Charlize Theron
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It was verbally very, very clear.
You think I can't come into this door?
And I'm going to go to the safe.
I'm going to get the shotgun.
Let me show you how I can get through this door.
That kind of stuff.
Encouragement from the brother.
And my mom, he had walked to the safe and my mom pulled the door open while the brother was still standing there.
And the brother ran down the hallway and she shot one bullet down the hallway that ricocheted seven times and shot him in the hand.
It's stuff you can't explain.
And then followed my father who was by then opening the safe to get more weapons out.
And she shot him.
Unfortunately, not an isolated story.
You know, these things are prevalent in a lot of families' homes.
And I feel like women really get a very, very unfair shake, even I feel like in this country.
Women who, nobody takes it seriously, the situation that they're in.
And I don't think anybody took my mom seriously.
In advance to this, you mean?
Yeah, to how bad it was.