Halle Berry appeared to jokingly respond to her ex-husband David Justice after he claimed that he “decided” to part ways with the award-winning actress because he felt she did not possess the qualities of a mother.
As previously reported by Face2Face Africa, Justice, 59, touched on his marriage to Berry, 59, during an August 7 appearance on Matt Barnes’ All the Smoke podcast. Justice and Berry married in 1993 before they parted ways in 1996.
“My knowledge and my understanding, my wisdom around relationships just wasn’t vast,” Justice said, per Page Six. “So, I’m looking at my mom — and I’m a Midwest guy. So, in my mind, I’m thinking a wife at that time should cook, clean, [be] traditional, you know?” the former baseball star added.
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“Then I’m thinking, ‘OK, if we have kids, is this the woman I want to have kids with and build a family with?’ At that time, as a young guy — she don’t cook, don’t clean, don’t really seem like, motherly, and then we start having issues.”
Berry seemingly responded to Justice’s comments in an Instagram post on August 14, which was her birthday. The Monster’s Ball actress posted a photo carousel of her vacationing with her boyfriend, Van Hunt.
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The photos include Berry wearing a yellow bikini and smiling for the camera, while another shows her chilling on a daybed with Hunt. In another photo, she is seen holding a glass of wine with her toes while she relaxes near the sea. One of the slides additionally shows her enjoying a coconut and laughing, while she’s seen holding an envelope with “MOM” written on it alongside a drawn heart in another shot. The final photo is of a chocolate cake.
“Phew…! cooking, cleaning and mothering,” Berry jokingly captioned.
After her divorce from Justice, Berry later went ahead to marry singer Eric Benét. Following their split, she married Olivier Martinez. The Oscar-winner shares a 17-year-old daughter with her ex Gabriel Aubry, and an 11-year-old son with her ex-husband Martinez.
In a September 2024 feature on Marie Claire, Berry said that her current beau Hunt was the first man she fell “madly in love with” before intimacy.
“It was the first time I was madly in love before I had sex,” she said. “That has never happened to me, ever. Talk about one of those life-changing, beautiful experiences. It was magical, just magical.”
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