Halle Berry had a "breakdown" after Eric Benét admitted business with several women

His infidelity was reported for the first time in the press only 10 days after winning his Oscar.


When Halle Berry celebrated one of the greatest achievements of her career, her husband Eric Benés was by his side. In 2002, she won the Academy Prize for best actress for her role in Monster ball , and as she started her speech in tears, Benét got up to give him an ovation and show his support. But, as Berry explained it in an interview with Oprah Winfrey A few years later, it went from the highest peaks to the lowest in the stockings in less than two weeks after that.

Ten days later This Oscars ceremony , a report has surfaced Benét Tricher Berry. Not only was the actor confronted this assertion of her husband's infidelity, but later she discovered that he had had business with several women. In 2004 to interview The Oprah Winfrey Show , Berry explained that she had a "depression" after learning that Benét had cheated, even if she was initially determined to save their marriage. Read the rest to learn more about the disappearance of this memorable couple at the start of the first, including the Die another day The side of the story of a star in history.

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Berry did not want to leave Benét at the start.

In his interview with Winfrey, Berry told how, a little more than a week after his Oscar victory, an article that was published which included the statements that Benét had deceived. She did not believe history and even said that she was ready to continue the magazine. Berry said that she hadn't even asked her husband for a year if the report was true. Anyway, he admitted that it was.

"It was heartbreaking because I had a perfect marriage," she said. "I mean, he is one of the nicest men I think I have never known, on several levels."

THE X men Star wanted to move forward with his wedding despite the cheating. "I was going to fix it," she said. "I thought I can do that." She said she even wondered if she had done something wrong in marriage, like too much work. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

Benés admitted to be unfaithful with several women.

Halle Berry and Eric Benét at the 2002 Oscars
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Berry said that after Benét told him that the story of the magazine was true, he always seemed "discouraged". Later, when her husband came to London where she was running Die another day , He admitted that there was more cases than that mentioned in the media. Berry learned that he had been cheating since the start of their relationship.

"The following two weeks of my life, he stayed there and this vomiting happened, and I discovered that there was a woman after a woman after a woman after a woman," She declared to Winfrey. "And then I realized that he had a disease."

While Berry had accepted the challenge of working on their marriage after a case, the news of many others sent him a dark path. "I had emotional depression. And this window, my bay window looked really good," she said. "And I thought I was going to go through. I had a little breakdown, I took a few days off."

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Benés asked for treatment for sexual dependence.

Judith Ann Hawkins, Halle Berry, and Eric Benét at the 2002 Oscars
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Berry said his mother, Judith Ann Hawkins suggested that Benet fought with sexual dependence. He finally entered a rehabilitation program, but later said that he had realized that it was not his problems.

"I am not a sexual addict," Benés said ABC News in 2004. "I am a person who ... through a series of emotional events, problems, challenges, made mistakes really, really stupid and painful." Benés also said that cheating did not imply sex with other people.

On Oprah , Berry said, "I thought, if he was addict, I would leave him now? Absolutely not. If he was an alcoholic, I would leave now? And support him and fight." Winfrey stressed that the cheating is different from 'A partner than these other problems.

"I realized that two years later," said Berry, "but in the initial moment, I wanted to save my marriage more than anything in the world."

Benés said he was "very in love with" Berry.

Halle Berry and Eric Benét at the Women in Film Crystal and Lucy Awards in 2002
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In a 2005 interview with People , Benés shared that he and Berry tried to work on their wedding After his stay in the program, before they officially separated in 2003.

"We got back together after that," he said. "We tried to rediscover this groove to feel comfortable, safe and safe in the relationship. I was very in love with my wife. But I could only contribute 50%. Believe me more. You can't blame him. "

He continued: "Halle entered the relationship with his problems and I entered the relationship with my problems. It was the perfect situation for it to be completely not condemned to solve this problem. It was as if the Titanic descended. "

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They had a war of words in the press.

Eric Benét and Halle Berry at the 2002 Screen Actors Guild Awards
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The divorce of Berry and Benét was finalized in 2005. As the Daily Beast reported, in 2006, She was asked about the payment of alimony to his ex by Canwest News Service. "Yeah, it's not good," she said. "Especially when he deceives you like 27 times."

Benés responded to Berry's comment in the New York Post ( via contactmusic.com ). "If she said that, that I cheated on her 27 times, then she simply lies," said the singer-songwriter. "All right, it is a lie and a coarse and coarse exaggeration of what happened in our marriage. I admitted my indiscretion and I apologized and I took responsibility. I think he It may be time for Halle to take some responsibility, instead of constantly embarking on this victim mode and involving his commitment to our marriage was flawless. "He also criticized Berry for speaking, due to 'Blessing effect that he would have on his daughter of the time.

Benét criticized his ex more recently.

Eric Benét at the
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As Daily Beast reported in 2015 when Berry separated from his third husband, Olivier Martinez , his first husband, David Justice , tweeted that Berry "and his Hollywood team just tried to destroy my character" after having separated from the star in 1997. He added: "Yeah ... me, Eric, Gabriel and Olivier were all his" Knight in brilliant armor "ends. Then we become all the worst guys in history."

Benét then tweeted , "My man at @ 23davidjustice tweets a little truth tells 'mornin'!"

Benét too referenced his marriage to Berry in 2017 when Jay Z published the song "Kill Jay Z." The song understands the lyrics, "You almost did Eric Benét / left the most mean girl in the world."

US Weekly reported that Benét tweeted: "Hey yo #jayz! Just so you know, I have the worst daughter in the world as my wife…. Like now! ✌?" Since 2011, Benét has been married to Manuela Testolini . As for Berry, it is Currently in a relationship with a musician Van .

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