The 44-year-old Hollywood actress Charlize Theron has won a sea of awards for his many film roles. Including, she won an Oscar in the category ‘best actress’ for her performance in the film ‘Monster’ from 2003.

In movie played Theron in the role as female serial killer Aileen Wuornos, who was executed for killing seven men in the 1980s and 1990s.

In his private life has Charlize Theron, who grew up in the town of Benoni outside Johannesburg in south Africa, also experienced the senseless violence at close range. She was only 15-year-old witnessed her mother killed her alcoholic father in the month of June 1991.

It tells Charlize Theron in a radio interview with the american radio station NPR

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Charlize Theron is seen here together with her mother Gerda, who was acquitted of having murdered her father. She shot him in self-defense. (Photo: AP)

On the fateful day that changed Charlize Therons life forever, came to her violent and alcoholic father home from a bar.

– My father was so full that he almost was not able to go, as he came into the house with a gun in his hand, telling Charlize Theron to the radio station NPR, and adds:

– My mother and I had ensconced ourselves in my parents ‘ bedroom, where we leaned us against the door to prevent my father could penetrate into the room.

– But then he began to fire off shots, He fired three shots through the door. But miraculously hit no one of the balls to us, ” explains Theron and adds that the mother then left the bedroom to confront her heavily intoxicated husband.

Here we see Charlize Theron in the role as serial killer Aileen Wuornos in the film ‘Monster’ from 2003. (Photo: AP)

Theron has earlier told, that she heard the loud argument and the new shots that were fired, before she even went out in the hallway. And here she met a gruesome sight. Her father lay namely shot and killed out in the hallway. The police raised the never the prosecution against Charlize Therons mother Gerda. The court ruled that she killed her husband in self-defense.

Theron has also previously in an interview with People described his father thus:

– I knew him in a way, and it was like an alcoholic. It was a quite hopeless situation. Our whole family was locked into his alcoholism. The unpredictable days that regularly occur in life with a person who is addicted to alcohol. It has consequences for you and the rest of your life, and it’s not just about what happened that night in June, explained Theron, who, in turn, commends his mother to the skies and call her an incredibly unique woman, who has several times saved her life.

Beautiful Charilze Theron grew on, the violence is close to his or her life with an alcoholic violent father. (Photo: Ritzau Scanpix)