Last week, Halle Berry’s first ex-husband, David Justice, went on the All the Smoke podcast and opened up about why he “decided to leave her” in 1996 after three years of marriage.
After admitting that he didn’t “know if [his] heart was really into” the relationship from the start, David said one of his primary concerns about his movie-star wife was that she didn’t seem “motherly.”
“I’m thinking, ‘OK, if we have kids, is this the woman I want to have kids with and build a family with?’” the former MLB player questioned. “At that time, as a young guy — she don’t cook, don’t clean, don’t really seem like, motherly, and then we start having issues.”
Though David’s comments were part of a broader conversation, the clip of him questioning Halle’s motherliness did the rounds on social media and sparked a whole lot of viral backlash and confusion last week.
Now, off the back of all the discourse, Halle has weighed in on the conversation herself — in the best way she possibly could.
On Thursday, which also happened to be her 59th birthday, the Oscar-winner posted a photo on X of herself and her partner, Van Hunt, lounging on a sunbed with a big bowl of chips between them. “Phew…! cooking, cleaning and mothering,” Halle captioned the post, which, at the time of writing, has been liked over 61,000 times.
It’s giving unbothered, flourishing, and certainly not worried about what an ex has to say. And people are loving the shade, with fans calling it a “10/10 clap back.”
Honestly, no notes. Happy birthday, Halle!
