During a recent interview on the YouTube series House Guest with Scott Evans, RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 8 winner, Bob the Drag Queen, stopped by to share some fun stories, and he did not disappoint with the tale about his friend Charlize.
“I was once at a party that Charlize Theron invited me to,” Bob said. “We were just talking, and then she pointed at a group of women, and she goes, ‘That’s my mom.'”
“And I said, ‘Oh my God, that’s your mom?’ She goes, ‘Yep, that’s my mom.’ You look the same age. She was like, ‘What?’ I was like, ‘Your mom and you look the same age.'”
Bob added that he’s not one to hand out fake compliments, so he was being genuine when he told The Old Guard star about the strong resemblance she shared with her mom despite their age difference. But as much as Bob insisted, Charlize just wasn’t buying it.
There was only one way to settle this in Charlize’s mind, so she called her mom over to where she and Bob were standing. But as her mom was walking over, Bob noticed that it was a completely different woman than who he thought Charlize was pointing to in the group.
“A different woman walks over, who indeed looks like her mother,” Bob continued. “A woman who certainly looks a solid 20 to 30 years older. I thought she was pointing at a different woman, so now what am I gonna do? Now, her mom’s walking up to me. Am I gonna go, ‘No, no, not you! You do look older than her! I was talking about that much younger-looking woman. You could be her mom twice over.'”
Bob said Charlize and her mom have a fun relationship, so when she called her over, she said, “Bob is trying to say that you look younger than me…that we look the same age. And her mom goes, ‘Oh my god, thank you!’ And I was like, ‘Yup, that’s it. Y’all basically look the same age.'”
As the conversation went on, Bob continued to shower Charlize’s mom with compliments. “I said, ‘Yeah, you look amazing. You look so much younger than you really are. Congratulations.’ And then I ran into [Charlize] later at the party and I said, ‘Charlize, I thought you were talking about that woman.’ Charlize goes, ‘Oh, we are the same age. We’re like the exact same age.’ And then she goes, ‘Wait, you weren’t talking about my mom? Oh, this is delicious! I’m going to tell her.'”
Bob quickly left the party before Charlize and her mother could confront him, but he remembers the actor being “elated” to playfully burst her mom’s bubble.