Overview
- Theron recounts in a recent interview the tense hours before her mother killed her father in self-defense when she was 15 in South Africa.
- She describes a home fitted with metal security doors and says her father came home drunk with his brother, fired through the front door, and threatened to kill them.
- Theron says she and her mother braced her bedroom door as shots came through it and heard clear threats to their lives.
- She says her mother grabbed a gun and shot her father as he tried to access more weapons, and a ricocheted shot injured her uncle’s hand.
- Theron now speaks openly to support survivors and backs anti-violence and HIV prevention work through her UN Messenger of Peace role and her Africa Outreach Project.