Christian Bale at the Spain premiere of Dark Knight, July 24th, 2008. Photograph by Solarpix / PR Photos.

While they should be talking about Dark Knight and Heath Ledger’s apparently BRILLERS performance in it, everyone’s talking about the whole Christian Bale mess — how he was arrested for assaulting his MOTHER…. Bizarre.

The latest theory is that Bale’s sister asked him for £100,000 (circa $200,000) to help her support her three children. When he said no, she started dissing his wife — ultimately leading to the big confrontation. Here’s what The Sun has to offer:

Legal sources told The Sun the women said sister Sharon needed £100,000 to help her bring up her three children. They said Bale, 34, snubbed the plea and a row flared in his suite at the Dorchester Hotel in London’s West End. Welsh-born Bale was alleged to have “pushed and shoved” mum Jenny, 61, and Sharon, 41.

Both Jenny and Sharon are terribly upset over what happened. They did not want any publicity and the last thing they wanted to do was wreck his premiere evening. But they say he bullied them.

Sure, they “did not want any publicity” or to “wreck his premiere evening.” MY ARSE. Jealous much?

Christian seems like a good guy. He IS Batman, after all…. The CAPED CRUSADER! He’s intense and, reportedly, depressed — they say because of Heath Ledger’s death and the breakup of his marriage — yes, but he’s a good guy, foshizzle (even though I don’t know him. at all. just think he’s cute in an ERIC BANA HOTTTT sort of way. anyway…). He canNOT be liking any of the publicity. His mother and sister, on the other hand seem like WACK. JOBS.

I keep you POSTED, Gorgeouses!