in 2004 Charlize Theron's became the
envy of every woman in Hollywood when
she won the Oscar for Best Actress for
her turn as prostitute turned serial
killer Aileen Wuornos and monster to
statuesque blonde from South Africa
directly addressed her mother Gerda
during her acceptance speech Oh
sacrificed so much for me
to be able to live here and make my
dreams come true and there are no words
to describe how much I love you but
what's there in speech just a case of
Tinseltown drama or in fact even crueler
than fiction let's take a look at
Charlize Barron's tragic real-life story
and how she rose above it all difficult
childhood you think someone who looks a
beautiful affair and could skate through
life but for the first decade of her
existence things were quite the opposite
the a-lister revealed my early childhood
was quite devastating
I had no teeth until I was 11 I had
these things because they had jaundice
when I was a kid and I was put on so
many antibiotics at my teeth rotted they
had to cut them out but her struggles in
childhood didn't end with her health she
remembered her dad Charles yacouba's
sarin while speaking to ABC News saying
he was a verbal abusers he also had a
disease he was an alcoholic in June 1991
after a night of heavy drinking Charles
and his brother said offer the Ferran
household when her aunt called ahead to
warn that her father was particularly
agitated that evening Theron said I knew
something bad was going to happen
according to her mother's later
testimony her father shot the locked
gate to their home and began banging on
her 15 year old daughter's bedroom door
shouting that he was going to kill them
both with a shotgun
Charles allegedly fired a shot through
his daughters door and Gerta pulled her
own gun shooting him dead Theron recalls
I think for me it took a long time to
sink in what had really happened I know
that if my daughter was in the same
situation I would do the same thing
years later in 2008 South African true
crime writer Chris Carson released a
book called killer women fatal South
African females one of the cases he
focused on was out of ferren's mother
whom he suspected might not have been
entirely truthful about the events of
that tragic evening in 1991 his book is
said to have infuriated Aaron
particularly because it contains
interviews of family members who have
previously vowed to keep quiet
sarens and alpha male in post Carson we
want to set the record straight he was a
dedicated family man
his wife and daughter were the most
important things in his life as for his
so-called alcoholism I never saw him
drunk fleeing south africa and the end
Goethe was found to be legally justified
in their actions but while that was
being decided she told her daughter to
go chase her dreams
therein said for her to say go go make
something of your life that was an
extremely brave thing for her to do
those are the sacrifices you know that I
think you do for your children she
always put me first dance and
devastation
Farren told the New York Times at 16 I
want a modeling contest and move to
Milan even though I was modeling I
always thought of myself as a dancer I
saw modeling like waitressing it was a
way to pay for another career and that
career was dance but her dreams quickly
came crashing down she said I spent a
winter in New York and a friend's
windowless basement apartment I was
broke I was taking class of the Joffrey
Ballet and my knees gave out I realized
I couldn't dance anymore
and I went into a major depression and
like before her mother saved her life
it was Gerda who told Charlize stop
wallowing figure it out you like to tell
stories you like movies try that unlucky
breaks Ferrand moved to LA but the young
starlet whose first language is
Afrikaans struggle to get an agent I
mean it's fine we local one Afrikaans
the proccess Estonian push witnesses of
the cons pros and human processing
citizen Vicki flogged but a chance
encounter in a bank each for the break
she needed she told indie London my
mother had sent me a check to help me
pay my rent and I was trying to cash it
in a bank on Hollywood Boulevard a clerk
refused and I just went nuts after the
shouting was over a man handed me his
business card and told me to get in
touch he turned out to be a genuine
talent manager called John Crosbie he
introduced me to some casting agents she
landed her first gig in 1995 children of
the corn three urban harvest and won her
first name part the following year as
James Spader's girlfriend Helga in two
days in the valley
she said I never thought that I would be
particularly successful as an actress I
just wanted to earn a living that was
just the start and she went on to have a
hugely successful Hollywood career but
it wasn't without its own share of
troubles injuries and health issues
Theron was nearly paralyzed when a
sudden she performed for 2005 Ian flex
went wrong
leaving a disc close to her spinal cord
damaged doctor
the injury would leave her with limited
mobility in the future though she
recovered fully
she told Total Film what I learned is
that back then I was like I'll do it
I'll do it I'll do it and now I know
there's a time in the place you have to
be smart about it and I've definitely
come to a place in my career where I
would be the first to say without
feeling guilty or not badass enough you
know what I don't need to do this
that injury scared me I was almost
paralyzed she later did permanent damage
to her voice box while filming the 2009
adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel
the road rupturing vocal chords during
the birth scene despite these setbacks
and her troubles as a young woman Theron
seems to be forging ahead in Hollywood
one role at a time I chose this one and
someday it's going to get me killed but
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