David Justice is getting frank about the reason for his divorce from Halle Berry nearly three decades ago.
The former Atlanta Braves outfielder and first baseman spoke out on the "All the Smoke" podcast with co-host Matt Barnes and reflected on how he dealt with the attention placed on his personal life.
"She asked me to marry her after knowing me for five months," he remembers. "I don’t know if my heart was really into it. But I didn’t want to make her feel bad and say no. I was just in the moment, it caught me off-guard. We're getting along, we're vibing, again, we're only five months in, we're still in the honeymoon stage."
The couple, who were wed from 1993 to 1997, spent a lot of time apart while she was out of the country making movies. "It wasn’t really a lot of negative attention until I decided to leave her in 1996," he adds.
Months into their marriage, "I’m looking at my mom, I’m a Midwest guy. So in my mind, I’m thinking a wife at that time should cook, clean, and I’m thinking OK, if we have kids, is this the woman I want to have kids with and build a family with? And at that time, as a young guy, she don’t cook, don’t clean, don’t really seem like motherly."
