“She didn’t cook: Halle Berry’s first man shoots against her

David Justice (59), the first husband of actress Halle Berry (58), talked about the amazing reasons for her separation around 30 years ago. Among other things, he complained that Berry had neither cooked nor cleaned – which was why he asked himself shortly after the wedding in 1993 whether she was the right partner for children at all.

The former baseball player said in Matt Barnes’ “All The Smoke” that he started to question the common future together with family planning five months after the yes. “My knowledge, my understanding and my wisdom in relationships were simply not big at the time,” he looked back. He took his mother as a role model and he was a “guy from the middle west”. That is why he thought at the time that a wife should “cook, clean and be traditionally”. He asked himself whether Halle Berry was the woman “with whom I have children and want to start a family”.

He also described: “She didn’t cook, didn’t clean, didn’t really look maternal, and then the problems started.” There were more and more differences between the spouses – also because of their aspiring career. “We spent a lot of time separately because it made films in this and that country.”

The beginning of marriage was apparently not a happy star. “She made me a marriage proposal after knew me for five months,” said Justice against his prominent ex-wife. “I said okay because I couldn’t say no. Who would say no at that moment?” Whether it was “really important to him”, he didn’t know. He just didn’t want to feel bad.

At that time he was just very young and had “just a real relationship” in front of Halle Berry, the ex-athlete reflected. Perhaps you could have saved your marriage if you had already used therapy back then, he further considered.

In 1997 the divorce finally followed. While David Justice has been married to Rebecca Villalobos since 2001, Halle Berry experienced more love flaps. Her second marriage to the singer and actor Eric Benét (58) failed in 2005 after four years, the third marriage with French actor Olivier Martinez (59) lasted only a few years. With him she has son Maco-Robert (11). Daughter Nahla (17) comes from her relationship with Gabriel Aubry (48).

Halle Berry has been officially lined with the singer -songwriter van Hunt (55) since autumn 2020 – she does not rule out a new wedding. In June 2025, the musician revealed in a joint interview with “Today.com” that he had already made a marriage proposal to her. With her answer, however, she still hesitates. “I was married three times, van once. We don’t feel that we have to get married to confirm our love.” Then she added: “I think we’ll get married because I should marry exactly this person from everyone I was married. And I have the feeling that we should marry – not because we have to, but because we want it. It is just an expression of our love.”