David Justice is speaking out about his split from Halle Berry<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
During an appearance on the All the Smoke podcast on Aug. 7, the former MLB player said that he and Berry realized they had different expectations of marriage, five months after tying the knot in 1993<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
“If we have kids, is this the woman I want to have kids with and build a family with?” Justice said. “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”<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
David Justice<\/a> is speaking out about his split from\u00a0Halle Berry<\/a>.<\/p>\n During an appearance on Matt Barnes’ All the Smoke<\/a> podcast on Thursday, Aug. 7, the former MLB player got candid about the issues he and Berry, 58, had in their marriage that eventually led to their 1997 divorce.<\/p>\n Justice, 59, shared that he and Berry were still in the “honeymoon state” until about five months after their 1993 wedding, when he began to consider having children with the actress.<\/p>\n “My knowledge and my understanding, my wisdom around relationships just wasn’t vast,” he said. “So, I’m looking at my mom \u2014 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?”<\/p>\n “Then I’m thinking, ‘OK, if we have kids, is this the woman I want to have kids with and build a family with?’ ” Justice continued. “At that time, as a young guy \u2014 she don’t cook, don’t clean, don’t really seem like motherly, and then we start having issues.”<\/p>\n According to the Atlanta Braves alum, the couple didn’t receive a lot of “negative attention until I decided to leave her in 1996.”<\/p>\n “She asked me to marry her after knowing me for five months,” Justice said, recounting the early days of their relationship, soon after they met in May 1992. “I said OK, because I couldn’t say no. Who’s going to say no at that time?”<\/p>\n Related: https:\/\/people-app.onelink.me\/HNIa\/kz7l4cuf<\/a><\/p>\n “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.<\/p>\n Justice \u2014 who later married Rebecca Villalobos Justice in 2001 \u2014 shared that he and Berry began to have even more differences, including when it came to their careers, before they decided to call it quits.<\/p>\n “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,” he said.<\/p>\n “We never had any major issues like that,” the father-of-three added. “It’s just… because I was young and had only been in one real relationship before her.”<\/p>\n Representatives for Berry did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.<\/p>\n Kevin Mazur Archive 1\/WireImage<\/p>\n Halle Berry and David Justice.<\/p>\n Berry, who is currently in a relationship with singer-songwriter Van Hunt<\/a>, has previously spoken out about her dating life \u2014 and comments that she “can’t keep a man.”<\/p>\n Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n While appearing on The Drew Barrymore Show<\/a> in February, Berry said, “I\u2019ve heard people say, ‘Something must be wrong with Halle Berry, she can\u2019t keep a man.’ Who’s to say I\u00a0want\u00a0to keep a man? I don\u2019t want to keep the wrong man. Like, I\u2019m not crazy, right? So when you find that you make a mistake \u2014 we all make mistakes. We have a right to say, \u2018Oh God, this was a mistake. Let me start again.\u2019 We have the right to do that.”<\/p>\n In June, Hunt, 55 \u2014 who went official with his relationship with Berry in September 2020 \u2014 revealed to\u00a0Today.com<\/a>\u00a0that he had popped the question to the star, although she hadn’t quite accepted the ring yet.<\/p>\n “I put out the proposal, and it\u2019s still on hold as you can see,” he told the outlet after having his first joint interview with Berry on the June 4 episode of\u00a0Today with Jenna & Friends. “It\u2019s just out there floating. You know, maybe you can encourage her.”<\/p>\n “I think we will get married just because, out of the people I\u2019ve been married to, this is the person I should have married,” Berry chimed in. \u201cAnd I feel like I should, we should get married, but it\u2019s not because we feel like we have to. I think it\u2019s something that we would like to do, just because we want that expression.”<\/p>\n As for when that would be, she simply replied “soon.”<\/p>\n Berry was previously married to Olivier Martinez<\/a> before\u00a0the two split in 2015<\/a>. Prior to her relationship with Martinez, 59, she was married to Justice\u00a0and singer\/actor\u00a0Eric Ben\u00e9t<\/a>. She is mom to daughter Nahla, 17, whom she shares with ex Gabriel Aubry, and son Maceo-Robert, 11, whom she shares with Martinez.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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