Halle Berryis ex -husband David Justice He admitted that he wondered if the Oscar winner was “the woman with whom I want to have children” before his 1996 division.
“I was young and I had only been, honestly, in a relationship before her. My knowledge and understanding, my wisdom around relationships was not wide,” said Justice, 59, during an appearance in Podcast “All the Smoke” On Thursday, August 7. “So I’m looking at my mother and I’m a boy in the middle west. So, in my opinion, I’m thinking that a woman at that moment should cook, clean.”
He continued: “Then I am thinking,” OK, if we have children, is the woman I want to have children with and build a family? “At that moment, as a young man, do not cook, do not clean, do not look really maternal, and then we begin to have problems.
Berry, 58, and the former Basketball Star of the Major League were married on New Year’s Eve in 1993. According to reports, the couple began to leave when Berry saw justice playing in a MTV celebrity basketball game and placed their number on a reporter who both knew.
The couple’s whirlwind marriage was a constant feed for the press in the mid -1990’s. Berry and Justice separated in February 1996 and finally ended their divorce in June 1997.
During his podcast appearance, the former world series champion confessed that he had a second thought about how he committed to Berry shortly after he “asked me to marry her after meeting -for five months.”
“I said well, because I couldn’t say no. Who will say no at that moment?” Justice recalled. “I don’t know if my heart was really, but I didn’t want to do it badly and say no, you know, or (yes) it was right now.”

David Justice and Halle Berry.
Jeff Kravitz/FilmmagicJustice acknowledged that the relationship of his and Berry reached the worst possible time because they were both building his career, which meant that they spent a long time apart.
“Honestly, we could probably have done it if we knew therapy. If we knew about therapy, we could probably have done it,” he said.
Use weekly He has contacted Berry’s spokesman for comments.
After his relationship with Justice, Berry married Eric Benét between 2001 and 2005 and then to Olivier Martinez -With whom shares the son Maceo-Robert-Del 2013 in 2016. Catwoman The actress welcomed daughter Nahla Ariela during her five -year relationship with Gabriel Aubryand has been with the musician They hunted Since 2020.
Hunt revealed during an appearance of June 2025 to NBC’s Today who still expected an answer after Propose to Berry. (The singer -songwriter married once before and has a son, but he has not publicly revealed details of this relationship.)
“Well, I’ve married three times,” he said Today. “Van has married once and, therefore, we do not hear that we have to marry to validate our love in any way. We do not.”
The actress added: “But I think we will marry just because, of the people I have been married to, this is the person I should have married. And I feel that I should marry -we are not because we feel that we have to do it.
Justice and his second wife, Rebecca VillaloboShare three children: David Jr., Dionisio and Raquel. (The retired player of the MLB and Villalobo tied the knot in February 2001.)