Halle Berry: I Tried to Kill Myself

Halle Berry once tried to commit suicide when her marriage to former baseball star David Justice fell apart.
Halle Berry
In an incredibly revealing interview with Parade magazine, Berry claimed that she tried to use exhaust fumes to take her own life, but thanks to a powerful vision, stopped at the last minute. "I was sitting in my car, and I knew the gas was coming, when I had an image of my mother finding me," Berry said. "She sacrificed so much for her children, and to end my life would be an incredibly selfish thing to do. It was all about a relationship. My sense of worth was so low. I promised myself I would never be a coward again."

During the interview, Berry also admitted that she underwent sex therapy with ex-husband #2 Eric Benet, an experience that she wishes she never had. "I was putting everyone's needs before mine." She kicked Benet to the curb in 2005.

Now, however, Halle's focus is clear -- the Oscar winner, who's currently dating 31-year-old model Gabriel Aubry, says she wants to be a mom, telling the magazine, "my sights are set on a different chapter of my life, which is motherhood. That's the goal I have very clearly set for myself."

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46. OH PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEGIVE ME A BREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 11:59PM on Mar 29th 2007 by johnnie f.king

47. Ok she shared this on Oprah about 10 years ago. I lost complete respect for her after Monster's Ball. She likes to play a white man's whore in movies. That's why I don't understand the reason she is getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She is the poster child for the non-threatening black woman to white people. Black women don't attempt suicide. That is for the drama queen white women. Get some self-esteem Halle. She and Mariah Carey are crazy and give biracial people a bad name.

Posted at 3:59AM on Mar 30th 2007 by Tina Fontenot

48. This stuff is 10 years old !!!! I thought reporters had to report the "NEW-S" not some crap you dig on the internet from 10 years ago and try to make it a headline all the sudden because they had an interview with her !!! That's the problem with reporters theses days no integrity whatsoever ! All a bunch of fakes and copycats !!!! Now excuse me while I go wipe my ass with my Parade paper !

Posted at 2:43PM on Apr 4th 2007 by SO WHAT ?!

49. Old news Halle, you don't have the pull that you used to, and you keep picking up idiots so keep on suffering

WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE OPENED UP ABOUT IS WHEN YOU GOT OUT OF THAT CRASH YOU CAUSED WHILE YOU WERE??????????????
AND LIED ABOUT IT.

Posted at 8:35AM on Mar 30th 2007 by so what Halle

50. OPEN UP ABOUT THE CAR CRASH YOU CAUSED---YOU HIT A WOMAN INJURED HER AND RAN, AFTER COMING OUT OF AN LA CLUB

AND SHOWED UP AT THE POLICE STATION THE NEXT DAY, SOBER CLAIMING A BRAIN INJURY CONFUSED YOU SO YOU WENT HOME.

THE BANDAIDE ON YOUR FOREHEAD (HEAD INJURY ) WAS NO BIGER THEN A DIME.

Posted at 8:59AM on Mar 30th 2007 by Halle's decade old news

51. You should a wrapped a huge gauze around your head to make it believable girl,

WHAT'S WRONG WITH SHU??????

Posted at 9:15AM on Mar 30th 2007 by Halle's injured head with dime-size bandaide- ----please

52. R31? What was that experience? How many others have met Halle and, how much is she worth?

Posted at 1:23AM on Mar 31st 2007 by Interested

53. Known as one of the prettiest woman in the world but can't keep a man!

Posted at 12:02PM on Mar 30th 2007 by Tazzygirl6

54. Hasn't she already admitted this before? I guess this is one way to try to get your name in the papres again- and help promote a movie.

Posted at 12:14PM on Mar 30th 2007 by Stacie

55. It is really pretty to kill yourself if you do not wish to be alive.These attempts`are attention seeking.I am not in USA so ..does she have a new movie she is promoting or something.I do not believe any of this yawn... if it is not suicide bids it is raped at early age.it is kind of disingenuous.

Posted at 12:18PM on Apr 2nd 2007 by Salome

56. How much is Halle worth?

Posted at 1:25AM on Mar 31st 2007 by interested

57. Forgot to mention---love the headline--"I don't have the right to be selfish". She's one of the most selfish people in Hollywood with everything she says is about her past/present---so if she's really telling the truth about she and Gaybriel, no wonder people don't believe when she may actually be telling the truth or some semblemence thereof. Halle--have Vince and Sam help you come up with new material.

Posted at 11:18AM on Mar 31st 2007 by forgot to mention

58. Halle's story is helping me somewhat to not take my own life. I'm searching on this computer right now for some help from some personal pain... Sharing the truth is refreshing and a human quality... not to be talked about as a stupid move on her part, I think.

Posted at 3:38PM on Apr 5th 2007 by E

59. I don't know what it is but.....there is something not quite right about Halle. I'm glad she realizes that life is worth living but...Any woman can pick a man and it doesn't work. I don't personally believe Eric Benet had a sex problem. I believe he loved and probably still loves Halle. He's a very "earthy" type guy. I think they should never have gotten married. they postponed several times.I'm wondering if maybe Halle doesn't have a problem in the bedroom. She's attractive, a celebrity and has money. But maybe she doesn't know how to love. She still has problems with her dad who is "black". She needs to "love" herself before trying to love someone else.

Posted at 3:01PM on Apr 6th 2007 by intelwoman

60. Halle, You are like a sacrament...an outward sign of an inward grace! God bless your unique path .He delights in you! I hope I have the chance to meet you one day. That would be awesome.

Posted at 6:54PM on Apr 13th 2007 by kathy Lashley

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