Charlize Theron

And I actually, there was only one time I became violent and it was, a girl had kind of like taunted me with it.

And she was kind of walking around telling everybody how she had seen my dad drunk.

And, you know, this was something that was super sensitive to me because he would show up at school events really drunk.

And it was really embarrassing.

And not that a child, I mean, I know this now, but not that a child should ever take that on.

That has nothing to do with you, but...

But when you don't know that, you make it very personal.

I always felt like I had to make excuses for him.

I always had to like tell some story to soften the edges a little bit.

And I think I did try to sweep it under the rug because I also, I hated people feeling sorry for me.

I hated it.

I almost feel like that was the worst thing was like that now for the rest of my life, people are going to feel sorry for me.

So for the first couple of years, for as long as I could, I would have told this story that he died in a car accident and that it happened then three years earlier.

I couldn't tell it to my school friends.

But by the time I left South Africa, that's the story I told.

Because I just, I didn't want to like have people show pity.

I didn't want pity.

It made me so uncomfortable.

So you end up leaving South Africa.

Yeah.