, Christian had bought his mother a \u00a3241,000 three-bedroom home and also supported his father David, who died from cancer seven years ago.<\/p>\n<p>But his generosity has been overshadowed recently by the family rift and a his famous foul-mouthed rant from that was caught on tape and played over the internet.<\/p>\n<p>On the set of Terminator Salvation, Bale was recorded during his famous meltdown, in which he yelled the F word 35 times as someone walking behind him on set.<\/p>\n<p>Christian is no stranger to foul language though and recently let off steam during an interview with the Australian edition of Empire magazine, saying he wanted to \u2018p*** on the shoes\u2019 of a critic who wrote about his \u2018trademark weight loss\u2019 acting,.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u2018To be honest, I find it laughable that it\u2019s considered to be some f****** gimmick \u2013 it\u2019s so patronizing.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018For God\u2019s sake, do people not understand what a pain it is to do?\u2019 <\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-1362063\/Oscars-2011-Christian-Bales-mother-reveals-Oscar-winner-blanked-congratulatory-text.html?ITO=1490\" title=\"Oscars 2011: Christian Bale's mother reveals Oscar-winner blanked her congratulatory text\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oscars 2011: Christian Bale&#8217;s mother reveals Oscar-winner blanked her congratulatory text<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 10:30 AM on 2nd March 2011 Christian Bale\u2019s career might have reached a new peak of success after picking up his Oscar this week, but his mother Jenny is still desperately trying to repair their broken relationship. The actor, who won Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Fighter, hasn\u2019t spoken to his mother in three years and as she watched her son accept his award from her home in Bournemouth, she was only able to email him \u2018Well done, love mum X\u2019, without receiving a reply. Bale\u2019s 63-year-old mother says Christian hasn\u2019t sent her a response but said she hopes his Oscar can bring them closer together since a family feud tore them apart in 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Oscars 2011: Christian Bale&#039;s mother reveals Oscar-winner blanked her congratulatory text - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/02\/oscars-2011-christian-bales-mother-reveals-oscar-winner-blanked-her-congratulatory-text\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Oscars 2011: Christian Bale&#039;s mother reveals Oscar-winner blanked her congratulatory text - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 10:30 AM on 2nd March 2011 Christian Bale\u2019s career might have reached a new peak of success after picking up his Oscar this week, but his mother Jenny is still desperately trying to repair their broken relationship. 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