Halle Berry was married to baseball player David Justice from 1993 to 1997. Halle has, in past interviews, referenced that time in her life as unpleasant, difficult and depressing. Around the time that Halle was with Eric Benet, Halle would reference an “ex” who hit her, and many believed that reference was to David Justice, or possibly Wesley Snipes. As with all of her former lovers/partners, Halle’s people did a massive hit job on Justice’s reputation. He tried to correct the record a few times, but most people didn’t really believe him. Something about the way everything went down with Gabriel Aubry, though… the worm really turned. Over the past few years especially, people are wising up to Halle’s game. So now that Halle and her people are going after Olivier Martinez in the press, David Justice took to Twitter to clear the air a little bit. As of this writing, Justice left some of these tweets up but deleted some of them.

Reading the latest Halle Berry Reports,it wasn’t me who hit Halle causing the ear damage.Halle has never said that I hit her. It was a former Hollywood boyfriend (WS) that she told me! When she first reported that she had been in abusive relationships, she wouldn’t name the ‘famous’ former boyfriend (WS)…

She was mad at me leaving the relationship so she and her Hollywood Team just tried to destroy my character. It had to be my fault, right? Yup…Me, Eric, Gabriel and Oliver were all her ‘Knight in Shining Armor, until it ends. Then we all become the worst guys in history. Only the guys in the relationship with Halle know the real deal…there will be another, of course. He’ll be called ‘The Best’ until it ends.

Just wait, Oliver…It’s coming! She insinuated that her daughter wasn’t safe around Gabriel…look it up and see the reason! Just wrong. smh

It just makes me mad to still see the same lie being perpetuated about the source of her abuse being me. Never happened! #formerboyfriend

[From David Justice’s Twitter]

Justice is saying outright that Wesley Snipes hit her, or at least that’s what Halle told Justice at the time. He’s also saying Halle’s pattern is to make her current guy the White Knight and disparage the former guy. Which is legitimately her pattern. David Justice also spoke to the Daily Mail about his tweets and everything else. Here’s part of what he had to say:

“I had to say something after reading about Halle’s recent marriage. So many years ago, I didn’t say anything about the accusations that I abused her, but now I have three children, ages, 15, 13 and 11, two boys and one girl, and they can read this stuff and they have friends who will read it as well so I had to finally come out and say once and for all I never hit Halle Berry. Back then it didn’t matter, but it’s different now. Halle never said I hit her but she never said I didn’t either, which was disappointing. Let me tell you something, I was raised by a single mother and I love and respect her dearly, I would never hit a woman. Never. So, now I have said all that I am going to say on the subject. I am not the face of Halle Berry’s exes, I won’t be going on TV to talk about this. I just wanted to make sure my wife, my children and the rest of my family, friends and fans know the truth. But one more thing…people in Hollywood knew the truth then but no one spoke up on my behalf. Again, disappointing, but that was 20 years ago and I won’t be doing anymore tweeting on the subject. I have said what I needed to say so now, I’m done.”

[From The Daily Mail]

At this point, I’m guessing that the reason Halle has never come out and claimed “David Justice hit me” is because even she knows that she would be opening a huge can of worms and that Justice might even sue her ass. I don’t expect Halle to say anything about him at this point – he’s old news. She’s too busy focusing all of her crazy on Olivier, that poor bastard. Oh, but just in case you think Justice is some stand-up guy in all of this – while Halle has always had profound issues, I’m absolutely positive that Justice screwed everything and everyone back then.

PS… Eric Benet tweeted some words of agreement towards Justice. Ruh-roh!

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