Halle Berry’s ex-husband David Justice admitted that he questioned whether or not the Oscar winner was “the lady I need to have youngsters with” earlier than their 1996 break 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 pondering a spouse at the moment ought to prepare dinner, clear.”
He went on, “Then I’m pondering, ‘OK, if we’ve youngsters, is that this the lady I need to have youngsters with and construct a household with?’ At the moment, as a younger man, she don’t prepare 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 girls, different males.”
Berry, 58, and the previous Main League Baseball star bought 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 superstar baseball sport 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 Sequence champion confessed that he had second ideas about getting engaged to Berry shortly after she “requested me to marry her after figuring out 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 dangerous 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 had been constructing their careers, which meant they spent a number of time aside.
“We truthfully most likely may have made it if I knew about remedy. If we knew about remedy, we most likely 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 In the present day 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.)
“Nicely, I’ve been married 3 times,” she identified on In the present day. “Van has been married as soon as, and so no, we don’t really feel like we’ve to get married to validate our love in any means. We don’t.”
The actress added, “However I believe we’ll get married simply because, out of the folks I’ve been married to, that is the particular person I ought to have married. And I really feel like I ought to, we should always get married, however it’s not as a result of we really feel like we’ve to. I believe it’s one thing that we wish to do simply because we wish 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.)
