Last weekend, All The Smoke podcast had an interview with David Justice, the former pro baseball player and Halle Berry’s first husband. I hadn’t heard about or from Justice in many years, and he did not come across well in that pod interview. There was a lot of discussion about Halle and the reasons why they fell apart back in the 1990s. Justice said: “In my mind, I’m thinking a wife at that time should cook, clean, [be] traditional, you know? 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.”
Well, Halle didn’t say anything for several days after the pod interview dropped. I wasn’t surprised that she just didn’t bother with it, after all, it’s not like her ex-husband came across well, and basically everyone was like “wow, he sounds like such a douche.” Halle waited a second and then posted two amazing tweets. (I’m including a screengrab because I can’t embed it.)
— Halle Berry (@halleberry) August 14, 2025
The “Phew…! cooking, cleaning and mothering” is taking me out. She’s so funny. Halle is fifty-nine damn years old, how does she still look like that in a bikini? Anyway, David Justice’s loss, Eric Benet’s loss and Olivier Martinez’s loss is Van Hunt’s gain. He bagged a baddie who can truly do it all.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Cover Images, Halle’s Twitter.
- Halle Berry attends the “Mission Impossible – The Final Reckoning” red carpet at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 14, 2025 in Cannes, France.,Image: 999107560, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Olivier Huitel/Avalon
- The “The Phoenician Scheme” red carpet at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 18, 2025 in Cannes, France Festival de Cannes 2025 – Red carpet The phoenician Scheme – Halle Berry,Image: 1000826718, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Lionel Guericolas/Avalon
- 78th Cannes Film Festival – Jury Photocall Featuring: Halle Berry Where: Cannes, France Credit: David Niviere/Abaca Press/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
- Kering Women In Motion dinner at 78th Cannes Film Festival Featuring: Halle Berry Where: Cannes, France When: 18 May 2025 Credit: Alessandro Bremec/IPA/INSTARimages **UK, USA AND AUSTRALIA RIGHTS ONLY**
- Closing ceremony red carpet at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals Featuring: Halle Berry Where: Cannes, France When: 24 May 2025 Credit: Jerome Domine/Abaca Press/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
- HALLE BERRY WITH DAVID JUSTICE STOCK IMAGE. 1995. PICTURES /,Image: 547353745, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: WORLD RIGHTS – Fee Payable Upon Reproduction – For queries contact Photoshot – sales@photoshot.com London: +44 (0) 20 7421 6000 Florida: +1 239 689 1883 Berlin: +49 (0) 30 76 212 251, Model Release: no, Credit line: Nick Elgar/Avalon
- HALLE BERRY WITH DAVID JUSTICE STOCK IMAGE. 1995. PICTURES /,Image: 547353769, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: WORLD RIGHTS – Fee Payable Upon Reproduction – For queries contact Photoshot – sales@photoshot.com London: +44 (0) 20 7421 6000 Florida: +1 239 689 1883 Berlin: +49 (0) 30 76 212 251, Model Release: no, Credit line: Nick Elgar/Avalon
- DAVID JUSTICE AND HALLE BERRY STOCK IMAGE. 11 JANUARY 1996. PICTURE / URW,Image: 547439079, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: WORLD RIGHTS – Fee Payable Upon Reproduction – For queries contact Photoshot – sales@photoshot.com London: +44 (0) 20 7421 6000 Florida: +1 239 689 1883 Berlin: +49 (0) 30 76 212 251, Model Release: no, Credit line: Ron Wolfson/Avalon
Such a tone deaf interview. She is still gorgeous. He looks..,,,,,,,,,, speaking on a marriage over 30 years ago . Says a lot about his life now.
She also posted this on IG. Wherever they are it looks amazing and Halle looks fantastic! Imagine looking like a bloated mess complaining about Halle f@cking Berry. I can’t imagine his wife is thrilled that he is STILL talking about his ex wife.
Nothing kills the vibe like your partner needing you to mother them.
The perfect clap back is an art form and Ms Berry is a maestro.
🔥🔥🔥
Halle really didn’t have to respond because David Justice exposed that he was a terrible husband to her but this clapback was so good.
He wanted a maid. Halle don’t do that 💩.
Bootleg Males parading the 🌎 as Men have LOST THEIR 🤬 🤬 MINDS!
That was funny! Perfect response. I hope going forward that fool keeps her name out of his mouth.
Look, Halle is not a perfect person since we know that some of the mess that went down her ex-boyfriend who she had a kid with. That said, he’s high AF to think that the actress she was and how famous she was, he expected her to come home to cook, clean, and mother their non-existent kids? I swear. A Black woman I follow said it best, he wanted to humble her.
Enjoying, immensely, actors and sexpots in their youth like Halle and Pam Anderson throwing off the shackles of misogyny, embracing their true and authentic identities and boldly and unapologetically leaping into their NFTG eras.
This pro athlete marries a millionaire movie star and is surprised she doesn’t cook and clean? He had to have known that before he married her.
Also, how did this conversation even start? Did he bring up Halle, or was he asked about her? He couldn’t just say, “It was 30y ago, we were both young, we grew apart,” maintaining his current wife’s dignity as well as his own?
It is *amazing* to me and has been a revelation over two and a half decades to apprehend this is what a lot of men actually, subliminally, subconsciously expect. They pay lip service to the whole, sure, she should get to have a job if she wants one, up to her, (wow, thanks, it’s such a privilege to be gainfully employed, so as to pay the bills, it’s what we all dreamed of, not being homeless….) but they put the whole career girl thing in a totally separate compartment mentally from the expectations of what it will be like to have a family. Like, career girl is great so long as she’s paying *her* bills. Before you get married. Or before you have kids. After kids? If a woman still wants to prioritise her career? I mean, as more than a way to pay the bills? If her heart is in it…. Good luck to her, finding a man who supports that. Even if a man does support that, a lot of men really do expect the woman / now mum to sort out childcare, food, laundry, vacuuming, dog walking, dishwashing, play dates, holidays, etc…. Like, it’s almost as if they have a mental equation, if you wanted kids and a job, you want it, you got it. All of it. It’s like they’re exacting a weird kind of punishment for wanting both. Which is pretty twisted, when you figure women in that position aren’t asking for any more out of life than most men expect for themselves: a home life and a career. I mean. It’s pretty warped, but when you get past the PC rhetoric and platitudes, that’s clearly the unstated assumption for a lot of lesser dudes. Which sucks.
At 59, she’s hot and sassy. Great clap back to her visibly aging and unattractive ex. Is she the only way he can get attention now? Why not be classy and gracious to Berry, instead of slinging mud? Makes him look as trashy as he is.
I honestly don’t think he realized just how trashy he sounded as he was saying those things. He said that with his whole chest which tells me he just doesn’t get it. He didn’t want to recognize that he was married to THEE Halle Berry. I hope that seeing the general reaction to his statements enlightens him – at least slightly…
I really appreciate Halle’s growth as a woman and artist and business woman over the years. She grew up in a household impacted by domestic violence and she has been incredibly messy (sloppy sloppy sloppy) in her personal life. Her growth is inspiring. And yes, she is funny as fuck.