Charlize Theron

That was also just a lot of threatening language, you know, that just became normal.

It really became normal.

And so I never, when I was younger, stepped in.

When I was around 12, I think I remember my mom, or no, maybe even 13, I remember my mom using the divorce word for the first time.

And divorce is just, then was not...

we didn't know people who were divorced.

And my parents weren't religious, but it was just culturally one of those things, like you just didn't do that.

So that was never kind of even discussed.

They had been married for 25 years.

And so when she said, like, I think the best thing for us is for me to separate from him.

And it doesn't make any sense, but it was so scary because I didn't know what that would look like.

And so in a weird way, I was almost talking her back into like staying because the alternative felt so foreign to me.

But I think she knew, and she was trying to figure out ways to... I mean, she sent me to a boarding school specifically because she wanted me to get out of the house.

She knew that she had to get me out of the house.

I mean, it was getting to that point where she was very aware what it was doing to me.

It was a combination of all of those things, just...

So strange to, you know, because all the memories are there.

And it's not that I don't try and think about it, but it's just weird.

You're kind of like going in such a linear manner that it becomes almost more clear when you talk about it that way.

Because people tend to just isolate it and want to talk about one thing.