# Christian Bale arrested for assaulting his mother and sister! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 22, 2008, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-bale-arrested-for-assaulting-his-mother-and-sister/457404 "2008-07-22T18:59:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-bale-arrested-for-assaulting-his-mother-and-sister/457404/41 "2008-07-23T21:09:51Z")
[QUOTE=a35362] So…Mama picks a fight by saying ugly things about her daughter-in-law, they get into a shouting match, and somehow the police get involved, but Mama says she didn’t call the cops. So how did the police get involved? Maybe the hotel staff? [/quote] Nobody called the police to the scene, is what she means. They only came into it when the mom filed charges. > [@](#): > > I want to know why his mother and sister were at his hotel. Were they staying with him, or did they just show up unannounced and uninvited? They showed up. Invited or uninvited, I don’t know. But apparently they sat and waited an hour or so for him to get back. So they were probably on edge already when he arrived. ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-bale-arrested-for-assaulting-his-mother-and-sister/457404/42 "2008-07-23T21:23:27Z")
TMZ is saying that there has been long-standing difficulties between Bale and his mother since she forced him to choose between her and his father in their divorce many years ago. Bale’s father became his manager, and moms got left out of the payday. The mom and sister sound bitter and shifty, so I wouldn’t be surprised if charges were dropped. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-bale-arrested-for-assaulting-his-mother-and-sister/457404/43 "2008-07-23T21:42:12Z")
I see. Mom isn’t profiting from her son’s career, so when he stars in a wildly successful movie and won’t pony up cash she didn’t earn, she decides to publicly humiliate him. Nice. I think he made the right decision back when the divorce happened. ---
**Author:** ![Risha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@Risha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Risha)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-bale-arrested-for-assaulting-his-mother-and-sister/457404/44 "2008-07-24T02:23:26Z")
Completely pointless aside: according to the radio program I was listening to this morning, Mom is a former circus clown. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-bale-arrested-for-assaulting-his-mother-and-sister/457404/45 "2008-07-24T04:59:55Z")
[QUOTE=Risha] Mom is a former circus clown. [/QUOTE] That explains why she, his sister, and 14 other relatives all got out of the same little bitty car at the premiere. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-bale-arrested-for-assaulting-his-mother-and-sister/457404/46 "2008-07-24T06:12:33Z")
[QUOTE=Risha] Mom is a former circus clown. [/QUOTE] Harley Quinn! ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-bale-arrested-for-assaulting-his-mother-and-sister/457404/47 "2008-07-24T13:11:19Z")
[QUOTE=CaerieD] …Seriously though, I feel bad for the whole family, having what should have been a stupid, private thing blown up into this monstrosity. When I first heard about this on the radio, they made it sound like Bale was some sort of evil woman beater, which seemed very strange. Considering his history in activism and that his step-mother was **Gloria** frickin’ **Steinem** , it just…didn’t compute. [/QUOTE] What kind of activism? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-bale-arrested-for-assaulting-his-mother-and-sister/457404/48 "2008-07-24T13:16:20Z")
Clown rights. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-bale-arrested-for-assaulting-his-mother-and-sister/457404/49 "2008-07-24T16:09:43Z")
[QUOTE=a35362] What kind of activism? [/QUOTE] Environmental and animal rights causes, if I remember right. His father was an activist too. He’s been a vegetarian since he read _Charlotte’s Web_ as a little kid. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-bale-arrested-for-assaulting-his-mother-and-sister/457404/50 "2008-07-24T20:29:53Z")
Well, no one wants to eat spiders, but you don’t have to go whole hog vegetarianism. (I thought this was the thread for bad jokes!) ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-bale-arrested-for-assaulting-his-mother-and-sister/457404/51 "2008-07-24T21:19:21Z")
The Daily Mail is saying today that it began when Bale’s sister asked him for £100,000 “to help raise her children.” [Story here](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1038185/Christian-Bale-flew-handle-family-begged-100k.html). ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-bale-arrested-for-assaulting-his-mother-and-sister/457404/52 "2008-07-24T21:52:12Z")
Hey, I wish Christian Bale would give me a bunch of money to raise my kids too. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-bale-arrested-for-assaulting-his-mother-and-sister/457404/53 "2008-07-24T21:57:24Z")
Yeah, with that money I could get someone to help me make 'em. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-bale-arrested-for-assaulting-his-mother-and-sister/457404/54 "2008-07-24T22:07:07Z")
I don’t have any kids at the moment either, but I’d be willing to save the money for when I do. Or if he has a strict policy about only wanting to support his _own_ kids, I’m willing to go that route too. I’m sure my husband will understand. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-bale-arrested-for-assaulting-his-mother-and-sister/457404/55 "2008-07-24T22:50:16Z")
[QUOTE=Max Torque] The Daily Mail is saying today that it began when Bale’s sister asked him for £100,000 “to help raise her children.” [Story here](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1038185/Christian-Bale-flew-handle-family-begged-100k.html). [/QUOTE] I thought English people just sent them to boarding school or workhouses. Are there no workhouses anymore? ETA: bad pun for the collection- So it seems his mother and sister basically forgot he existed til he was rich and famous and ripe for the picking. Then they decided to jump down, turn around, and pick a Bale forgotten. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-bale-arrested-for-assaulting-his-mother-and-sister/457404/56 "2008-07-25T12:38:55Z")
I’m guessing that he’s hoping the situation will reach some kind of Equilibrium. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-bale-arrested-for-assaulting-his-mother-and-sister/457404/57 "2008-07-25T12:50:36Z")
If Christian said “NO” that should have been the end of it. If his mother and sister went on about how he had money and why couldn’t he give his poor sister some, I can understand him going off the deep end. It is his money. He earned it. Nobody handed it to him on a silver platter. He is not obligated to help raise his sibling’s children in any way, shape or form. What he does with his own earned money is nobody’s business but his and the government. I wonder how much his sister helped him out throught the poor, starving actor years of his life. ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-bale-arrested-for-assaulting-his-mother-and-sister/457404/58 "2008-07-25T14:57:53Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] ETA: bad pun for the collection- So it seems his mother and sister basically forgot he existed til he was rich and famous and ripe for the picking. Then they decided to jump down, turn around, and pick a Bale forgotten. [/QUOTE] :smack: ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-bale-arrested-for-assaulting-his-mother-and-sister/457404/59 "2008-07-25T14:58:06Z")
Not to be argumentative, but since he’s had a pretty successful career from a very early age, I don’t think he ever had any “poor, starving actor years”. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2008, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-bale-arrested-for-assaulting-his-mother-and-sister/457404/60 "2008-07-25T15:25:17Z")
Well, that is pretty sucky. Yeah, he can probably afford it, but it’s his money. He can do whatever he wants with it. He’s depressed and not sleeping, he’s having marital problems, he’s under immense pressure from a successful film opening, and what he really needs right now is family bugging him for money. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-bale-arrested-for-assaulting-his-mother-and-sister/457404.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christian-bale-arrested-for-assaulting-his-mother-and-sister/457404.md?page=4)