I’m surprised how long it’s been since we’ve heard news about Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry’s custody battle. Things have been relatively quiet since Halle confirmed her engagement to Oliver Martinez in mid April. Halle has made it clear through her actions in court (and with various happy family photo ops) that she’s looking to replace Gabriel with Oliver as Nahla’s father. She’s been working to push him out, and Gabriel has been pushing back to assert his parental rights. His latest move involves asking for a “substantial increase” in his child support from Halle, to $20,000 a month. He didn’t have the right paperwork when he went to court with his request so the judge postponed a ruling on it. It sounds like a huge amount to me, but I’m far from that income bracket. I think that if the tables were turned and we were talking about a mother making substantially less than a father this wouldn’t be an issue. (Or maybe it would. This is around the same amount that Melissa Etheridge’s ex gets for two children, she’s asking for more than that, and it sounded outrageous to many of you.)
Here’s more, thanks to TMZ. Radar also has this story, but they don’t have a firm amount on the support Aubry is asking for. As I usually mention in these stories, Radar gets their information from team Gabe and TMZ is team Halle.
Gabriel Aubry is asking the judge in his custody war with Halle Berry for a half a million bucks in attorney’s fees, and $20,000 a month in child support, TMZ has learned.
Gabriel was in court this morning, expecting to argue his case for the huge increase in child support, but the case was continued because the paperwork wasn’t filled out properly. Gabriel was extremely upset the matter was put off.
Sources tell us … Gabriel believes he’s entitled to the money because he needs a proper environment to care for 4-year-old Nahla.
As we first reported, Halle wants to move with the child to Paris, which would have a direct impact on Gabriel’s request for additional support.
[From TMZ]
During their split, it came out that Aubry made an estimated $700,000 a year working as a model. US Weekly claimed at the time, back in 2010, that Halle used to mock Gabriel and call him a “loser” for not earning multi-millions like she did. I don’t think this is about the money for Gabriel at all. He probably does fine on his own and doesn’t necessary need the extra child support from Halle. I think this is about him making sure that he’s asserting his rights as a parent, and that his daughter remains nearby. Some will call him greedy though. $20k a month is what K-Fed got for two kids and he had primary custody.
It’s customary in these type of cases for the richer parent to pay the other’s attorney’s fees. Halle Berry’s net worth is estimated at around $70 million and some reports claim she earns $16 million a year. Given the crap movies she’s been in lately, that’s probably no longer accurate.
Gabriel is shown picking up Nahla at school on 4-24-12. Look at him carrying her Hello Kitty bag! photo credit: Juan Sharma, PacificCoastNews.com. Halle and Oliver are shown at the beach with Nahla on 4-21. Halle is also shown with her friend at the mall on 4-27-12. I liked her hair better before! Credit: Osvaldo/FameFlynet Pictures
Aubry should hook up with Linda Evangelista, so they can roll around in their child support money together.
great idea!
Go Gabe.
Team Gabriel! Clearly it’s a bargaining ploy. If he needs to substantiate the sum, all he needs to do is bring up all the security concerns Halle uses as an excuse to take Nahla away to France. Let’s see: increased security, round-the-clock… ; )
Exactly. Go GA!!
Well, I’m actually still Team Aubry. Child support is a prerogative of the parent who makes less money, right? So if he’s entitled to it, he should grab it.
After all, I really do believe he would use it all on his child, which is more I can say I believe about Halle.
I agree!
Not only this, but you go into court with a number to negotiate down from.
Regardless, go Gabriel.
Amen, sister!
He needs to work on his haggling skills. Considering he lived with Halle as long as he did, I don’t know if he’s much better than she is, but as she’s shown herself to be such a consistent whack job, I hope the courts favor him more.
+1
Whatever he needs to do to cement his daughter’s presence in his life is fine by me. And if increasing child support is the way, than go for it all the way! But like @automndaze stated above, I believe it’s a starting negotiation point.
+1 more.
I agree, Team Aubry.
+1
Team Aubrey!!
+2
Is Halle wearing those fug sunglasses that Katherine Heigl wears all the damn time? Gross. To both the glasses and the person behind them.
Ridiculous.
Halle is probably worth around 60 mill.
Evangelista’s man is worth billions??
Gabe…ummm no, Halle may be rich but she notoriously leads a frugal lifestyle.
After the crap Halle has put this man through I say give it to him 🙂
Word.
I hope he gets it, too. Maybe she’ll stop with the frivolous custody claims once her feet are held to the fire. Also? She was the one concerned about the crazies seeking her out. Is she only concerned for her daughter at HER house? If not, then pay for the same protective services for when she is NOT at her house. Seems fair.
Spot on
I am not on Halle’s side at all, but if they share custody how does one get child support? Maybe I don’t know the rules here, but it seems if they have equal custody, shouldn’t they pay their own way? It is not like he has her more, or the other way around. I would of thought the parent who has primary custody would get child support and if they share neither does? can someone explain this? Lol 🙂
It all has to do with the child’s environment. When one parent makes significantly more than the other and they split up, the child will spend time in both households. The idea is to make the households as comparable as possible for the child’s sake.
Thank you! I was assuming that was why, and it does make sense. But sometimes I post things and then get ripped for it so I tried to post it so I wouldn’t look like a total moron. 😉 Haha. Appreciate you not saying in meanly @Autumndaze lol! 🙂
That’s because automndaze is one classy lady! True.
Child support is an actual calcuation based on guidelines from whatever particular state you are in. It is a mathematical formula, which factors in medical, daycare & school. If one parent makes considerably more than the other, they are going to have pay more according to guidelines. If Halle Berry makes 16 million/yr than 20,000/month really doesnt seem to crazy. Not to mention Halle has been taking Gabriel to court for one thing after another, including the child abuse claims that were found to be without merit, so asking for attorneys fees is well within his right and completely appropriate. Lawyers are NOT CHEAP! I bet his attorney charges anywhere from 400-800/hr, if not more, since its LA.
I work in family law and have been keeping tabs on this case all along! IMO, Halle Berry is a text book case of parental alienation…only its not really working!
I am team Nahla.
Also very doubtful that the judge would allow Nahla to move to France. I live in a community property state, and one parent’s experience of taking a job transfer was a nightmare of legal machination. The decree with which I am familiar stipulates that the children will live in one particular school district, as will the custodial parent.
I paid alimony and child support to my ex-husband on a 50/50 custody share for two children. The court is is gender neutral when it comes to support calculations. Halle should be admonished by the court for her frivolous claims against Aubry. As this case drags on, it will cost hundreds and hundreds of thousands if not millions. Been there.
Team Gabe all the way! I hope he gets more.
*sigh* That is one fine looking man. He’s well done of her and will make someone woman very happy. Go him. All these damn athlete baby mama’s take the dudes to the cleaner’s. About time a man took a woman (or tries) to the cleaner’s. Go Equal Rights!
I will never watch another Halle Berry movie again……not that there was a huge possibility of that happening with the crap movies she puts out. I can’t stand how she is damaging her daughter because of her jealous greedy heart.
Yes! Agreed. She really isn’t as a good as she thinks is! 🙂 Their sweet child always looks so much happier and relaxed with him. I don’t think it looks faked for the cameras at all either! 🙂
Golddigga!
Didn’t deserve her Oscar. Hasn’t been in anything decent in YEARS. Seems like an insipid “pretty girl”
Hope he gets a huge increase after what she has put him through. hope he gets his lawyers fees paid, too. Halle is a real nutcase, YOU GO GABRIEL
Truth be told he was the one who started it with the court, not halle. Halle is no saint, you don’t back a crazy person in a corner.
Halle started this when she left his name off Nahla’s birth certificate. He had to go to court to be named the legal father so he could have access to his child.
is he a complete moron? how did Halle “manage” to leave his name off the birth certificate? weren’t they together at that time? I can’t stand that jerk. in my book asking a mother for childsupport is just pathetic. but then again, he is a MODEL, don’t expect much from him except a good gene pool.
The mere sight of Halle now just makes me disgusted.
the level of halle hate in these comments is hilarious. it doesn’t even matter what the story is, the response is always the same halle=bad gabriel=good.
Everyone ripped into ethridge’s ex for asking for that amount, but somehow because it’s halle, it’s perfectly reasonable. if gabriel makes 700k a year, why on earth would he need child support? ethridge’s ex hasn’t worked outside the home in years.
Co-sign 100%. If this was any other man and any other woman people would be ripping him to shreds. Neither one of them has handled this thing well but she somehow gets the most criticism. The same people who were labeling him the highest paid male model and someone who didn’t need her money are now saying “Go Gabe”. If K-Fed is a loser than so is Gabriel no matter how cute he is.
I agree. I’m sure they both are no angels, but his site is women-on-women hating. Maybe really young girls are posting on here?
You new Ann? I hope he get’s a butt load per month. It’s about time a man gets his in these situations.
All that is very true, except that we know [or think we know] so much more about the Halle/GA situation.
or rather the emotions and future therapy bills caused by the alienation of a parent. Many of us have been on both sides of this situation growing up or with spouses sufferring this from their ex-spouses. This situation has been going on for so long and in a very public way that one can not help but have an opinion. And all the information paints Halle in a bad light or rather in a worse light than GA.
@Hmmm – male models earn a fraction of female models. It’s the only industry where females are paid huge %more than men. Their shelf life is less than that of female models. That figure in the article sounds about right for a top male model.
Comparing his earnings to Halle’s earnings does make him a K-Fed, even if he isn’t sitting at home waiting for child support cheque.
Your assumptions are inaccurate. Sure he makes 700k/yr. The court determines child support through calculation guidelines by income; then you have to factor in medical, daycare and school, so it gets a little more technical. It is a mathematical formula based on BOTH parents income. They arent just haphazardly throwing numbers around. So, if you factor in Halle making 16 million/yr, 20,000/month seems pretty equitable. It is about giving the child balanced support in both households. Halle has initiated 99% of the court proceedings, the child abuse claims were found to be without merit. Gabriel should ask for attorney’s fees considering he keeps being dragged back to court. I am not team halle or team gabriel…i am team nahla. Halle has clearly exhibited alienation tactics and it is sad. Nahla is the only one who is going to lose in all of this.
I work in family law and see parents everyday in their selfish pursuits. The damage is ultimately done to the child. They should settle and agree to do right by Nahla and co-parent. It really is as simple as that.
What’s with all the crying about ‘school, daycare, etc’??? Does anyone here really doubt that Halle is the one paying for Nahla’s schooling and health care? If Halle has medical insurance for Nahla–and she is currently enrolled in school (we’ve seen many pictures of Gabriel picking her up from school)–then why would he need money for that?
It sounds like he’s asking for the money so he can have a similar ‘lifestyle’ to Halle’s, which isn’t for Nahla at all. And I’m sorry, but a single man or woman making $700,000. a year doesn’t need $20,000. a month in childcare, especially if they’re ‘not’ the primary care giver.
@tforce: Agreed. And if you are familiar with family law, you also know that he who has the best attorney wins. Dragging this out in court will ream Aubry’s ability to earn his usual wages. You are also correct that in the end, the children lose. It’s exactly why I decided not to pursue support when granted full custody by the court, after years of paying alimony and support to my ex-husband on a 50/50 share.
@emma-theJPlover-
Nobody is crying over the school, daycare etc. These are all things that are taken into account when figuring out child support no matter who is paying what. It is just a matter of the law and child support guidelines. I dont know specifics of this case, just like everyone else on here. I am just trying to give insight into what goes on in the background when calculating child support. It isn’t just somebody asking for number, it doesnt work that way. If you make 16 million dollars a yr and share custody, according to a MATHEMATIC FORMULA that is designed by the STATE OF CALIFORNIA, 20,000 seems pretty accurate. get your facts straight before you go off about him making this and she makes that. It is not as simple as that. Have you ever been to court before for child support? Doesnt sound like it based on the ignorance in your response.
I think it’s great he can even ask. He wasn’t on her birth cert as the dad, and the whole point of him going to court the first time was to get his name on the birth cert so he would be legally recognized as her dad and not have to depend on the whims of Halle.
Whether or not his name is on the birth certificate, the first time they went to court the judge would ask “Has paternity been established?” If Halle denied him as father, a paternity test would have been ordered, and things would have rolled forward from there.
Frankly, I think Halle has been trying to alienate Gabriel from Nahla since that point. Just a passive-aggressive power play to try to show him she was the one “in charge” in the relationship.
Halle met her match. She used him for his sperm only. I knew that the relationship wouldn’t last and she would be rid of him as soon as she had the baby.
She couldn’t get Actor Michael Ealy “think like a Man” to go along with the program and figured she’ll get some dumb model.
Surprise, Surprise.
According to her interviews, she tried with Black men and went white so now what’s her problem?
It’s her, I always believed what her ex-husbands/boyfriends said about her. She’s Cray Cray and has some major issues.
I hate to say it but the public believed Halle was the victim when she dated or married Black men but now they are open to the idea that she’s the one with the problem
Go for it dude-crazy Halle can afford it. She’s already supporting grown up Olivier.
I don’t like Halle but i think it’s still too much. Considering that he has his daughter 15 days/month, that makes it more than 1,000 dollars per day to cater to her needs, protection, ect…And that despite his own contribution, since he too has his own money.
It’s seems too me that wether it’s Halle or him, they don’t spend 40,000 per month on one single child.
It’s exagerated. I am all for blaming Halle for her share of nastiness but i am first and foremost for Justice and balance.
If he needs $ 20,000 to raise his daughter, even in a top notch environment, that would means that this child’s needs amounts to $ 40,000 per month.
What kind of raising style is that for a former couple who never showed that type of over the top lifestyle with their daughter to begin with ?
The top level schools in Los Angeles are CRAZY expensive. Many cost far more than a year of college at your average school. Tens of thousands per semester. She is still very young, but I am sure she has a lot of expenses to pay for.
So ?
I dount those expenses are cut in two. One parent, probably the rich one pay the fee and again, i doubt this child who lived in rather normalcy since she was born suddenly needs 40,000 to lead the same lifestyle as before.
The deal is that the child (and/or former spouse, which he’s not, so it’s not in play here) is entitled to maintain the same lifestyle at both parents’ homes.
So when Halle has Nahla, if she’s eating caviar and drinking Pellegrino in a mansion, she is entitled to have access to same at Gabriel’s; not be eating Beanie Weenies in a 2 bedroom apartment in The Valley.
I agree it’s a ridiculous amount of money to people like you or me, but it’s certainly not unheard of, especially in California, NY, Palm Beach, and other wealthy places.
If you ask me 700.000 versus 70 million pounds is no contest.
I mean come on!If I had a crazy ex who is being spiteful and bent on separating me and my child,not to talk of get her a new daddy,then I will totally take her for all she has.
He is also asking her to pay his legal fees. Serves her right if you ask me. If she likes Courts that much then she can as well pay for it.
Gabriel was the one who brought the courts into first, not Halle. She is vindictive but he is not a saint either.
You keep posting this… please clarify. Do you mean when he went to court to get his name on the birth certificate, so that he would have legal rights to his own daughter? Or are you referring to something else?
So he makes enough money to comfortably care for his child all by himself but because he’s angry with Halle he wants her to pay him 20k per month in child support? . Can we agree they’re both immature?. Model K-fed.
Exactly.
The Court is not a tool for revenge. It’s a tool for Justice. It seems to me that the reason upon wich lie that figure is to maintain the SAME level of lifestyle that child had before.
Neither Halle nor Gabriel when they were together seem to live a lifestyle where they spend 40,000 dollars per month on their child.
Just because they separaterd shouldn’t mean that suddenly this child lifestyle has to rise just to punish Halle.
Feelings of revenge should never prevail on balance and justice when it comes to the Court.
Perhaps this is a way to counter her move to France.
Is Nahla’s security bad only when she is with Halle and NOT when she is with her father?
@ LAK
It’s mY feelings too and that’s why i think it’s wrong in a strictly Justice point of view as the Court isn’t there to be used as a revenge tool but to appreciate a situation and evaluate it with strict criteria that have nothing to do with emotions and that are done in the prospect of meeting and guarantee the same needs that child had before her parents separation, whatever the difference of wages they have…not less not more than she had previously.
The thing is i don’t beleive that Nhala needs that big amount of money, including for her security amounts during the 15 days she is with her father, the same way i don’t beleive that her mother spendf that same amount for her, but much less.
And if his wages is really 700,000 a year, then do the math, it still makes 55,000 per month. I don’t think his daughter, at this stage, requires 75,000 dollars for 15 days per month.
I beleive it is an attempt to hurt Halle by inflating his daughter needs and while i understand that aim as an individual, it’s not how the Court will operate, usedf as a revenge tool. It takes one situation, its spending, ect.. and guarantee the child to keep the same standard, not less, but not more either in the only pretense that one spouse wage is much more higher than the other one.
Hypocrisy:
If you have ever been to court on a custody or child support matter you would know that your statement that the Court is for justice and not revenge not revenge is untrue. The court is the place for revenge and not always justice.
I am both a lawyer and for the last year has been involved in litigation over my son. You would not believe what happens there. As a lawyer, I am completely shocked.
Nevertheless, Gabriel’s move here appears to be one of strategy and not greed. By hitting her where it hurts he is trying to get a negotiating advantage. My two cents.
Having been through Family Court not once, but twice; and having a mother whose been a Family Law Paralegal for longer than I’ve been alive, as well as a high school friend who works in DFS I can tell you that you are patently wrong: court is ABSOLUTELY the place people go for revenge/vengeance when stuff like divorce and custody issues arise.
There are things I’ve heard (no names, of course) that would curl your toenails and straighten your hair into a fright wig.
Kids get “coached” by one parent or another to claim abuse; opposing parties call for “psych evals” out of spite, then they argue that “Well, if I have to have one, so does he/she;” people move their new piece in with them and their children (when they have the kids); they fight over EVERY. LITTLE. THING.
Because they are hurt/angry/both and want to make the other person’s life as miserable as possible. It doesn’t make it right, but that’s the way it is.
Totally agree with above posters that you must be living in a fantasy land if you think courts, especially FAMILY COURTS, are for justince not revenge.
@ ‘Neither Halle nor Gabriel when they were together seem to live a lifestyle where they spend 40,000 dollars per month on their child’.
One has nothing to do with the other. Child support is not the figure you are expected to ‘spend on’ the child when in your care. It is a figure you expect to spend on everything in your life, i.e. mortgage for a bigger house than you’d need just for yourself; food and clothing expenses that you’d incur because of the child as opposed to just if you lived by yourself; vacation, travel, fun expenses you’d accumulate to provide the child with the same lifestyle the other parent does/could do, as opposed to what you’d spend if you were by yourself.
Since the child is from a two-household family, the level of lifestyle of the ‘better of’ is parent always the watermark for the expectation of equal lifestyle in the other parent’s care.
None of it means that Gabriel, or any other parent asking for an increase in child support, expects to spend that amount on the child per se. It is to be spent to ensure the child the care, safety, and lifestyle comparable to the ones provided by the ‘primary’ caregiver.
But on top of that, lets be honest, if Gabriel was the richer one and Halle the ‘poorer’ (yeah, it sounds funny in relation to their levels of income, but factually that’s how it is) she’d be FRICKING LIVING AT THE COURT she’d be there so often asking for constant increases in support, just to make his life even more miserable. That’s her psycho MO, and I have completely no sympathy for her.
@ Bing. I agree with you. Family Court is not about justice. It’s a place where judges wait out their time until they can move up in their career. It’s a place where a lot of money is made by attorneys, court ordered shrinks, evaluators (shrinks), social services, etc, etc. There are a lot of behind the door deals. The bank accounts and assets of parents are destroyed and the kids are traumatized by mandated schedules. I would advise couples with children to a) reconsider splitting. b) stay out of court. Draw up an agreement with your ex. It may be contentious but it will save all parties money and grief.
“Given the crap movies she’s been in lately, that’s probably no longer accurate.”
Dont’ know why, but that made me smile.
This could come back and bite Gabriel in the ass. Halle can use his demands and say he is using Nahla as a paycheck.
I’m not Team anyone but I think the last thing Gabriel woulld want to do is give Halle ammo to use against him whensje is trying to take their daughter abroad.
@WTF YEs.com!
Team Halle and Nahla.
The outpouring of support for this man as a god amongst men and Halle as this evil toad is tots unjustified and I peeps the hidden agenda.
Berry, take your girl and move away from everyone and dump Olivier. You in danger girl.
Try working.
Golddigger wtf k- fraud… Loser
The claim that Gabriel is asking for $20,000 per month was leaked by Team Halle, so how do we know it’s true? Gabriel may be asking for substantially less for all we know. This may be another one of Halle’s mud-slinging tricks where she’s trying to make Gabriel look bad by leaking an inflated amount. After all her baseless accusations about Gabriel in the past, I don’t trust one word that comes from Team Halle’s sources.
Fair enough, if she expects him to pack up his life and move to France to be near his daughter. Halle and her Beau are both multi millionaires, its not like they can’t afford it. Either quit bitchin’ or stay in America and save some petty cash.
Actually, even $20,000 may not go far. Just renting acomparable place nearby could easily eat that up, or extra security because of mom’s fame/delusions/take your pick. Her dragging him into court etc. so often may also have an impact on his income simply because he is less available for jobs. It really doesn’t seem outlandish when the other parent is rich and famous and the less rich and less famous parent needs to keep up enough with living arrangements and travel and staff for that reason alone. Of course if he were the only parent he could live very differently, but having to mesh with Halle’s activities does incur extra expenses. He also may not have a steady income, what he makes per year may be much more variable especially as he ages. I don’t know how steady Halle’s yearly income is, that depends how what she’s done with her assets and how her expenses compare with her steady income that can be relied on in future years. But that’s for a judge to decide.
He should go for it. He is a baby dada and must enforce his rights. Also, Halle must pay his legal fees since she is so fond of dragging him to court all the time.
good for him!!! go gabe!!!!!!
This story is biased. It’s not “clear” that she wants OM to “replace” GA as Nahla’s dad and that’s a crappy thing to say. We don’t know what happened between them, but GA has upped his asking price to $50K/ mo. That’s more than what Linda E. is asking for. It looks to me as though when she didn’t come back to him, he decided to make her life miserable, like some men tend to do. Maybe they both have behaved badly, but I have not seen or heard anything that amounts to her being a bad mother. Why her custody is being challenged sounds like a money move to me. GA needs to get off his ass and get back to modeling. Just because someone is worth millions does not mean they should pay ridic amounts of support/alimony, etc. Halle seems frugal and I’ve not seen vulgar displays of wealth by her or GA, it seems like they try to keep their daughter living as normal as possible. Why ask for this kind of money? Retaliation, greed, jealousy and laziness. GA is a good-looking jackass, he could still be modeling or trying his hand at acting. He wants to be a full-time daddy and he wants HB money to pay for it. Her previous relationships tell me that she can spot signs of trouble earlier and she got out of the relationship. Sorry, but when men get angry at you they will call you ANYTHING! Nothing is off-limits. This guy wants Halle back and if he cannot have her, he damn sure wants her money and access to her personal life. This did not get ugly until it was clear she wasn’t interested in getting back with him. Before that, he wasn’t making accusations, claims or planting stories to make her look unstable. I will say it over and over, money makes some people behave like jerks.
It amazes me that some people will twist the truth, deny and/or co-mingle the facts, pull stuff out of thin air just to try to get their misguided points across.
From what we’ve all seen, GA does not need to plant any stories about Halle being unstable. She does all that all by herself. She plants stories about him, but because she is blinded by hate, spite and vengeance, they usually backfire and instead of injuring his public perception, show her to be a total jealous, hateful, vicious nut-job.
Just like this littel gem you just planted, that he now wants ’50K a month’. I wonder where you’ve read that? In what court documents? Or are you just part of her inner circle, and one of those ‘sources’ who specifically troll the net and plant crap like that in hopes it will gain tracking on the web, and thus turn from fantasy into reality in peoples’ minds?
Halle is the one who brought the media into the case, thinking that the public would be sympathetic. She has a victim mentality. She claims that all of her splits with men/husbands were the fault of the ex. She takes no responsibility for her actions. This is the same woman who ran away from a car accident she caused, otherwise known as “hit and run”. It is indicative of someone who is childish and self-centered. Halle also needs to be reminded that she is half wh.te. Her claims of victimization by Aubry because she is “6lack” do not ring true. Also, using the 1% theory with her daughter is crazy. Race as a weapon against the father?
Her daughter has lighter skin coloring than my children who are mixed race but not “6lack”. My kids have green eyes, brown skin and light brown curly hair. But since they’re European, they are wh.te. 1%, my a&&!
I was shocked when she said she believed in the one drop rule since that was something racists said back in the day to imply people who even had black parents weren’t “pure”. It was disgusting then and even more so now.
When I look at any picture of Nahla with her father, their affection towards each other is so genuine. Children are so guileless and really pick up on a person’s love and sense of peace. Nahla is truly a daddy’s girl.
Halle should be thankful that the father of her child wants to be a part of her life as much as possible. I was never so lucky. My biological father abandoned my mother before I was born and I didn’t have a father until I was 5 years old when my mother met and married a wonderful and loving man. Even though I had an amazing father who I will always refer to as “daddy”, the psychological affects of that initial abandonment are very real in my life.
I hope Gabriel uses whatever means possible to be an active presence in his daughter’s life, even if it means making sacrifices with his career and personal relationships. I don’t know if Halle will do the same.
So true. I’ve seen the same can’t tell you how it warms my heart he wants to be part of her life. I hope it’s genuine and he isn’t using her for a paycheck. I wish people would stop using children as accesories or weapons.