Remember the big fight Christian Bale had with his mother and sister back in 2008 before the London premiere of The Dark Knight? So big that they reported him to the police!
Well they haven’t seen or heard from him since and they’re speaking out about the incident. Says his mother Jenny:
“He just exploded with anger like I have never seen. He never gave us a chance to find out what it was all about before he frog-marched us out of his suite. He’s not talking to us, it’s not the other way round. He has changed his phone numbers, and he ignores the letters, emails and birthday cards I send.
“As awful as that night was, and although I rack my mind every day about what could have made him behave like that, I’d happily forget it happened if we could go back to being a family. That’s the most important thing. We miss Christian terribly. But it’s been more than 18 months now and it’s hard to see how this will ever end.”
Apparently Christian hadn’t seen his family in England very much before the incident either, but he kept in contact via e-mail from time to time. His sister Sharon explains:
“He’d emailed a few times. In the last one, he signed off saying: ‘See you at The Dorchester for the premiere. Perhaps we’ll have dinner?’ So that’s what we were expecting. We hadn’t all been together for maybe a year. I was dying to see him and his family, especially his little girl.
“Then he walked in and immediately started shouting at us. He was saying how angry he was that we had left the arrangements to the last minute – which made no sense because we’d been planning it for weeks with all the people around him. Perhaps the messages weren’t getting through, we just don’t know.”
Rumors have been circulating for quite some time that both Jenny and Sharon were needling Christian for money and that had a lot to do with their estrangement, but Sharon denies ever asking her brother for money.
Well, we think calling the police on him might have been the final nail in the coffin — pretty sure he wasn’t too pleased with that! Not to mention speaking to the media about the argument 18 months later when we all know he’s a pretty private guy.
Probably not the best way to attempt to re-connect!
[Image via Nikki Nelson / WENN.]
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