Charlize Theron returned to school day after mother killed father in self-defence

Charlize Theron was just 15 when her mother fatally shot her father at their home in South Africa (Picture: Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

Actress Charlize Theron has recalled the night her mother killed her father in self-defence – and how she went back to school the next day.

Now aged 50, Theron was just 15 when the incident happened on June 21, 1991, after her father, Charles, an alcoholic, attacked her mother, Gerda, and threatened the pair.

However, she has insisted that the harrowing ordeal does not haunt her today.

Speaking candidly in a new interview, the Monster star recounted how her father initially became enraged when she entered her uncle’s house without g...