Halle Berry Has A Terrible Track Record, What Went Wrong With Her Men?

Eric Benet 2001-2005

According to a source close to Benet, despite the story that his cheating ruined their marriage, she actually deserves some of the blame:

“He has always been painted as the villain — the sex addict who broke Halle’s heart,” the insider says. “She had a major part to play in their problems, too, and Eric feels as though she should acknowledge that.”

Another big issue with the Benet relationship is that Halle claimed she took her stepmother role seriously but has been perceived as abandoning those duties post-divorce:

While they were married, it was reported that Berry had adopted Benét’s young daughter India, who lost her mother in a car accident when she was just 15 months old. (She’s now 24.)

“I’m all [India’s] got as far as a mother goes. It feels as if she’s my own,” the actress told an interviewer while married to Benét. “I don’t think anything’s going to prevent us from having a mother-daughter relationship. We’re very close, and I will always be there for her.”

Following the divorce, the mother-daughter relationship seemed to quickly dissipate. In 2006, Benét told The Post that Berry no longer saw his daughter. “Halle used to insist she loved India, though she hasn’t seen her and has barely communicated with her in years, and not because I’ve stopped her,” he said.

A Berry friend says the situation wasn’t straightforward.

“Her divorce from Eric was very acrimonious and as much as she hoped to stay in India’s life, it just didn’t work out that way.”

Gabriel Aubry 2005-2010

A friend of Berry’s told the Post the pair had a stormy relationship where neither would back down in a fight:

“It was a case of two ‘alphas’ in a relationship, each wanting their own way and not being prepared to compromise,” the source says. When Nahla arrived, “they were both smitten with her but they grew more and more distant from one another. The arguments continued and they knew it wasn’t the best environment to raise a little girl in.”

SMH… Which leads us to that ugly Thanksgiving fight in 2012….

Did y’all know the whole beef was kicked off at a school play???

Both parties claimed that the other had instigated the vicious fight. Aubry was charged with misdemeanor battery, but in court papers, the model claimed that Martinez had taunted him the previous day, while the warring family was watching Nahla’s school play.

“I wish I could beat the s - - t out of you right now,” Martinez was alleged to have said. “You’re lucky we’re in a school right now. We’re going to take Nahla right now and you’re not going to follow us.”

Aubry claimed that Martinez was furious at the custody ruling, which meant that he and Berry were forced to stay in LA, instead of moving to France in hopes of avoiding the paparazzi.

“You cost us $3 million,” Aubry alleged that Martinez said. “When you see the judge, you’re going to tell him you’re going to Paris or I’m going to kill you.”

Martinez insisted that Aubry attacked him, unprovoked, and although both parties initially sought restraining orders, no charges were filed and a child-custody arrangement was finalized just days after the brawl.

Crazy just crazy right?

At this point this is pre-marriage and pre-Maceo so Halle had to have known Olivier had some serious issues… Her friends say YES.

“Halle was devastated after the fight,” a friend reveals. “She rushed Nahla into the house so she didn’t see her dad and Olivier acting like wild animals. She knew that both Gabriel and Olivier had hot tempers, but she was furious with them for reacting in such a juvenile way.”

While Berry blamed Aubry for instigating the brawl, she was still “mad” at Martinez in the aftermath. “She felt that he could have handled it in a different way — called the police, walked away,” the friend adds. “She has a pretty hot temper herself, but violence is the one thing she will not tolerate.”

So why did she tolerate it? Because obviously she kept Olivier around. Should she have cut all ties then and there?

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Olivier Martinez (married 2013-2015)

While Martinez — who is best known for the 2002 movie “Unfaithful” and starred with Berry in 2010’s “Dark Tide” — was “delighted” to become a first-time father, an insider says, parenthood merely fueled existing tensions in the increasingly volatile relationship.

“Halle was the primary breadwinner — and for a proud Gallic man, that was an issue. Being known as ‘Halle Berry’s husband’ really started to grate with him. On the flip side, she thought he should be more grateful for his lifestyle, and more supportive.”

Martinez’s ‘explosive’ temper was evident in January, when he used his toddler son’s car seat to push an employee at Los Angeles’s LAX airport while the family made their way through a paparazzi swarm. The worker is now suing the couple for $5 million and Berry, according to the insider, was “incensed” by her then-husband’s inability to control his emotions.

SMH… This wasn’t the first time he was violent — should Halle maybe have learned her lesson the first time? Also all this talk about Halle outearning her men has us wondering if maybe she needs to aim higher and date someone in her own tax bracket.

Is Olivier feeling emasculated Halle’s fault though? No right?

Also there are some indications this divorce could go really left. We’re hoping there is a mediator involved because with Olivier’s temper we’d hate for this to get any uglier…

And while the former couple said they “wish each other nothing but happiness” in a statement, there’s evidence to the contrary.

Despite what legal sources insist is an “iron-clad” prenuptual agreement, which was drawn up to protect Berry’s $70 million fortune, Martinez and Berry have filed individual divorce petitions, with both citing “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for the split.

The pair have also appointed notably aggressive divorce lawyers: Berry hired Stephen Kolodny, who has represented Mel Gibson and billionaire Kirk Kerkorian’s ex-wife Lisa Bonder Kerkorian, while Martinez has retained Laura Wasser, whose celebrity client roster has included Tom Cruise and Britney Spears.

“There are a lot of issues to be ironed out,” an associate of Martinez’s tells The Post. “Olivier is determined to be a very involved father to his son, and he’s prepared to fight tooth and nail in court if it gets to that.”

So do you guys see a pattern here? First, if you pay attention to the dates it seems like Halle doesn’t give herself much of a break to heal and reflect. Secondly, it seems like Halle lets her temper and anger make the bad situations even worse. Especially when kids are involved cooler heads need to prevail.

So do you think Halle should just get a cat if she starts feeling lonely next time? Just saying…