Halle Berry's turbulent life story!
Halle Maria Berry was born on August 14, 1966, in Cleveland, to a mother, Judith Ann, an Englishwoman from Liverpool, and a father, Jerome Berry.
Halle Maria Berry was born on August 14, 1966, in Cleveland, to a mother, Judith Ann, an Englishwoman from Liverpool, and a father, Jerome Berry, an African-American. Her parents divorced when Hali was four years old. The mother continued to take care of her and her two-year-old daughter Heidi on her own, moving to Bedford, a suburb where white people lived.
From an early age, she had an amazing beauty, which brought her the titles of Miss Ohio and Miss Teenager of the USA, and she reached her peak in 1986, becoming the first runner-up in the Miss America pageant. After that, she definitely decided to leave the television journalism studies she attended, determined to start a career in show business as a model. Her starting point was Chicago, and then she went to New York where she worked as a model for catalogs and could barely make ends meet.
One of the first acting auditions was for the role in Charlie's Angels. Although she didn't get it, producer Aaron Spelling told her not to give up on her dream of becoming an actress. Her first role came in 1989 in the series "Living Dolls", but she fell into a coma during the filming due to a drop in blood sugar. Although she was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, that did not stop her from realizing her dreams.
And while she had professional success, her private life was a real disaster because she constantly chose the wrong men. One of the ex-boyfriends, whose name she never revealed, allegedly beat her so much that she barely survived and has been hearing less in one ear since then.
She first married baseball star David Justice in 1992 but divorced after just four years. It was speculated that he physically abused her so much that she feared for her own life.
In 2001, she married jazz musician Eric Benet, with whom she was allegedly secretly engaged in 1997, but this marriage did not last long either. They officially divorced in 2005 after his cheating and unsuccessful treatment for sexual addiction, although she even wanted to adopt his daughter India.
In 2010, a decade younger Canadian model Gabriel Aubry entered her life, whom she met at the opening of the Versace boutique in Manhattan. Despite her great desire to have a baby, things did not go smoothly at first, so when she visited Oprah Winfrey, she admitted that she was constantly working on it, as well as that she had 334 negative pregnancy tests before she was happy with the good news. In March 2008, she gave birth to a daughter, Nahla.
After four years of living together, she and Gabriel Aubrey decided to separate, which he officially confirmed in early May 2010. At that time, Halle was already close with French actor Olivier Martinez. Although she shone with happiness with her new lover, a month later, a fight began with Gabriel for custody of their daughter Nahla, who filled the pages of the press for three years.
