Halle Berry Says Her Father Was Abusive

Halle Berry is opening up about her nightmare childhood in a candid and emotionally raw new interview.

She tells James Lipton during a taping of “Inside the Actor’s Studio” that her father, who passed away in 2003, was abusive.

“It was to date probably the worst year of my life,” she says. “He abused my mother and my sister constantly, and the hard part for me was that he never abused me.”

That, she says, resulted in a feeling of overwhelming responsibility.

“I was dealing with a lot of guilt because I saw my sister go through terrible beatings and I felt helpless and I felt like a coward because I didn't do anything,” she confesses.

But Halle overcame those feelings of helplessness to rise to a confident, Oscar-winning star who throws her weight whole-heartedly behind battered women’s charities.

Now four-months pregnant with her boyfriend Gabriel Aubry’s baby, Halle can’t hide her smile when the topic switches to her own bundle of joy.

“Sometime in March,” she says, glowing about her due date.

Quips Lipton, “I would just like to say, in passing, there’s nothing wrong with the name James.”

Though Halle has kept mum on whether it’s a boy or girl, she did tell “Extra” that she plans to have her baby take the last name of Aubry.

The full interview airs Monday on Bravo.

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uebernachten guenstig
February 25, 2010

i think there are a lot of women who are jealous of halley because she is beautiful. anyone who hasn’t grown up in a dysfunctional home would know nothing about it. who halley doesn’t want to be bothered with as an adult or if she chooses not to go to anyone’s funeral is her business. folks need to stop trying to tell her how she should be walking unless they had to walk in those same pumps.

but haley, since you had a sad upbringing try to make sure that your baby gets all the love she can from you and a stong PERMANANT male figure in her life. if she doesn’t get this, she will be telling her own sad story 20 years from now and dating/marrying abusive men, too.


harriet
October 8, 2008

I’M PROUD OF HALLE BERRY BECAUSE SHE HASA BABY GIRL WHAT IS THE BABY NAME AND THAT I READ THAT SHE WILL NEVER GET MARRIED WHY ISTHAT ISIT BECAUSE OF YOUR PAST RELATIONSHIP. GOOD LUCK IN YOUR NEW BABY GIRL AND WISH YOU NOTHING BUT THE BEST

SHAUN
March 18, 2008

To Halle Give It A Rest…where do you get your bs—-everyone knows Aubry most likely is the father even if done by in-vitro. Anyway, a paternity test can’t be run until Halle has the kid or hits her 3rd trimester—so get a grip and accept the facts instead of living in your dream world.

to halle give it a rest
November 9, 2007

carol’s said; I’m happy for her but please watch your money all ittake is for him to get relax.

carole
November 7, 2007

Do agree with the last posters Halle can do more than she does for domestic violence and let’s hope this doesn’t backfire on her too. Don’t know about the rumors about who the REAL babydaddy is and don’t care.

don't know
October 29, 2007

Halle can do more for domestic violence. While what she is saying is probably true and does a lot of work with the Jenessee Center since being court ordered there as part of the consequences of her hit and run/fleeing the scene of accident fiasco from awhile back which she acknowledges how she first involved in the agency in some article when promoting Perfect Stranger or X3, she still can do more for this hideous crime.

If she is doing this for drama because she has a movie that’s flopping drastically at the box office then shame on you like the suicide thing coming out every time in the past when you have had a movie coming out. If it is to genuine help someone good for you. But if she’s doing it make sound like she’s the only one who has worked through the situation of growing up in an alcoholic/abusive home with an absentee father shame on you.

You still can do more.

Halle can do more....
October 29, 2007

Also, you weren’t even at the man’s funeral, try repairing the relationship with your sister and quit mentally abusing your mother.

you weren't even at his funeral
October 28, 2007

Halle give the childhood bit a rest. Sorry you experienced that but why keep bringing it up and joking about ‘no beatings or domestic violence in your house’ on Tavis Smiley? You should be doing more for domestic violence than you do.

Why give the baby Aubry’s name when it isn’t his—-please!C’mon we all know it’s Eric’s when you did the old switcheroo at the sperm bank/in-vitro clinic.

halle give it a rest
October 28, 2007

I love Halle Berry and how shes gotten so far despite her obstacles .. YOU GO GIRL and congradulations on your baby

Shay
October 25, 2007
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