She added: \u201cI never knew about a story like that. When this happened to us, I thought we were the only people. I\u2019m not haunted by this stuff anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n
Theron also described the moments before the confrontation, explaining she had run into the house without greeting her father.<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cI had to pee really badly. So I ran into the house to get to the toilet, and he took that as me being rude, because I didn\u2019t stop and say hello to everybody.<\/p>\n
\u201cBig thing in South Africa, the kind of respect that you have to have for elders. \u201cAnd he was in a state where he just spiralled. Like: \u2018Why didn\u2019t you stop? Who do you think you are?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Theron said she later went to her room, fearing further conflict.<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cI knew he was mad at me. So I said to [my mother], \u2018When he eventually decides to come home, please tell him I\u2019m asleep\u2019. <\/p>\n
\u201cI went into my room, I turned my lights off, and I was scared.\u201d <\/p>\n
She went on: \u201cMy window faced the driveway, and I could tell the level of anger, frustration, or unhappiness by the way he drove in.\u201d <\/p>\n
Theron also said she \u201cjust knew something bad was going to happen\u201d. <\/p>\n
She described her father forcing entry and firing shots.<\/p>\n
Theron said: \u201cThe two of us were holding the door with our bodies because there wasn\u2019t a lock on it. He just stepped back and started shooting through the door.\u201d<\/p>\n
But she added: \u201cNot one bullet hit us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Theron said her mother retrieved a firearm and responded.<\/p>\n
She said: \u201cThe messaging was very clear: \u2018I\u2019m going to kill you tonight. You think I can\u2019t come into this door? Watch me. I\u2019m going to go to the safe. I\u2019m going to get the shotgun.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
She said her father and uncle, who had allegedly accompanied Charles, were both shot.<\/p>\n
Theron added: \u201cHe walked to the safe, and my mom pulled the door open while the brother was still standing there.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe brother ran down the hallway, and she shot one bullet down the hallway that ricocheted seven times and shot him in the hand. It\u2019s stuff you can\u2019t explain. And then she followed my father, who was by then opening the safe to get more weapons out, and she shot him.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said after the incident, her mother continued with daily life.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe next morning she sent me to school. She was just like, \u2018we\u2019re going to move on\u2019,\u201d Theron said. <\/p>\n
\u201cNot necessarily the healthiest thing, but it worked for us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She added: \u201cI never knew about a story like that. When this happened to us, I thought we…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1443,8843,200987,690,39172,156,17515,2109,33445,2209,1364,6178,111,139,2551,69,1118,6029,2847,384,58932,10117,54894,9100,6642,223,200988,1908,3608],"class_list":{"0":"post-388163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-about","9":"tag-believed","10":"tag-charlize","11":"tag-dead","12":"tag-describing","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-experience","15":"tag-family","16":"tag-fatally","17":"tag-father","18":"tag-her","19":"tag-mother","20":"tag-new-zealand","21":"tag-newzealand","22":"tag-night","23":"tag-nz","24":"tag-of","25":"tag-once","26":"tag-only","27":"tag-people","28":"tag-selfdefence","29":"tag-shot","30":"tag-spoken","31":"tag-such","32":"tag-tells","33":"tag-the","34":"tag-theron","35":"tag-trauma","36":"tag-were"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}