Halle `Jinx` Berry - I will never marry again

While she dominates the screen in her forthcoming Catwoman spectacular, she has utterly failed to tame the men in her life. So now she has decided to go it alone, reports the Daily Mirror.

Despite being one of the most beautiful leading ladies in Hollywood, Halle's lovelife has always ended in heartache. The breakdown of her two marriages plus a series of disastrous romances have left her devastated. But she is discovering a new, inner strength in being single.

"I just don't get relationships right and now I'm learning there's more in life than a relationship with a man," says Halle, 37, resignedly.

"I've been forced to learn to get over that fear of loneliness and I'm becoming a person who feels really good being alone.

"I will not marry again. I'll never get married again - that's a fact. I know now and understand on a primal level that I'm really OK and don't need a man to complement me.
"The man for me is now the cherry on the pie, but I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself, even if I don't have a cherry. That's the way I'm looking at it - my pie is good all by itself and that sometimes means being alone, but I'm OK with that these days."

Although she has suffered a lot, she bears no ill-will towards the men who have broken her heart. They include her first husband, baseball player David Justice and a former lover who once hit her so hard she became partially deaf.

"I have no malice towards those people or those situations which happened," Halle shrugs. "Those people are not a thought on my mind these days.

"The horrible things that happen are just learning lessons. They are put in our lives to help us learn and grow.

"I was attracting men who weren't good for me. When my marriage to Eric ended I would have loved to have dealt with it very privately, but it became public."

Citing irreconcilable differences, Halle began divorce proceedings against her adulterous second husband two months ago. In response, Benet filed paperwork in Los Angeles Superior Court last week, asking a judge to determine the validity of the couple's prenuptial agreement.

Not only is he looking to make as much cash as he can, but he has reportedly threatened to prevent Halle seeing his daughter India, 13, who she adopted several years ago.
India's biological mother died in a road accident 15 months after she was born. Halle became close to her stepdaughter after getting together with Benet in 1999. And she is determined that the end of the marriage will not sever her ties with India.

"I'm her mother," says Halle. "I don't think anything's going to prevent us from having a mother-daughter relationship. We're very close and I will always be there for her.

"I'm all she's got as far as a mother goes. It feels as if she's my own.

"I still hope things can be worked out with her father without having to make a public spectacle of it. I have a lot of love for Eric and I always will. We shared a lot together."

Benet, 37, has finally come clean about his infidelity which led to the end of the marriage.

He says, "I am a person who, through a series of emotional events, troubles, challenges, made some really, really stupid, painful mistakes.

"Trying to make sense of how someone can love someone, but still manage to commit an act of extreme betrayal is a real hard one to understand."

Benet claims his indiscretions involved "verbally inappropriate" behaviour and "physical contact that was extremely inappropriate and wrong in a marriage" - but not intercourse.

Certainly he found it hard being seen as "Mr Halle Berry", especially on the night of her Oscar victory.

He admits, "It was hard for me to inhabit the skin of that man - not just that night, but pretty much every day."
Given all this, it's no surprise that Halle doesn't believe in third time lucky when it comes to walking up the aisle.

"I might have more children and if I do, I will adopt them," she says. "I just don't feel the need to get married any more.

"I hope I eventually find the man I'm supposed to spend my life with, but if I don't I'll just have different relationships.

"I realise I'm OK by myself. And that's a big revelation for me."

While her personal life has been fraught, her career has soared. Since scooping the Best Actress Oscar in 2002 for Monster's Ball, she has played Bond girl Jinx in Die Another Day, starred as Storm in both X-Men movies, and made the horror flick Gothika.

Her latest role as Catwoman has done wonders to boost her self-esteem.

"I needed to feel in control of my life and that's how I felt in the Catwoman suit," she says.

"When I put it on, people dealt with me differently. They didn't know how to react or what to say. I had the whip in my hand so they'd stand a little way away and they were cautious. It was empowering to have that much control over how people felt."

Playing Catwoman also fulfilled another personal challenge.
"When I won the Oscar I reached a goal I never thought I'd reach," she says. "Making a big action film became another goal because no woman has ever really done this before - especially a black woman."

Thanks to `Angel` for the alert.

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