Besides just being one of the most talked about movies of 2009, Precious has opened up the doors of abuse and has made a way for people to not be ashamed to speak out about it. We know the abuse that Halle has gone through personally, but now she has decided to speak on the abuse that she saw her mother and older sister go through as a child.
In the past, Halle Berry has refused to talk about the beatings meted out to her mother by her father, Jerome Jesse Berry, who left her family in Cleveland, Ohio, when she was four. But she has said a boyfriend once hit her so hard she is still largely deaf in her left ear.
Berry said she and her elder sister, Heidi, were still recovering from witnessing the violence inflicted on their mother, Judith, a retired nurse who was born in Liverpool.
“I saw my mother battered, and could not do anything to stop it,” she said. “My father was tyrannical, lashing out at her for no reason. I felt the effects that had on our family — I’ve experienced what these women have gone through.”
She said her mother was still working out why she took it for so many years. “That is a deep question, and I am not sure she will ever come up with one answer. I have one answer to anyone in a similar situation — get out.”
Berry never forgave her father, a hospital porter, even as he lay dying with Parkinson’s disease in 2003. He sold his account of their estrangement to a tabloid “for a pack of beer and cigarettes,” Berry said.
She wondered if her parents’ relationship had affected her past romances.
She said: “I never had to run to a shelter, but I did choose the wrong partners. Not always good men. Luckily, in recent years, I have been smart enough to hit the door when violence even becomes a possibility. That is something I will not tolerate.”
Hopefully, more people feel the need to share their story whether it be your neighbor or another celebrity. People that are in abusive situations need to know they are not alone and that they can get out because there is hope.
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ayla 12/16/09, 11:51:AM
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Souljagir 12/16/09, 11:51:AM
I love Halle and good for her! These two cent men are bitter out here. I don’t know what else to say I grew up with a ragging violent at times alcoholic and it was rough! I wouldn’t put any verbal, mental or physical abuse on anyone.
lulu 12/16/09, 11:56:AM
I LOVE LOVE HALLE BERRY,1 OF THE BEST IN THE BUSINESS
Tropical English 12/16/09, 11:57:AM
Bossip,
This quote is YEARS old. Slow news day. I guess the next story you’ll run is “Whitney finally confesses her drug problem” Bossip, you are not TMZ or Media Take Out. You’re stories are stale, stolen and old as hell. Halle B. has always spoke on this and the very exact quote was on essence.com from years ago! Get some new stuff.
Dumbazzess…
pinky tuscadero 12/16/09, 11:58:AM
This is OLD NEWS!!!…. I have known about this for appprox. 20 years
hugh betcha 12/16/09, 11:59:AM
please , maybe miss halle should look in the mirror and ask herself how many people she has emotionally abused…including her own mother…be easy miss “monster’s ball” some of your people in chicago know who you really are, not who you pretend to be…………….
Keyz 12/16/09, 12:00:PM
Wesley Snipes used to abuse her!
rose by any other name # 9304026339482056536™ 12/16/09, 12:03:PM
Chicago.. wtf? its abusive and bad people all over the world . Im glad she wont take that kind of crap and i know i wont either!
KeepNit2Real 12/16/09, 12:06:PM
Wesley Snipes need to get his asz WHUPPED! Beating on Halle like that…
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See Who Hit Halle 12/16/09, 12:08:PM
This is so old. Please let us know which boyfriend beat dat azz
Janae 12/16/09, 12:22:PM
Halle looks alot like her mom. That’s a sad life experience. I’m glad I’ve never had it. Hopefully, all of those abusive days are behind her.
Shelie 12/16/09, 12:28:PM
lol. Halle don’t remember her father beating nobody at 4 yrs old. she is full of it. She just don’t like her pops because hes BLACK.
aleximaq 12/16/09, 12:30:PM
How many times is she gonna bring this up?
Shelie 12/16/09, 12:31:PM
Its not about Hallie finding wrong men..
Its about Hallie not being able to keep a god man because SHE IS CRAZY!!!..
Everybody say she a straight up NUTCASE!!
she is well know to be mentally ill.
JoVah 12/16/09, 12:32:PM
She said: “I never had to run to a shelter, but I did choose the wrong partners. Not always good men. Luckily, in recent years, I have been smart enough to hit the door when violence even becomes a possibility. That is something I will not tolerate.”
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Good for Halle. Run like hell women. Nobody deserves to take abuse from any man. Regardless of race.
MosHateD 12/16/09, 12:36:PM
This is Old News…Halle needs to become an Advocate for Domestic Violence & move on….Really Rihanna didnt make us tierd of hearn about this Shit???
Darkesthourgla ss 12/16/09, 12:39:PM
I heard about this ages ago, but Halle is now in a better place in life that’s all that matters.
oh please 12/16/09, 12:39:PM
wow!!! she really needs to shut up, I’m sure that whole experience, being in a abusive home has lasting effects. Could explain why men always leave her running for the hills, she’s crazy, emotionally unstable ask C. Williams, and the new baby daddy.
Jamaicangal 12/16/09, 12:42:PM
Wow all the support and understanding for Halle being a victim of physical abuse by a Wesley Snipes. Where was this understanding and concern when Chris beat the s— outta Rihanna. I guess it because Halle is an african american woman and Rihanna is from the lowly “third World Caribbean”. I hope 2010 brings some sense and compassion to bossip readers especially the so call females. Hope Chris gets some help after his latest tirade we can all agree he does have anger issues. Dont let him be like Halle father.
Mock 12/16/09, 12:43:PM
hugh betcha
please , maybe miss halle should look in the mirror and ask herself how many people she has emotionally abused…including her own mother…be easy miss “monster’s ball” some of your people in chicago know who you really are, not who you pretend to be…………….
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Please do tell of the things she did in Chicago because I know most of us Mid-Westerners are kind of messed up in the head. I think it has something to do with our parents who migrated from the south and were treated pretty roughly by the white community
This some Shhh.... 12/16/09, 12:45:PM
Shelie
12/16/09, 12:28:pm
lol. Halle don’t remember her father beating *****ody at 4 yrs old. she is full of it. She just don’t like her pops because hes BLACK
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I was thinking the exact same thing.
Mock 12/16/09, 12:46:PM
Meant to say “grandparents”
GG 12/16/09, 12:46:PM
Yes it was Wesley Snipes, this is why who choses to only date Asian woman, because they are so passive and will do whatever a man tells them to do.
Darkesthourgla ss 12/16/09, 12:51:PM
Why wouldn’t Halle remember her father beating her mother? That’s something that you don’t just sweep under the rug and his being black has nothing to do with her resenting him or a reason for him to beat her mother down.
Somali Ninga 12/16/09, 12:51:PM
bossip this is old news…
Caramel Cat™ 12/16/09, 12:52:PM
This is hella old, but I heard the guy that hit her that hard was Wesley Snipes way back in the day…
Darkesthourgla ss 12/16/09, 12:59:PM
I don’t know. I hear that Asian women have tempers but I guess that’s another stereotype too. I don’t think their all pas sive, certain ones I guess.
black folks use to keep it real 12/16/09, 12:59:PM
So many men sweat her but she was not able to keep a husband to save her life.
Can’t just be all the men.
Eric did not abuse her he had an affair.
Everyone gives certain people (especially in black America)a pass and they figure they can get away with doing or say anything. No one ever got any of these men stories of Halle. america light is right no need to question her.LOL!!!
Its6amHoGetOut, 15 more days before I leave you forever and this becomes the most boring blog on the net. 12/16/09, 01:00:PM
Dont worry what these b*tches in here say Halle, youre still the finest woman on earth and my fiance says youre the “one” person I can cheat with one time. Hers is Johnnie Depp. I agreed but not really…………….
black folks use to keep it real 12/16/09, 01:01:PM
no offense but her father did not abuse her it was her mother so she never spoke to him again even on his death bed.
No heart
yep seems like her type!!!
Another day 12/16/09, 01:04:PM
Tired of hearing the one about this, does she have a project coming out soon and what did she do that made him knock her deaf? Because we hear Halle is a hot *ss mess on the low but since nobody told her we know she assumes we cant get past her beauty.
GOTTICKA 12/16/09, 01:07:PM
i been smokin 5 packs a day of Pall Mall longs eva since da War of Black Souls and Liquid Sunshine. i’m 5 years old. what yo vice Old Whiskey Woman?
holla 12/16/09, 01:11:PM
while it is wrong and i never condone it…some women are dumb tricks….met a chick who said she likes her man to take charge, smack her around abit but not too often….wtf kinda sh!t is that?! Says she hates soft dudes, so im thinking spanking when u stroking that azz, she was like nah, slapped, hair pulled, talked down 2…i was like err aight cool, hold on my mom on the other line…ill hit u back later. Never talked 2 her crazy azz again. Met another chick like that some years later also, talking that same smack about hitting her n being a man. That aint being a man, i dont like no one hitting me regardless of gender so i dont hit anyone. If its a dude then i’d retaliate but a female, walk away, if u got a stank attitude, run away from her.
OLD_WHISKEY 12/16/09, 01:16:PM
Child you to yung to overstand my vice. I been walkin this path fa too long. I like to indulge the liquid spirits at the end of the 5th dusk, and entertain MY PEOPLE at the height of its impact. its MY vice with no reservations or hidden agendas. GOTTICKA, i would never stand in your path to denounce your vice. its your vice. this is my vice ever since i was a Guardian of the Banyan Vines and all the voodoo Street Talk!
janet 12/16/09, 01:17:PM
hi, if any woman say that a man have a wright to hit a woman then they have to be born a man …..
2dimplzs 12/16/09, 01:22:PM
I remember A LOT of things from when I was 4 years old so I don’t know why people are acting like it’s impossible to remember anything at that age! I started school at that age and I have very vivid memories of that entire time period, I remember who my teachers were, I remember my school, the songs we sang in class, the bus I caught with my siblings……come on now where have you people been? I totally believe that she remembers her father beating her mother. Yall act like she was 8 months old instead or something!!!!
macko 12/16/09, 01:22:PM
Are you people kidding me?
Physical abuse is not to be fobbed off no matter who is doing it to whom.
And I hope she keeps talking about it forever.
Lets see one of you who are so dismissive, have your sister, mother, daughter or anyone you love be batted around and see how cavalier you become. To bad if you’ve heard it before!!!
She should be applauded for letting women know that staying with a man, any man, who puts his hand on you is non-negotiable, EVER.
I am just sorry if you’ve heard it before, but too many of you think its okay as long as its not happening to you….till it happens to you.
…and it makes little difference if Halle or any woman can’t keep a man, for whatever reason.
If you dont want the woman or think she is flakey, or wacky…leave her, but keep your damn hands to yourself.
Physical abuse is never an option and no one WOMAN OR MAN SHOULD PUT UP WITH IT.
You go Halle, Tell it again and again.
Damn shame 12/16/09, 01:26:PM
Gots to be some reason why ALL Halle’s men left her she must be paying YT good money to stick around and pull the bags! has to be cheaper than child support
GOTTICKA 12/16/09, 01:27:PM
Old Whiskey….u look like u lyin to me….cause u seem to be lookin different see?…..than da box dwellers see?……yo vice is now my vice see?…..you see, i’m 5 years old of another time…….which exceeds you, see?
Mizzy 12/16/09, 01:27:PM
Damn……… David Justice was really batting out them RBI’s in the early 90′s…….. Really Bad Injuries.
OLD_WHISKEY 12/16/09, 01:29:PM
GOTTICKA…..what’s my name? what’s my name?
GOTTICKA 12/16/09, 01:33:PM
oh shoot! i’m is old now! what you do to me Old Whiskey Woman? change me back now! i don’t want to be old like dis! change me back now! i be good!
OLD_WHISKEY 12/16/09, 01:35:PM
overstay yo stay, and this what happen child! i takes ova! now i’m only 5 years old!
OLD_WHISKEY 12/16/09, 01:42:PM
FRUITION!
Allergic to Ignorance and Stupidity 12/16/09, 01:42:PM
I can remember my father beating my Mother at 4 years old, so I definitely believe Halle can recall it as well. When you see something horrible and scary, you do not forget it and especially if it keeps happening.
It is go easy for people to blame the victims, if Halle is mentally unstable you can rest assured it is because of what she saw as a CHILD. But people always blame the victim…
GOTTICKA 12/16/09, 01:55:PM
i want my Mama! i want my Mama! i want my Mama! u seen my Mama? tell her it’s GOTTICKA!
afro centric 12/16/09, 02:00:PM
How can halle berry be black if her mother is White? Stop following the one drop Rule americans till this day Slave owners owns You Only in the states
OLD_WHISKEY 12/16/09, 02:03:PM
i’m is gone stay 5 years old, child! i’m is unique now, child! i’m is gone WIN now, child! cause i WILL it to be now, child!
rose by any other name # 9304026339482056536™ 12/16/09, 02:03:PM
How the hell you gonna say mid-westerners are messed up in the head.. Im a midwesterner and my head is on very straight! They say the same thing about Southerners.. who cares as far as im concerned half of the whole world is fu-ked up! What the hell does being from the south have to do with anything.. most of our grandparents and some parents were from the south and migrated all over the US. Cali, NY , everywhere~!!
OLD_WHISKEY 12/16/09, 02:05:PM
MY NAME IS OLD WHISKEY WITH NO RESERVATIONS OR HIDDEN AGENDAS, AND THIS IS MY VICE!!!!!