Halle Berry’s ex-husband, David Justice, has opened up about their short-lived marriage while reflecting on what could have saved the relationship.
The former MLB star married the Oscar-winning actress in 1993 after a whirlwind romance, but the pair divorced in 1997.
Speaking on Thursday’s episode of the All The Smoke podcast, Justice revealed that while their union started in a “honeymoon state,” doubts soon began to creep in about whether Berry was the right partner to start a family with.
Admitting that he had little relationship experience at the time, Justice said he entered the marriage with traditional expectations shaped by his Midwest upbringing.
“In my mind, I’m thinking a wife at that time should cook, clean, [be] traditional. Then I’m thinking, ‘Okay, if we have kids, is this the woman I want to have kids with?’” he explained.
He noted that Berry “didn’t cook, didn’t clean, didn’t really seem motherly,” which led to early tensions.
Justice recalled that Berry proposed to him after just five months of dating, and although he accepted, he wasn’t certain his heart was fully in it.
“I couldn’t say no… I didn’t want to make her feel bad,” he admitted.
Their busy careers soon became another strain, as Berry’s acting projects kept her travelling around the world while Justice’s baseball commitments kept him on the road.
“We spent a lot of time apart… she was doing movies in this country, that country,” he said.
Looking back, Justice believes the marriage might have survived if they had sought professional help.
“We honestly probably could have made it if I knew about therapy. If we knew about therapy, we probably could have made it,” he reflected.
Berry and Justice first met in 1992 after she spotted him playing in an MTV celebrity baseball game and passed her number to him through a mutual acquaintance. Their whirlwind romance, however, ultimately could not withstand the pressures of distance, career demands, and mismatched expectations.
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Halle Berry’s ex-husband, former MLB player David Justice, says he left because he couldn’t see her as the mother of his kids:
“She don’t cook, clean, don’t really seem motherly” pic.twitter.com/eVhwvnhmUL
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