Halle Berry’s life wasn’t always Hollywood glamour and awards. Her father departed when she was four, dividing her family. She informed the Reading Eagle in 1992 that her father hadn’t contacted her since that early departure.

Berry shrugged. She later regretted not dating him due to his alcoholism. Berry told NPR’s “Fresh Air” podcast that she processed his 2003 death through counseling and spirituality.

My childhood was abused. She said, “I had an alcoholic father who was verbally, emotionally, and physically violent.” “He did his best, but he failed me and my family badly.”

According to E! News, the actor began helping with Los Angeles domestic violence organizations after witnessing childhood abuse. Berry told the Jenesse Center how her spouse kicked and assaulted her mother. “She remained too long and her children—my sister and I—saw too much.” Read about the Oscar-winning actor.

Halle Berry was exposed to prejudice early in life when her mother moved the family from Cleveland’s inner city to the suburbs, where crime was lower but most children were white.

Berry told People that her race caused the bullying. “Because my mother was white and my father was Black… we was called Oreos and names, and kids just didn’t understand, so we were different.

We were often teased.” The celebrity said she compensated by working hard at school, becoming a newspaper editor, class president, and cheerleader. “I was constantly striving to prove that I was as good as the other white classmates,” she said.

Berry was eventually elected prom queen, but no one believed she could win without stuffing the voting boxes. The star later told The New York Times that it was “sickening” how much she sought her peers’ acceptance. Berry was co-prom-queen with her blonde runner-up. I learned. No dancing bear.”

Halle Berry struggled after leaving home to become a model. Her mother taught her independence, she told People. Berry’s mom refused to pay $1,300 in rent when a problematic roommate left their Chicago apartment. “She made me realize I had to drown or swim,” the actor said. “I got autonomous after that.”

Berry told People that she ran out of money in New York after taking acting classes. Three months later, she was broke. Berry was furious after her mother refused to send her money again, so they didn’t communicate for a year.

“Giving up was never an option,” the actor said. “Watch me. I’ll solve this.” Berry refused to leave New York, even after sleeping in a homeless shelter. “Shelter living helped me figure it out until I got a waitressing job. “Then I bartended,” she said. “Until I figured that out.”

“Living Dolls,” a 1989 spin-off of “Who’s the Boss,” gave Halle Berry a break after months of struggle. She had no idea that one bad day on set would result in a week in a diabetic coma and a life-changing diagnosis.

I needed energy but couldn’t get a chocolate bar. “I didn’t know what was wrong,” she told the Daily Mail. Berry fainted and was hospitalized a week later. Doctors told her she had diabetes and needed daily insulin shots as soon as she understood.

The actor remembered being informed he could lose his legs or vision. “I’m petrified.”

Berry has discussed her health concerns since the outbreak. “I feel at risk,” the “Monster’s Ball” actress told Variety in 2020. “My quarantine and bubble are really stringent.” Berry said she injured three ribs while filming “John Wick 3” due to her diabetes.

Halle Berry has been rumored to have lost 80% of her left ear’s hearing when a boyfriend punched her hard. Berry refused to name him but told People in 1996 that it was “someone well-known in Hollywood” and she escaped immediately.

“There were skid marks,” she says. “Never before or since,” Berry said it wasn’t abusive before that. She requested The New York Times to clarify that this was a one-time incident with a guy she was dating and that she left after he hit her. “I hate being seen as a submissive, beaten woman.”

David Justice, her first husband, is upset because people think it was him. “For so many years, there has been this cloud upon the guys who were acquainted with Halle back then,” he told People in 2015. “David Justice never hit her, period.” Christopher Williams, her ex-boyfriend, accused Wesley Snipes instead.

Halle Berry told People that she met David Justice at an MTV celebrity game in 1992 and married him a year later. Sadly, they divorced in 1997. “We both acknowledged we’d made a mistake with our marriage,” Justice said.

Berry later said the separation hurt her. She considered suicide and once took her two dogs to her car to asphyxiate herself. The actor told Barbara Walters that she felt like someone was warning her, “Girl, don’t do it,” as she sat there waiting for it to happen.

Berry told Parade (via Reuters) that voice was her mother’s. “I was sitting in my car, and I knew the gas was coming when I got an image of my mother discovering me,” the celebrity said, imagining her mother’s response.

“She gave so much for her children, and ending my life would be selfish.” Berry vowed to “never be a coward again” as she rediscovered herself. That pledge sustained Berry through her next high-profile breakup.

In “Die Another Day,” a James Bond stunt went awry. “It’s a part of film history, really,” Halle Berry told Vanity Fair. According to The Telegraph, Berry needed eye surgery when debris hit her in a scene where Pierce Brosnan’s James Bond shoots down a helicopter.

She was transported to a local hospital, where a 30-minute procedure saved her. One specialist said her irritated cornea was lucky.

For Vogue, Berry recalled the scene where she emerges from the ocean. The actor said “we tried on so many bathing suits” and thought “it would maybe, because it was in a Bond movie, wind up being an iconic scene.”

Berry joked that frigid water was her toughest challenge. This Bond girl was terrible. She liked Jinx like Bond, she said. I was grateful to be a Bond girl like that.

In 2003, Robert Downey Jr. shattered Halle Berry’s arm during filming a scene. The injury occurred during a discussion scene while filming “Gothika,” a supernatural thriller set in a psychiatric facility.

Berry told David Letterman, “It was something of a fluke,” Showbiz Cheat Sheet reported. “The stunt coordinator wasn’t there since it wasn’t a stunt; nobody was in danger.”

Although Downey Jr. acknowledged the incident publicly, the “Catwoman” star was still furious with him for not reaching out to her. She thought he wasn’t sorry enough.

“He didn’t even send flowers,” a Berry source told the National Enquirer. She won’t speak to him in town. Contact Music reported his brief apologies. “It was an accident,” the “Iron Man” actor said. I did everything to clean my side of the roadway. Best wishes.”

In 2002, R&B artist Eric Benét confessed to infidelity and entered sex addiction rehab, ending Halle Berry’s second marriage.

I cheated. Out there. “It’s a betrayal,” the musician told People, denying sex addiction. “Her mother suggested rehab to save the marriage.” After 35 days in the program, the pair reconciled but couldn’t overcome Berry’s distrust.

Benét claimed that he would have done anything to rescue the marriage. “Halle came into the relationship with her difficulties and I came into the relationship undoubtedly with my issues,” he said, blaming the media for escalating the situation. “It was like dumping gasoline on a hard-to-control fire.”

We went to sex rehab after a year. “I wish I had gone then, but I was putting everyone’s needs before myself,” Berry told Parade, citing Reuters, explaining how her despair after her first divorce had prepared her for Benét’s divorce.

“If I hadn’t gone through the first breakup and made that pledge to myself, this would have leveled me. I would have entered moving traffic.”

Halle Berry’s engagement with Gabriel Aubry produced a daughter but ended publicly. Berry attempted to take Nahla to France, TMZ alleged. In 2012, Aubry fought Berry’s then-fiance Olivier Martinez and suffered “a cracked rib, bruises to the face and wounds that required stitches,” according to the Los Angeles Times.

The model said Martinez jumped him after their Thanksgiving Day lunch fight. “It all happened so fast, so suddenly,” Aubry told the courts.

Despite Berry’s parental objections, Aubry fought for child support in court. The actor said to the court he had used racist insults and lightened and straightened their daughter’s hair, according to AZ Central.

Berry claimed that Aubry was rejecting Nahla’s Blackness. According to TMZ, Aubry received $16,000 a month from his celebrity ex despite racism allegations. Berry successfully argued that this costly child support charge was unreasonable in 2021, halving it.

Halle Berry has spoken out about her Hollywood racism. “I struggle for roles,” Berry told The New York Times in 1995, adding that executives on “Silence of the Lambs” and “Indecent Proposal” hadn’t even let her audition.

“A Black woman would transform the movie.” She also pursued a park ranger film job. Berry was shocked and disgusted by the studio’s weak rationale. “But this is my opponent’s thinking.”

Berry thought the tide had changed after being the first black woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress. “I was always a Black woman first and yet that had a bad connotation,” she told Barbara Walters in 2002, frustrated with the profession.

“I feel like I’ve won.” She regrets her Oscar triumph 20 years later. In a V magazine interview, she lamented that no Black woman had won the prize since. “It shows us there’s still work to do.”

According to E! News, Halle Berry married Olivier Martinez in France in 2013 after vowing never to marry again after her marriages to David Justice and Eric Benét. She divorced again two years later.

“We move forward with love and respect for one another and the shared focus of what is best for our son,” the couple told People. “We wish each other happiness.” According to the Daily Mail, the legal battle was still ongoing years after their joint statement, suggesting the situation was more contentious.

Berry discussed her troubled love life in a 2017 ET Online Q&A. “I’ve learned to deal with three broken marriages, which hasn’t been simple, especially when there are children involved,” she said, adding that her major priority was now being a mother.

“We go in there with that hope, so when it falls apart it feels like a huge failure and a huge disappointment,” the actor continued, revealing that she often felt a lot of guilt over her relationships.

“I’ve endured much,” Berry claimed that each marriage taught her valuable lessons. “Thanks,” she said. It’s been tough. My life’s been hard.

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