6 Celebrities Who Had Terrible Childhoods

Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron was born into an abusive family. She’d known her father to be the worst drunkard. Theron went through series of frequent physical and emotional abuse. The worst experience in her childhood was when her mother killed her father by shooting him with a gun over an argument, which she later was claimed to be an act of self-defense.

Her mother pushed her into modeling, but she left it later to pursue her passion, ballet. Although she didn’t make it here either because of the health difficulties, she eventually got someone who was willing to help her become a greater person.