Charlize Theron
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I mean, she made it known that she wasn't happy about his lifestyle.
So it caused, because of both of them, it really caused a lot of like verbal abuse.
And they also just, I honestly, personally, for me, the worst thing was they would ice each other.
They wouldn't talk to each other for like, there was like a big fight and then they wouldn't talk to each other for like three weeks.
And I didn't have siblings, and the house just went silent.
It just went totally silent.
No one would even say good morning to each other, and I would be so scared to say something.
So for three weeks, no one would talk inside the house.
Did you feel like you had to mediate that or you just wanted to not be included in that?
Yeah, I wouldn't because it's South Africa at that time when I was raised was like children should be seen and not heard.
You never said anything ever, ever.
I remember one time saying something to my dad and it was like I was made very aware like you just don't do that.
It's none of your business.
Was he violent towards you?
I mean, violent, he was scary in a sense that wasn't like he didn't hit me.
He didn't throw me against a wall.
But he would do things like he would drive drunk and he would drive scary and they would get into a fight and he would like, you know, you know, a lot of kind of verbal abuse.
He was taking, he would become violent on things, you know.