Monday, 7th January 2008 at 12:02 pm

Charlize Theron’s estranged family resurfaces

If this past holiday season served as a reminder to you and reinforced your suspicions that your family is annoying, rest assured that you have been upstaged by at least the Spears family from Louisiana, United States; and the Theron family from Benoni, South Africa, currently of Hollywood, California.

It’s old news that South African Oscar winner Charlize Theron’s mother Gerda killed Charlize’s father Charles when Charlize was only 15 years old. Gerda claimed it was self defense and she was never prosecuted. Shortly afterwards, Gerda and Charlize broke all contact with the late Charles’ family.

Now Charlize’s paternal grandmother Bettie is begging a reconciliation with her famous and estranged granddaughter. Yes, we agree that it is usually the other way around. But perhaps, when your granddaughter is super famous and rich, you’ll also resort to shameless begging to try and get your gnarly hands on her money?

Coincidentally (or not so coincidentally), her grandmother’s plea is surfacing at the same time as a new book, Killer Women: Fatal South African Females, by South African writer Chris Karsten. In the book, Charlize’s aunt Elsa Malan casts doubt on the actress’s claim that her mother, Gerda, was a victim of domestic abuse.

“We want to set the record straight. All those perceptions that Charles was some kind of a monster at home were very hurtful to our family and everyone who knew him. He was a dedicated family man. His wife and daughter were the most important things in his life,” Elsa says, calling her late brother ‘mild-mannered’.

In the mean time, Charlize’s ailing grandmother wishes to see her famous granddaughter at least once more before she dies.

We suggest that she does it like the rest of us… via Google images! (By the way, wasn’t Charlize and her mom hawt in the 80s?)
Additional reading: Theron’s grandma hopes for reunion with star - PR Inside.

Charlize Theron’s mother killed her father - scandal reopened - Stupid Celebrities.