The Oscar winner has recalled times when she visited Jeffreys Bay as a young girl and reminisced over how packed the waters were with sharks.
In an interview on USA Today the actress revealed, “It’s a place I used to go as a kid on summer vacations, we had a house [nearby].”
She added: “As a kid we would swim in the ocean and you would hear the lifeguards blowing on their whistles and all the kids would just run out of the water.”
The mum-of-one then chillingly explained, “We would just stand there … and we would watch the shark swim all the way [out of the bay] and then the whistle would go off again and we would just run back into the water.”
A perplexed Charlize added: “It was just weird, because I saw that [Fanning’s attack], and it was like a memory came back to me, and I went, ‘Oh my God… Now that I’m an adult, now that I have my own kid, I’m just like, ‘What were my parents thinking?”
Her parents were also quite causal about the deadly creatures, “They were like, ‘Oh, it’s okay, just go and have fun at the beach!’ “
Just days ago Mick Fanning made headlines around the globe when he escaped a shark attack during a surfing completion on live TV.
The attack has seen an out pouring of support for the surfer, including stars like Charlize Theron, who clearly can empathise with the Gold Coast boy.
