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Halle Berry used Instagram to offer a response to her ex-husband David Justice’s recent comments about their marriage as she marked her 59th birthday
“Phew…! cooking, cleaning and mothering,” Berry wrote in a caption to an Instagram post
Justice, the former Major League Baseball player, and Berry were married from 1993 until 1997
Halle Berry is celebrating her 59th birthday — and offering a response of sorts to her ex-husband David Justice’s recent comments that she “didn’t really seem, like, motherly” during their marriage.
Berry, who turns 59 on Thursday, Aug. 14, shared a carousel of photos of herself and her boyfriend Van Hunt on a tropical vacation, as well as a photos of a card that appeared to be from her two children and a snapshot of a birthday cake to celebrate the big day.
“Phew…! cooking, cleaning and mothering,” Berry wrote in a caption to her post. The caption seemingly referenced her ex Justice’s recent comments made during an Aug. 7 appearance on former NBA star Matt Barnes’ All the Smoke podcast, when the retired Major League Baseball player reflected on his four-year marriage to Berry in the 1990s.
“My knowledge and my understanding, my wisdom around relationships just wasn’t vast,” he said during that podcast. “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?”
“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,” Justice, who has been married to his wife Rebecca since 2001, opined during the interview.
The former athlete also said that he and Berry “probably could have made it if I knew about therapy” during their marriage. “We never had any major issues like that. It’s just… because I was young and had only been in one real relationship before her,” he said of the marriage’s breakdown.
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Halle Berry and David Justice
Following Berry’s marriage to Justice, the Academy Award winner was wed to singer/actor Eric Benét from 2001 to 2003. She tied the knot with French actor Olivier Martinez in 2013, but the pair split in 2015. Berry is a mother to daughter Nahla, 17, whom she shares with ex-boyfriend Gabriel Aubry, and son Maceo-Robert, 11, whom she shares with Martinez, 59.
Since 2020, Berry has been in a relationship with singer-songwriter Hunt, 55. Hunt revealed during a joint interview with Today.com in June that he has proposed to Berry. Although she said the couple do not “feel like we have to get married to validate our love in any way,” Berry said they plan to get married “soon.”
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