David Justice is opening up about the real reason his marriage to Halle Berry ended.
The 59-year-old former MLB player appeared on Matt Barnes’ All the Smoke podcast on Thursday (August 7), where he reflected on the issues that ultimately led to their 1997 divorce.
David said the pair were still in the “honeymoon” phase for the first five months after tying the knot in 1993, until he started thinking about having children.
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“My knowledge and my understanding, my wisdom around relationships just wasn’t vast,” he said. “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?’” he continued. “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.”
“She asked me to marry her after knowing me for five months,” he said after they met in May 1992. “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,” he added.
He also said their busy careers kept them apart, with Halle often on location filming in different countries.
Looking back, David believes they might have lasted if they had sought therapy.
“We honestly probably could have made it if I knew about therapy,” he said. “We never had any major issues… it’s just because I was young and had only been in one real relationship before her.”
Halle previously addressed public comments about her love life, saying on The Drew Barrymore Show, “Who’s to say I want to keep a man? I don’t want to keep the wrong man.”
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