If a family is not a close-knit one, a successful member of that family can be seen as a threat to the rest of the relatives. Bale did not grow up well-to-do in England and has made a name for himself. If he’s estranged from his family and they want a piece of the “financial pie” why wouldn’t they stoop to the level of making false accusations? Any outcome would end with some money, I’m sure. Either they go to court and sue him for assault and pain and suffering, OR his people settle with them and that means still getting money.

Of course I am playing a little bit of Devil’s Advocate with you, because yes we don’t know him, BUT you also can’t honestly think that ALL victims are victims. People lie, people cheat each other, PEOPLE ARE SELFISH. that’s just they way it is. And it happens more than you think. Don’t immediately put your naive faith in the supposed victims. they need to be checked out just as much as the accused does. Accusation does not equal guilty. and that’s what’s wrong with the stupid people in our country…they don’t use the brains God gave them.

I’ve seen how this cycle goes. People rarely start out beating the shit out of a family member. It usually starts out with severe verbal assault, escalates into hitting that does not send someone to the hospital and then the next thing you know that person breaks a family member’s bone, beats the family member until s/he is bleeding, etc.

We don’t know Christian Bale. I don’t care how wonderful of a guy he SEEMS. It is VERY rare family members make something like this up.

And you never know with his mum and sis, he’s so successful (especially now) that they might want a piece of the pie. Money and success changes people and family is no exception so it’s easy to see mum and sis as a victim, but to play devil’s advocate I can also see that his mum and sis might be trying to get some press or money out of Bale due to his success with the Batman franchise…

So we’ll see as more unfolds….