David Justice spills on why he and Halle Berry divorced: ‘SHE DON’T COOK, DON’T CLEAN’

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David Justice is revealing why his marriage to Halle Berry didn’t last.

The retired MLB player, who was married to the Oscar winner for four years, appeared on the All the Smoke podcast last Thursday and discussed their relationship.

Berry proposed to the Atlanta Braves alum five months after their first date in 1993.

“I said, ‘OK,’ but I don’t know if my heart was really into it. But I didn’t want to make her feel bad and say no,” he revealed to host Matt Barnes.

“My knowledge and my understanding, my wisdom around relationships just wasn’t vast,” Justice explained.

“So I’m looking at my mom — and I’m a Midwest guy — so, in my mind, I’m thinking a wife at that time should cook, clean, [be] traditional, you know?” he continued.

“Then I’m thinking, ‘OK, if we have kids, is this the woman I want to have kids with and build a family with?’

“At that time, as a young guy — she don’t cook, don’t clean, don’t really seem motherly, and then we started having issues.”

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Justice also said they “spent a lot of time apart” as Berry’s career began flourishing.

He explained that he and Berry managed to keep their personal life private and the romance didn’t get “a lot of negative attention” from the press “until I decided to leave her in 1996.”

They divorced the following year, but he admitted that if they went to counselling, their marriage might have survived.

“We honestly probably could have made it if I knew about therapy,” he said.

“If we knew about therapy, we probably could have made it.”

The former baseball star also touched on how he became the bad guy after Berry accused an unnamed ex of abuse and didn’t clarify that it was not Justice behind it.

“She let the world think it. She didn’t come out and say, ‘Nah, it wasn’t David,’” Justice recalled.

“She let the world think that it was me. That, I never appreciated with her,” he added. “I thought she was dead wrong for that. I thought she should’ve handled that better.”

Berry has not publicly commented on her ex’s claims.

Justice married Rebecca Villalobos in 2001 with whom he shares three children.

Berry has a 19-year-old daughter, Nahla Ariela, from her relationship with model Gabriel Aubry.

Berry remarried twice — to singer Eric Benet and actor Olivier Martinez, with whom she shares son Maceo Robert.

Berry has been in a relationship with singer-songwriter Van Hunt since 2020.

Hunt proposed earlier this summer, but Berry has not yet given him an answer, explaining to Today that they “don’t have to get married to make our love meaningful. We don’t.”