Halle Berry recently shared insights into the duration of her relationships. On October 7, the Catwoman star appeared on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast, where she reflected on her past romantic experiences and highlighted the unique aspects of her current relationship with singer Van Hunt.
According to Berry, her relationship with Hunt represents a huge milestone. “This is the longest relationship I’ve ever been in my whole life,” she noted, emphasizing the importance of their four-year mark. “I can’t get past three years. We celebrated when we hit four years like we had been married 20 years; that’s how big it was for me personally.”
Halle shares how Van Hunt brought calm and stability into her life, marking a major personal milestone in love
Since they began dating in 2020, Berry, 58, acknowledged that both she and Hunt, 54, felt apprehensive about reaching the three-year milestone, fearing a potential breakup. “We were both scared,” she admitted. “He was waiting for the shoe to drop, and I was waiting to drop the f***ing shoe. Because I just can’t get past that.
It’s been such a relief, like, ‘Okay, yes, I can do this relationship thing.’” Berry expressed her admiration for her boyfriend, describing him as her “person.” She stated, “[He’s] calm and he’s what I’ve been dreaming of, searching for, needing.”
The actress explained that her previous relationships typically ended around the three-year mark because they were flawed from the outset, a realization that only dawned on her when she reached that milestone. “There was something about it that felt wildly familiar, but I realized that I had just gotten into things for all the wrong reasons,” she revealed to Shepard.
“It always became clear to me what those wrong reasons were at about three years. But because I got into this thing with Van in a different way, that feeling never came because I didn’t get into it for the wrong reasons.”
She also highlighted a key difference in her dynamic with Hunt compared to her past partners. Previously, she felt compelled to be the one who “made it happen,” but with Hunt, he was the one who “showed up.” “I thought, ‘I could not do this.
I didn’t want it.’ I was gonna live alone, be single forever, just raise my kids, do my job, and then he came when I wasn’t trying to manipulate it, I wasn’t trying to make it happen,” she explained. “He just showed up. He was chosen for me.”
As a mother of two, Berry shares a 16-year-old daughter, Nahla, with ex Gabriel Aubry and an 11-year-old son, Maceo, with ex-husband Olivier Martinez. In August 2023, Berry and Martinez reached a child support agreement nearly eight years after their divorce announcement.
The agreement includes joint legal and physical custody of their child, with Berry agreeing to pay her ex $8,000 a month in child support, plus an additional 4.3 percent of any income exceeding $2 million. According to court documents obtained by USA Today, Berry is also responsible for covering her son’s private school tuition, extracurricular activities, therapy, and health insurance.
However, the following year, Berry alleged that Martinez had postponed their agreed-upon co-parenting therapy sessions to vacation in France. Court documents filed in Los Angeles and obtained by The New York Post indicated that Berry claimed her ex-husband “has effectively unilaterally decided to take ‘the summer off,’” noting that the therapy sessions were conducted via Zoom.
According to the document, “To him, the terms of the parties’ stipulated court orders are simply suggestions to follow when it benefits him and which he ignores when it does not fit his alienation agenda.”
Martinez denied Berry’s allegations, asserting that she filed her request at a time when he would be traveling. In a statement to InTouch, his team claimed that Berry “is constantly attempting to harass and strong-arm [Martinez] by forcing him into ‘submission’ using her wealth and the legal professionals at her disposal.”
