Halle Berry used Instagram to respond to her ex-husband David Justice’s recent comments about their marriage as she celebrated her 59th birthday Thursday.
The Academy Award-winning actress shared photos from a tropical vacation with boyfriend Van Hunt, along with images of a birthday card from her children and a celebration cake.
“Phew…! cooking, cleaning and mothering,”
Berry wrote in her caption.
The post appeared to reference Justice’s Aug. 7 appearance on former NBA star Matt Barnes’ All the Smoke podcast. The retired Major League Baseball player reflected on his four-year marriage to Berry during the 1990s.
“My knowledge and my understanding, my wisdom around relationships just wasn’t vast,”
Justice said during the interview.
“So, I’m looking at my mom – and I’m a Midwest guy. So, in my mind, I’m thinking a wife at that time should cook, clean, [be] traditional, you know?”
Justice, who’s been married to wife Rebecca since 2001, continued his assessment of their relationship.
“Then I’m thinking, ‘OK, if we have kids, is this the woman I want to have kids with and build a family with?’ At that time, as a young guy – she don’t cook, don’t clean, don’t really seem like motherly, and then we start having issues,”
he said.
The former baseball player suggested their marriage might have survived with professional help.
“We probably could have made it if I knew about therapy. We never had any major issues like that. It’s just… because I was young and had only been in one real relationship before her.”
Justice and Berry were married from 1993 to 1997.
Berry later married singer Eric Benét from 2001 to 2003. She wed French actor Olivier Martinez in 2013 before they split in 2015.
The actress is mother to 17-year-old daughter Nahla with ex-boyfriend Gabriel Aubry and 11-year-old son Maceo-Robert with Martinez.
Berry has been dating singer-songwriter Hunt since 2020. Hunt revealed during a Today.com interview in June that he’s proposed to Berry.
Berry said the couple doesn’t
“feel like we have to get married to validate our love in any way,”
but they plan to marry “soon.”
