Halle Berry in therapy since age 10
By Tribute News on March 28, 2013 | 9 Comments
Halle Berry has been in therapy for over 30 years to deal with issues surrounding her alcoholic father. The 46-year-old actress - who has five-year-old daughter Nahla with ex-partner Gabriel Aubry - finds it helpful to talk through her problems with someone independent and first sought treatment to help her get over the harmful behavior of her dad Jerome that she witnessed as a child. Halle now relies on her therapist to help her whenever she is stressed or has personal problems.
She said: "I've done therapy on an as-needed basis since I was probably 10 years old. My father was an alcoholic and a very abusive one, and my mother knew the value of providing me with the outlet of an unbiased person to talk to, so I've done that all my life when times get stressful. It really helps me deal with stuff."
However, the Cloud Atlas star - who is engaged to Olivier Martinez - tries to keep her problems hidden from her loved ones and would hate to take them out on other people. Halle - who has endured a bitter custody battle with Gabriel over Nahla which culminated in a fight between her ex and her current partner - added to the UK issue of HELLO! magazine: "I try really hard not to take my problems out on others and, in order to do that, I tend to mask the bad stuff or deal with it internally - you know, keep my chin up, put on a brave face and just keep going. If I do have a problem, I handle it so well that most other people don't even know about it."
Therapy is not cheap. She must come from a wealthy family.
I think her being in therapy most her life made her a strong person, a great mother, and made her come into her own.
boohoo…she’s not the only one.
Maybe this will take some negative feelings off of therapy. I know many people who are embarrassed to go to therapy even if they really need it, because they think it’s bad, and they are being punished. Good for her, talking out your feelings, issues and problems is the best way to cope and accept what is going on or what happened.
She’s still kind of a mess. One messy divorce, one baby with a guy she doesn’t even want to let near his own kid, she’s living with a violent guy who wants to take her away from her home country and family….
Actually, Jeff, it’s even worse than you thought: TWO very messing divorce, one hell of a bad relationship before her first marriage, a completely broken relationship with her sister, the hit-and-run incident, and the fact she is already well-known throughout Hollywood to be certifiably insane, now proven with this article.
Hey Carlos, check out http://www.hecklerspray.com/halle-berry-cant-keep-a-man/201398366.php, read the whole thing, then come back here, saying you still think she is a strong woman and a good mother… ‘dare you.
I support the idea of going to therapy. I agree with Carlos. There are benefits of venting out to an un-biased person and at the end of the day, she leaves the office with a much clearer mind.
@MightyMad but that’s my opinion, I think she’s an amazing actress 🙂 it will not change even after reading the article you gladly shared 🙂
@MightyMad u r dead right! All that therapy DID not help! I mean who makes up a story of a father molesting their own daughter just to prevent the kid from seeing her father albeit in another country (Canada)? Gabriel is without a doubt a better parent than Crazy Berry and the kid would be much better off being raise in Montreal Canada than wherever the heck insane Halle planning to raise her (US of god forbid some Latin American/Spanish country). She is “unfixable”, so donate that therapy money to a charity instead and send Nala back to her real family please.