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Charlize Theron wants to speak about her experiences with \u201cfamily violence\u201d in order to help others who are going through similar struggles.<\/p>\n
The 44-year-old actress grew up in an \u201cunhealthy\u201d environment which saw her mother kill her father in an act of self-defence, and she has now said she is \u201cnot ashamed\u201d to talk about the harrowing incident, because she wants to raise awareness for domestic violence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
She said: “This family violence, this kind of violence that happens within the family, is something that I share with a lot of people. I’m not ashamed to talk about it, because I do think that the more we talk about these things, the more we realise we are not alone in any of it. I think, for me, it’s just always been that this story really is about growing up with addicts and what that does to a person.\u201d<\/p>\n
Charlize also opened up about the incident, as she explained her \u201calcoholic\u201d father had fired three shots at Charlize and her mother, and whilst neither of them were hit by the bullets, her mother acted in self-defence to \u201cend the threat\u201d.<\/p>\n
The \u2018Bombshell\u2019 star recalled: “My father was a very sick man. My father was an alcoholic all my life. I only knew him one way, and that was as an alcoholic … It was a pretty hopeless situation. 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 embedded in your body for the rest of your life, more than just this one event of what happened one night.<\/p>\n