Halle Berry’s ex-husband David Justice admitted that he questioned whether or not the Oscar winner was “the lady I need to have children with” earlier than their 1996 cut up.
“I used to be younger and I had solely, truthfully, been in a single relationship earlier than her. My information and my understanding, my knowledge round relationships simply wasn’t huge,” Justice, 59, defined throughout an look on the “All of the Smoke” podcast on Thursday, August 7. “So, I’m my mother and I’m a Midwest man. So, in my thoughts, I’m considering a spouse at the moment ought to cook dinner, clear.”
He went on, “Then I’m considering, ‘OK, if we have now children, is that this the lady I need to have children with and construct a household with?’ At the moment, as a younger man, she don’t cook dinner, don’t clear, don’t actually seem to be motherly, after which we begin having points. I’ll say this, we by no means had any points about any ladies, different males.”
Berry, 58, and the previous Main League Baseball star received married on New 12 months’s Day in 1993. In accordance with reviews, the couple began relationship when Berry noticed Justice taking part in in an MTV celeb baseball recreation and slipped her quantity to a reporter they each knew.
The couple’s whirlwind marriage was fixed fodder for the press within the mid Nineties. Berry and Justice separated in February 1996 and finally finalized their divorce in June 1997.
Throughout his podcast look, the previous World Collection champion confessed that he had second ideas about getting engaged to Berry shortly after she “requested me to marry her after understanding me for 5 months.”
“I stated OK, as a result of I couldn’t say no. Who’s going to say no at the moment?” Justice recalled. “I don’t know if my coronary heart was actually into it, however I didn’t need to make her really feel unhealthy and say no, , or [if] I used to be simply within the second.”
David Justice and Halle Berry. Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
Justice acknowledged that his and Berry’s relationship got here on the worst attainable time as a result of each have been constructing their careers, which meant they spent numerous time aside.
“We truthfully in all probability may have made it if I knew about remedy. If we knew about remedy, we in all probability may have made it,” he stated.
Us Weekly has reached out to Berry’s spokesperson for remark.
Following her relationship with Justice, Berry was married to Eric Benét between 2001 and 2005 after which to Olivier Martinez — with whom she shares son Maceo-Robert — from 2013 to 2016. The Catwoman actress welcomed daughter Nahla Ariela throughout her five-year relationship with Gabriel Aubry, and has been with musician Van Hunt since 2020.
Hunt revealed throughout a June 2025 look on NBC’s At present that he was nonetheless ready for a solution after proposing to Berry. (The singer-songwriter was married as soon as earlier than, and has a son, however has not publicly disclosed particulars of that relationship.)
“Effectively, I’ve been married 3 times,” she identified on At present. “Van has been married as soon as, and so no, we don’t really feel like we have now to get married to validate our love in any approach. We don’t.”
The actress added, “However I feel we are going to get married simply because, out of the folks I’ve been married to, that is the individual I ought to have married. And I really feel like I ought to, we should always get married, but it surely’s not as a result of we really feel like we have now to. I feel it’s one thing that we want to do simply because we would like that expression.”
Justice and his second spouse, Rebecca Villalobo, share three youngsters: David Jr., Dionisio, and Raquel. (The retired MLB participant and Villalobo tied the knot in February 2001.)
