Halle Berry’s ex-husband, David Justice, has spoken candidly about their brief marriage, revealing what he believes might have salvaged 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, David Justice shared that while their union began in a “honeymoon state,” he quickly began to question whether Berry was the right partner to start a family with.
Admitting he had little relationship experience, David 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 said.
He noted that Berry “didn’t cook, didn’t clean, didn’t really seem motherly,” which led to early tensions.
David Justice recalled that Berry proposed to him after just five months of dating, and although he accepted, he wasn’t sure his heart was fully in it.
“I couldn’t say no… I didn’t want to make her feel bad,” he admitted.
Their demanding careers further strained the relationship, with Berry’s film work taking her across the globe while Justice’s baseball commitments kept him travelling.
“We spent a lot of time apart… she was doing movies in this country, that country,” he said.
Looking back, Justice believes professional help could have changed their story.
“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.
The two first met in 1992 after Berry spotted him playing in an MTV celebrity baseball game and passed her number to him through a mutual acquaintance. Despite their fast-paced romance, distance, career pressures, and mismatched expectations proved too much for the marriage to survive.
