Halle Berry claps back at ex-husband David Justice after ‘not being motherly’ comments

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Halle Berry is showing she’s still got it at 59.

To mark her birthday, the Oscar winner shared photos from her beach vacation with boyfriend Van Hunt that featured a few sexy bikini shots.

In one of the photos, a laughing Berry sports a gold two-piece, silk headscarf and white sunglasses laughs at the camera while another shows her throwing her head back while holding a tropical drink in a coconut.

Other photos show her in a white bikini lying on an outdoor bed with Jones and a plate of nachos between them.

“Phew…! cooking, cleaning and mothering,” the X-Men actress captioned the post, in an apparent reference to recent comments made by her ex-husband, David Justice.

Justice, who appeared on the Aug. 7 episode of the All the Smoke podcast, explained that his heart wasn’t really into marrying Berry but when she popped the question to him five months after dating, he didn’t want to reject her.

The retired MLB star explained that his knowledge of relationships “just wasn’t vast” and being a “Midwest guy,” he thought a wife at that time “should cook, clean, [and be] traditional.”

That’s when he began to have doubts about their relationship in general.

“‘OK, if we have kids, is this the woman I want to have kids with and build a family with?’” he told host Matt Barnes of his thought process at the time.

“She don’t cook, don’t clean, don’t really seem motherly, and then we started having issues.”

Justice and Berry were married from 1993 to 1997, though he ended things in 1996.

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Shortly after their split, the Catwoman star told People magazine that she was “still struggling to understand” the reasons behind it because while “every day wasn’t bliss, [I] didn’t see that our problems were so great we’d be divorcing.”

Justice noted on the podcast that they “spent a lot of time apart” as Berry’s career blossomed.

The ex-Atlanta Braves player also admitted that their marriage might have survived if they had gone to counselling, something they didn’t think about at the time.

“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.”

Berry is now a mom of two — daughter Nahla, whom she shares with ex-boyfriend Gabriel Aubry, and Maceo-Robert, her son with ex-husband Olivier Martinez.