India, April 19 -- Actor Charlize Theron has established herself as one of the most vocal advocates of laws against domestic violence worldwide. In a recent interview, the Oscar winner revealed it was due to the instability and violence she saw in her own house growing up. Charlize revealed that things got to a point where her own father tried to kill her, leading her mother to intervene and fatally shoot him in self-defence.

In an interview with The New York Times, Charlize spoke about seeing violence around her growing up in South Africa. She described her father's battles with alcoholism. "He was a full-blown functioning drunk, but he had moments where he would go missing; we wouldn't know where he was, and he would usually return in ...