Halle Berry Says Being Single Is So Nice, "I Might Stay Like This"

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Sorry D-Nice, but Halle Berry is good on men right now. The 53-year-old mother of two, like the rest of us, is staying put in the house, and she’s not bothered about not having a romantic partner to be cooped up with.

During an Instagram Live session with collaborator Lena Waithe (the two are behind the BET series Boomerang), Berry shared that she’d pretty much been solo for the last few years.

“I’ve learned a lot being with my children. They are the best company for me right now, and when I divorced Maceo’s dad I’ve been pretty alone by myself going on three years now. Decidedly so, for sure,” she said, according to PEOPLE.

“I have decided to take time. I’m very much a relationship-oriented person, I always want to be with someone. But I decided, no I’m going to slow my roll, I’m going to take a minute and I’m going to spent time with me,” she said. “And it’s been so great that I think I might stay like this!”

Berry didn’t intend to be single for this long initially, telling Waithe that she had planned to do a year of loving on herself.

“One year led to two years and two years is now leading to three years,” she said. “But I’m fine because I think the next relationship I have I think I will have a better chance of attracting and choosing what’s right for me because I’ve taken this time to think about what’s important to me.”

No longer relationship driven, Berry isn’t interested in going about romance the same way she has in the past.

“I no longer feel the need for a relationship so I don’t feel the need to rush or accept something that’s not totally right for me,” she said. “Not that anything’s wrong with the people I’ve been with but I’m going to wait for my match or I will stay solo and be with my kids and do my life the way I’m doing it.”

While Berry says now that there isn’t anything wrong with the suitors of her past, she did say in 2016 that she realized she was entertaining “boys.”

“I looked at the part that I played and looked at the part the men I had married played. I had chosen boys,” she said at the time. “I wanted to do grown up things, but I was not with a grown up. I was choosing from a superficial place. I became a monster. I was head banging mad because it was not working. Here I am a woman, trying to be married to a boy.”

Well, this new Halle Berry isn’t falling for young-minded men again. But as they say, experience is the best teacher, so hit the flip to see the men she’s learned a lot about love from, good and bad.

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Danny Wood

Halle and New Kids on the Block star Danny Wood reportedly dated back in 1989. While visiting Watch What Happens Live a few years ago, Wood shared that tidbit of information while playing a game of “Plead the Fifth.”

“Everyone kinda knows this, but I dated Halle Berry back in the day,” he said.

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Wesley Snipes

The actor reportedly dated Halle in 1990 and there have been rumors for years that he was abusive to the Oscar winner, hitting her in her ear and busting her ear drum. Neither party has confirmed nor denied such stories. However, her ex-husband, David Justice, publicly stated that she told him it was Wesley.

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Christopher Williams

The pair reportedly dated from 1991 to 1992. He claimed that people, for years, wondered how he could have let the timeless beauty go.

“‘How could you just leave Halle Berry?’ I’m like, ‘how could you just leave the last relationship you were in?’ They would probably crucify Jesus again just to get with her,” he said years ago. “She is just a woman, but because her name is in lights, people are damned near ready to bare their souls.”

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David Justice

Halle and former MLB star David Justice were married from 1993 to 1997. She has spoken out, famously on The Oprah Winfrey Show, about considering taking her life after the couple split up. However, she didn’t make the decision for fear of her mother finding her and the grief she would feel.

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Shemar Moore

During his early heartthrob days, Halle dated soap star Shemar Moore in 1997. While she was rebounding from divorce, he was falling for her.

“She was the first woman to really knock my socks off. I fell hard for Halle,” he told BET in 2013. “A lot of people now know we dated, but we had to keep it hush-hush at the time because she was fresh off her divorce from David Justice. I’m still grateful for that relationship.”

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Eric Benet

Halle and singer Eric Benet, her second husband, were married from 2001 to 2005. After she won her Oscar for Monster’s Ball, a career high, her marriage fall apart, reportedly due to Benet having a sex addiction. He underwent treatment for it, but the couple still separated, initially calling it quits in 2003.

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Michael Ealy

After getting close to her Their Eyes Were Watching God co-star, Halle Berry and Michael Ealy dated in 2004. Interesting enough, she said the same thing about wanting to be on her own for a while after they split.

“After my last relationship [with actor Michael Ealy] broke up I was feeling like, well, it wasn’t that I didn’t want to be in a relationship, it’s just that I thought it would be okay to be on my own.”

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Gabriel Aubry

After sparks flew while they were both part of a Versace photo shoot in 2005, Halle Berry started dating Gabriel Aubry until 2010, and they share a daughter named Nahla. However, things between them really went south when they ended up fighting for custody of the child, and when he physically fought her ex-husband, Olivier Martinez.

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Olivier Martinez

The actress married her Dark Tide co-star Olivier Martinez in 2013 after dating him since 2010. The wedding occurred as they were preparing to welcome son Maceo a few months later. After two years of marriage, she decided to call it quits on her third marriage, announcing it was over between the two in 2015.

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Alex da Kid

A short-lived relationship but one much talked about, Halle dated British music producer Alex da Kid in 2017 and fondly referred to him as “My balance.” After only a few months of dating, they broke up, with Halle saying on social media that she was “Done with love.” She’s kept that type of energy ever since.