[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content] Charlize Theron is reflecting on the terrifying night that changed her life forever. Before a life of fame, the Mad Max: Fury Road star escaped a dark, deeply abusive home... thanks to her mother. In a sprawling interview with the New York Times published on Saturday, Charlize reflected on the traumatizing night when her mother Gerda Jacoba Aletta Martiz shot her father Charles Theron while he was trying to "kill" them both.