David Justice: Halle Berry asked me to "marry her after knowing her for five months"

Months into their marriage, "I’m looking at my mom, I’m a Midwest guy. So in my mind, I’m thinking a wife at that time should cook, clean, and I’m thinking OK, if we have kids, is this the woman I want to have kids with and build a family with? And at that time, as a young guy, she don’t cook, don’t clean, don’t really seem like motherly."

Eventually, "I realize this isn’t the person I wanted to spend my life with."

USA TODAY has reached out to Berry’s representative for comment.

Justice thinks the marriage could have been saved, he says.

"Honestly, we probably could have made it, if I knew about therapy,” Justice says. "It’s just that I, because I was young, had only been in honestly one real relationship before her. My knowledge and my understanding and my wisdom around relationships just wasn’t vast."

It bothers him that Berry didn't set the record straight after an abusive, unnamed boyfriend struck her in the head and punctured an eardrum, resulting in hearing loss, something she disclosed to People in 1996.

"She let the world think it was me," Justice says. "I thought she was dead wrong for that."

But he acknowledges he could have handled their split better.

"I look back on that situation, and I’m like, that girl really did love me. And I can see why she would be so mad at me. Because imagine if you really love somebody and they tell you they want to break up, and there’s nothing you can say to get them back. That had to have been tough on her.

"I didn’t ease out" of the relationship, he says. "Gone. I could have massaged that better."

Oscar winner Berry, 58, is in a long-term relationship with Van Hunt. Previously, she was married to Oliver Martinez (2013 to 2016) and Eric Benet (2001 to 2005). She has two kids: Nahla, 17, whose dad is Gabriel Aubry, and son Maceo, 11, with Martinez.

Justice, 59, has been married to wife Rebecca Justice for 24 years, the mother of his two kids.

Why would multimillionaire need to cook and clean? That guy sounds like a fucking idiot.

[quote] "I’m looking at my mom, I’m a Midwest guy. So in my mind, I’m thinking a wife at that time should cook, clean, and I’m thinking OK, if we have kids, is this the woman I want to have kids with and build a family with?”

It is horrifying that women were taken on like live in servants. I wonder what the reactions of boys would be if it were explained that their primary job in life would be working as domestics.

Halle Berry

David Justice

Only one of these people is a household name today.

I could see Halle 'lovebombing' her men and pushing to move it forward.

In terms of what he said about cooking and cleaning - I think that was a poor choice or words. He probably compared to other ball SAH wives, who manage the home and the kids and all the little shit that needs to be done while he's on the road 70% of the time for months.

These ball wives are NOT do a lot of cleaning - however, many may know how to cook well.

There's nothing wrong with wanting a SAH spouse of either gender if money is not an issue. Particularly with young kids at home.

She’s a psycho. Borderline personality disorder. A hit and run cunt who uses race and lies about her execs so one will attack the other so she gets full custody. She’s nothing but trouble. Anyone getting involved with her at this point gets what they deserve. Her behavior is well-known.

R3, they’re already told to apologize for having a penis. Give it a rest. He’s a black man. This is their culture. He wants a trad wife, which is in now.

The trash took itself out

Yeah Trad wives are in right now so shut up faggot. The hot new thing is regressive misogyny, you must not have heard. Straight men love their women submissive, servile, and without any means of escape due to total financial dependance, and lord knows if there's one thing every gay man loves it's blindly worshipping straight men (but only if they're sexist creeps who hate women).

R6, how do you know? Are you a doctor?

What a douchebag.

Who dug this creep out of the Z list ocean?

I saw her once during the Benet marriage - she looked great

[quote]That guy sounds like a fucking idiot.

I've always heard baseball players are the dumbest athletes.

Anyway, how unchivalrous of him to say all this shit. Halle still looks great btw and he looks like someone's old drunk uncle so bye!

In my day males were taught to be gentlemen.

This clown is no gentleman.

He beat her so badly she lost sight in her left eye. Not sure why he's talking about saving the relationship, unless he wanted her to stick around so that he could kill her.

[quote]R9 Yeah Trad wives are in right now so shut up faggot. The hot new thing is regressive misogyny, you must not have heard.

My sister was a trad wife for 20 years, though her husband made plenty of money so at least there wasn’t stress and strain in that department. But most American households cannot support two people (let alone a couple with children) on one salary.

I can’t imagine being a live in cook/cleaner/sexbot/nanny simply in exchange for room and board. But that’s the deal some wives are stuck with.

[quote] He beat her so badly she lost sight in her left eye. Not sure why he's talking about saving the relationship, unless he wanted her to stick around so that he could kill her.

Nope.

That was Wesley Snipes, not David Justice.

Oh my God, you're right, R18.

That woman has had some truly, TRULY shitty boyfriends.

Didn't another cause hearing loss?

She’s been married to a string of gorgeous, famous men. She always deeply professes her love and adoration and a few times has started a family pretty soon after marriage. Inevitably it never lasts more than a few years and she always claims it was the guy who was volatile and dangerous. And yes she is vengeful about using her money and influence to get full custody of the kids. She’s got a pattern.

Women are at a disadvantage in relationships where the ego of a famous man is involved.

He should have said no. He obviously wanted to be married to a regular girl.

C’mon! You don’t ask an actress in her prime to stay at home in order to cook, clean, & raise kids 24/7.

Halle has always been a trainwreck. This sketch from Chris Rock's show was the best:

Tradwives are not interchangeable with SAH wives.

Tradwives are a social media fabrication that don't exist. Tedious reels of 19th century domestic work that they've only done once for the video views.

[quote] He’s a black man. This is their culture.

Black mothers work outside the home more than any other race of women, so what the hell are you talking about?

Isn't it funny how unstable women like Halle Berry or Angelina Jolie never have a problem getting men to commit to them? This guy obviously had major reservations about marrying a "modern woman" like Halle Berry, but he just couldn't say no to her. Angelina Jolie made out with her brother and wore a vial of her lover's blood around her neck and Brad Pitt thought this was a woman he could start a family with.

So I actually read the comments and they seem sincere. Good call on him. And I definitely believe him about Halle asking him to marry her after only 5 months. She wasn’t A list when they was dating. I’m not saying she was looking for a bag, but she sure was trying to ensure some financial security as a working black actress.

"duh hart wunts whut duh hart wunts"

you can have it all.

a mommy who will cook your meals, a sleazy pornstar who will suck your 🍄 without complaint and a maid who will wash the skidmarks out your drawers, without complaint.

you can have it all.

But it will cost you a lot more than you think.

R6 = Olivier Martinez

She always goes after superficially attractive men, then inevitably turns on them. Crazy for someone that high-profile, but at least her hijinks are entertaining.

R29 A lot of that is true minus the race baiting. I have never known Halle to race bait.

the most beautiful woman in the entertainment industry can't keep a man, turns out they aren't worth keeping.

begging a little softball player for marriage?

um.

no.

Softball? What planet do you live on?

She had a baby at age 47?

Did she un-adopt one of her husband's kids? Or is that just manufactured divorce accusations?

Those one nomination, one win crew are a strange bunch. (i.e. goop)

R35 The bitch was damn near grown when they got the divorce. People need to grow up.

I googled pics of the woman he married, & she looks like she slid right off a pole and did the splits on stage, right in front of his seat at whatever gentlemen’s club she was working at.

Halle was GORGEOUS when they were married.

Of course he’s still talking about her. I’d talk about her too if I lost one of the most beautiful women in America, who was probably head over heels in love with him, just because he wasn’t smart enough to know how to keep her.

Google pics of when they were together. Halle looked absolutely, fucking angelic, & had a PERFECT face.

Damn, she was sooo pretty! It’s like I forgot how beautiful she was, until I saw those pics.

[quote] "It’s just that I, because I was young, had only been in honestly one real relationship before her. My knowledge and my understanding and my wisdom around relationships just wasn’t vast."

Translation: I was young & dumb & full of cum.

Why is he still talking about Halle? He’s been married to his current wife for almost 25 years.

R28 = Brynn Hartman

David is a homosexual.

Are we sure he's not a ...

the wife does have harsh angular (masculine) features and a straight bodytype

Wasn’t he an abuser?

That was Wesley Snipes, R45.

R46 That’s what Christopher Williams says because the black community thought it was him for years. I do think it’s Wesley because she has said he is fairly popular in Hollywood but she won’t name him. At the same time I’ve never heard beating his Asian girlfriends lol. Perhaps it’s Madonna/Sean Penn situation. Two strong personalities but the dude can’t handle his emotions.