Here’s a little news flash: sometimes, you’ve got to kiss a few frogs before finding your prince—or decide you’re totally good on your own. Halle Berry made it clear she’s not bothered by the chatter about her past relationships when she appeared on The Drew Barrymore Show. Like many women navigating today’s dating world, Berry opened up about the struggles of finding the right partner before meeting her current love, Van Hunt.
“It’s hard in these streets,” Berry said, speaking honestly. “I’ve heard people say, ‘Something must be wrong with Halle Berry, she can’t keep a man.’ Well, who’s to say I want to keep a man? I don’t want to keep the wrong man. I’m not crazy, right? When you realize you made a mistake—we all do—you have the right to say, ‘This was a mistake. Let me start over.’ And we should.”
With her life in the spotlight, Berry’s relationships and marriages have often been part of the public conversation. But each one ended for different reasons—infidelity, emotional abuse, or just plain differences—and the 58-year-old actress revealed it took years of self-reflection to truly understand herself and approach love in a new way.
“I’d never been intentional with my relationships. I was kind of all over the place with that,” she admitted to Marie Claire. “You’ve got to be clear with the universe, or any old thing will find you.”
After taking a three-year “sabbatical” to focus on herself, Berry not only met Hunt, whom she calls her “perfect match,” but also realized how her mindset had shaped her past dating experiences.
“I always focused on what I didn’t want, and guess what? I manifested that,” she explained. “The universe only hears the action, not the ‘don’t.’ This time, I focused only on what I wanted. I got specific about my needs, stayed positive, and one day, a friend introduced me to him.”
Despite being a self-proclaimed hopeless romantic, Berry admitted she was ready to give up on love and focus solely on her career and children before meeting Hunt.
“After three divorces, you kind of go, ‘I’m just going to be alone,’ and I was ready to do that. I was done,” Berry told E! News. “I knew that if the right person didn’t show up, I’d be better off alone. But this is the power of manifestation. We can manifest any reality we want.”
