Halle Berry's first husband reveals why marriage ended
The 58-year-old Oscar winner tied the knot with former Major League Baseball player David Justice, 59, in 1993 but they divorced four years later, and David admitted Halle's career and independence was a big problem for him.
Speaking on Matt Barnes' All the Smoke podcast, he said: "My knowledge and my understanding, my wisdom around relationships just wasn't vast. 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?
"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."
David – who said the couple didn't receive a lot of "negative attention until I decided to leave her in 1996" - claimed that Halle proposed to him after five months of dating and he accepted, despite having doubts.
He said: "She asked me to marry her after knowing me for five months. I said OK, because I couldn't say no. Who's going to say no at that time?"
"I don't know if my heart was really into it, but I didn't want to make her feel bad and say no, you know, or [if] I was just in the moment."
And, he blames her career and his lack of experience in relationships for the demise of their marriage.
He said: "We spent a lot of time apart because she was doing movies in this country, that country. And we honestly probably could have made it if I knew about therapy. If we knew about therapy, we probably could have made it.
"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."
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Halle Berry's first husband ended their marriage because she didn't 'cook and clean'. The 58-year-old Oscar winner tied the knot with former Major League Baseball player David Justice, 59, in 1993 but they divorced four years later, and David admitted Halle's career and independence was a big problem for him. Speaking on Matt Barnes' All the Smoke podcast, he said: "My knowledge and my understanding, my wisdom around relationships just wasn't vast. 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? "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." David – who said the couple didn't receive a lot of "negative attention until I decided to leave her in 1996" - claimed that Halle proposed to him after five months of dating and he accepted, despite having doubts. He said: "She asked me to marry her after knowing me for five months. I said OK, because I couldn't say no. Who's going to say no at that time?" "I don't know if my heart was really into it, but I didn't want to make her feel bad and say no, you know, or [if] I was just in the moment." And, he blames her career and his lack of experience in relationships for the demise of their marriage. He said: "We spent a lot of time apart because she was doing movies in this country, that country. And we honestly probably could have made it if I knew about therapy. If we knew about therapy, we probably could have made it. "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."
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He said this allowed him to relive parts of his Irish heritage, and Gibson became emotional as he spoke about Horner. "This film was a joy to make, and my mother was born in Longford so I was raised on this kind of music myself, so it was a real treat for me to explore this culture and the sound of it," he said. "In the Braveheart score, you can hear bits and pieces of old tunes that he borrowed from. He drew from a very rich source of music and poetry that's part of this country, as well as Scotland." He also retold a story about meeting three of the four Beatles at Abbey Road, where the score was recorded. The Scottish epic was mostly shot in Ireland after the Irish government lobbied and offered to supply 1600 army reserves as extras. Gibson said that while filming in Scotland was "fantastic", the ground was not firm enough for the big battle scenes. He said that then arts minister Michael Higgins, who is now Ireland's president, made the film possible. 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