This star's parents dealt with some mental and physical health issues, according to facts from her past via PeoplePill. When Bonham Carter was five years old, her mother, Elena Propper de Callejón, suffered a nervous breakdown. It took her three years to recover, and, afterwards, she decided to become a psychotherapist. Now, Bonham Carter pays her mother to read her scripts and give opinions on the psychological behavior of her characters.
Five years after Callejón recovered from the nervous breakdown, Bonham Carter's father, Raymond Bonham Carter, was diagnosed with acoustic neuroma. He had an operation to remove a tumor, but there were complications. He suffered a stroke, was half-paralyzed, and passed away in January 2004. When Bonham Carter was working on The Theory of Flight in 1998, she studied her father's movements and mannerisms, in order to play Jane Hatchard, a character in a wheelchair and with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
