Theron: I'm not ashamed to say my mother killed my father.

She said she was always open to talk about the event because she wanted to send a message to others who are in similar situations that they realize are not alone.

This domestic violence is something I share with a lot of people, I'm not ashamed to talk, because I think the more we talk about these things, the more we realize we're not alone in anything. In my case, there's the story of growing up with a addict and what addiction does to a man”, said Charlie, who was 15 years old when her mother Gerda shot her husband Charles in 1991.

Gerda was never prosecuted for her husband's murder, since his murder was marked as self - defense. The shooting came as Charles threatened the family with firearms at their South African home, after which Gerd shot him in the eyes of Charlie.

Earlier in one of her interviews, Charlie described her relationship with her father as extremely unhealthy.

My father was a very sick man. He's been an alcoholic all his life. It was a very hopeless situation. I think my family was extremely unhealthy. Of course, I wish that night and everything that happened never happened, but unfortunately it happens when you can't stay at the root of this kind of problem”, says the actress who was recently part of the “Bbeshll” that will soon be shown in the cinema.