As it turns out, Halle Berry is self-aware enough to realize that she was coming across as a world-class bitch. Over the past month, the stories just seemed to get worse and worse as Halle and Gabriel Aubry’s custody battle for Nahla was played out in the media. Halle’s camp leaked more and more damaging stories about Gabe’s alleged racism, his alleged neglect of Nahla, his alleged verbal abuse of Halle, his cash deficiency, his famewhoring, his bad taste in women, and so much more. For his part, Gabriel’s team released information about Halle being crazy and doing everything in her power to keep sole custody of Nahla. Anyway, over the last week, things have simmered down noticeably. I kept waiting for the over shoe to drop after Halle’s controversial “one drop” Ebony cover interview, but surprisingly, no new disinformation campaigns were launched. Radar now claims that Halle and Gabriel have declared a truce:
Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry have called a truce — for now — in their bitter custody battle over their two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Nahla. It’s not exactly peace, but it’s not all-out war either, and that’s a development that’s good for everyone involved, a source close to the situation tells RadarOnline.com exclusively.
Halle is not going to seek sole custody of Nahla, the source says, adding that legal threats have been flying behind the scenes.
Several negative items about Aubry have appeared in the media recently, and Halle released a statement through her rep, saying she was “concerned” for her child’s well being while she was in Gabriel’s care.
Other accusations, attributed to friends of Halle’s and a former business partner of Aubrey’s, were that Gabriel had used the ‘N word’. One report said he was verbally abusive to the 44-year-old Oscar winning actress during their five year relationship.
“I think Halle started realizing that things were getting out of control,” the source tells RadarOnline.com. “It was just getting too nasty and too public.”
Sources say that neither Halle nor Gabriel want to fight this battle in public. They stopped talking to each other as the war hit its most intense peak but now they have resumed speaking again.
“Gabriel has not responded to the allegations that have been made against him,” one source told RadarOnline.com. “His thing has always been that he will save the truth and fight, if needs be, in the privacy of family court, where no cameras or press are allowed.
“Gabriel and Halle even resumed talking again last week, and it seems that Halle is going to be making it easier for Gabriel to spend time with Nahla, which has been a sticking point between the two up till now. Hopefully this is the start of the two of them being able to form some kind of workable co-parenting relationship for the sake of their daughter.”
Halle is determined to do whatever is best for Nahla, according to sources, and also wants to contain her disagreement with Gabriel to a closed courtroom.
[From Radar]
What’s amazing to me is that it was only RECENTLY that Halle realized that everything was getting too nasty. Like, she didn’t realize it when her team was releasing all of that junk about Gabriel being a racist and how he verbally abused her? And here’s another thought: if what Halle accused Gabriel of is in any way true, would she really back off and declare a truce? No. So by declaring a truce, Halle is basically admitting that all of those stories were part of a campaign to malign and destroy her baby-daddy.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Here’s hoping they can keep their mouths shut for the baby’s sake.
Yeah, I agree. This “truce” just makes her look even more guilty of being a nasty, vindictive manipulator. If I were a custody judge I would be asking her for both proof of these ugly accusations, or if Halle were to say they were “just tabloid lies”, why hasn’t she set the record straight? Why not tell the world that your daughter’s father is not some kind of racist, abuser? I wonder how it felt to be Halle Berry, “movie star” and read how most of America thinks you’re a lying nutjob?
The worst part of the “dragging through the mud” that BOTH of these idiots did was the argument over whether Nahla was black. Mixed! Mixed, and shaddup!
about time she woke up and smelled the as*hole (she was being)!
be winners for the kid, not losers…then everyone wins.
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We all knew that she was lying. She was being malicious and realized people weren’t buying her stories. She had to back off because she was going to lose her career in her attempt to push GA out of his daughter’s life. She did the right thing. Maybe she can gain some respect back, although, my feelings are pretty much forever tainted.
The child is Bi-racial. Mixed sounds like a dog. Halle should realize that just because she grew up without a father, her child has a father that seems to want to be involved, LET HIM.
Finally somebody got some sense, but for Halle – “mouth opened tory jump out”, the deed has been done and everything was already said.
A crazy-ass-bitch will always be a crazy-ass-bitch no matter what. I wonder how long this “truce” would last.
I am a court reporter, so I listen to this sort of thing for a living. I can tell you that it’s always the case that even the most sane, loving parents turn into petty, childish assholes in custody battle situations. It still amazes me how one parent will vilify the other all in the name of “the best interests of the child.” There is such denial on the part of the maligning parent. It is the grown-up equivalent of two petulant siblings sitting in the back seat of the car on the drive home yelling “he’s touching me, he’s touching me.” The best interests of the child would be if her parents didn’t point fingers at each other and just treated each other with respect.
I think it is really all about the bad publicity that Halle was getting. She looked like the “bad guy” in this whole process. Either way as long as the best interest of their daughter is their prime concern.
she stopped bad mouthing him after she realised she wasnt doing herself any favours
“Hell hath no fury as a scorned woman.” This is Halle after Gabriel rejected her for another. She’s always being rejected, abused, cheated on by her men….what up Halle? Maybe it’s time for some good old-fashioned therapy.
@hoganbcmj – hear hear! well said.
“As it turns out, Halle Berry is self-aware enough to realize that she was coming across as a world-class bitch.”
More likely one of her handlers has been reading the backlash online about her smear campaigns and trying to keep Nahla away from her daddy. Halle seems far more self absorbed than self aware and is likely only backing off because it is damaging her image. Well, too late here. I see her quite differently than six months ago.
“The worst part of the “dragging through the mud” that BOTH of these idiots did was the argument over whether Nahla was black. Mixed! Mixed, and shaddup!”
Are you saying that is what they were arguing about or are you declaring the child’s racial identity?
You can be a person that acknowledges that you are mixed and still choose to racially identify as Black, just to let you know.
And since I said plenty about that topic 10 pages back, I’ll shut up now.
Halucinator Berry got a taste of her own medicine when her plan to malign Gabriel back-fired on her lying ass.
If Madonna and Carlos Leon could work out custody amicably, Halle can too. A breakup doesn’t have to be a bloodbath, grow up.
Has anyone thought she might jus be telling the truth. Intentionally or not, white people constantly insult and abuse other races but hate and deny when they’re being told they’re doing so. Read between the lines of this article, it’s presuming he’s all innocent. It’s not in any way written from a neutral viewpoint. Unf, I’m resorting to writing about the article instead of dealing with the custody issue at hand.
God this Radar story just reeks of damage control from Halle’s camp. He’s probably got some serious dirt on her, her handlers realized this and they advised her to drop it.
Now she’ll try to save face by doing some opportunistic photo-ops, maybe with Gabriel, but certainly with their child and probably in a park somewhere. *eyeroll*
She couldn’t have come out of this looking any worse.
I bet she’s fuming.
I read quite a lot of interviews and comments both made over the last 5 years
and Aubry has always come across as a loving father and very proud of her achievements. And Halle has been the one throwing most of the dirt, I think he just fired up to stop her . From what I have read he is a very quiet man who does not like the limelight, that is the way he comes across. We all should check up past history before making any comments.
Victor
As far as I am concerned this is nothing to do with colour. I have a mixed race grandson. I do not see colour and I don’t care what people say but he is not black, my daughter has half of his gene’s and my son-in-law is happy to acknowledge that. I also have an adopted daughter from Sri Lanka I am part German and part Dutch and have an Italian aunt we are a family first and foremost.
@ Oh please!:
If Madonna and Carlos Leon could work out custody amicably, Halle can too. A breakup doesn’t have to be a bloodbath, grow up.
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EXACTLY!
i forgot how discreet madonna was back in the day regarding her relationships.
you never heard ‘NADA’ from carlos.
madonna got too much dough for that. she kept it low-key, amicable & healthy for lourdes. she probably dolled out a few sheckles for him to travel to see his kid as well.
halle would do great to follow that example. as rich as she is…she has it within her power to keep her business off front street.
Am I the only that noticed she seems to be giving the middle finger in the first photo above?
I’m just glad the two of them are going to stfu from now on and really do what’s best for their daughter.
Even though I think Halle called a truce because she was losing big time, in the court of public opinion, which in turn translates into reduced endorsement deals and movie roles, I hope she has enough sense and selflessness to think of the affect this sordid mess was having on Nahia’s childhood. Childhood lasts only a brief time, I hope the parents can act like sane adults and let Nahia enjoy her childhood peacefully.
Touché!
Gabriel, cover that baby’s legs! If it’s cold enough to be out in coats, scarves, and hats, it’s cold enough to make sure her pantlegs are pulled down. Brrrrr!!!
That does not mean Halle was lying because she declare truce. She is probably tired of the legal battle and realize it is really not worth putting her daughter through this drama!!!
There is a difference between lying and crazy. Crazy people don’t lie.
Halle, did really need to cool her hills, the child should have both parents in her life, and both parents need to realize they are only huring Nahla with the dirt throwing tactics. That being said, I still think Halle is a little or for that matter a lot off her rocker, Gab, is not looking as hot and sexy as he did when he frist started getting major limelight.. Still Team Aubry and Team Halle, with all their supposed faults.
did she really think that anyone was going to believe her? i mean come on! gabriel is an angel. she, however, is a nut case!
good for the kid
Thank goodness! Now that little girl can grow up with both her parents. Halle and Gabriel are going to have to work on keeping their mouths shut as far as criticizing the other parent(first thing that screws up kids of divorce) and both of them are going to have to make sure they don’t play “keepaway” games with the kid (#2 thing).
First the lawyers-let’s hope that goes well-they don’t even have to go to court, they can mediate, which is much less stressful and tends to keep the acrimony level down. Then then they have to work on being civil and keeping the communication lines open.
Being a co-parent is very, very hard, but worth it for the child. I’ve weighed in before on this. I have been doing it with my 11 and 9 year old boys (and my ex!) now for 4 years, and they are turning out to be decent little men.
It is my fervent wish that people would stop using the term “I don’t see color”. How can we not see each others beautifully hued skin when we are covered in it, head to toe? I think it is far more enlightened and open to celebrate all of what makes us the same and also wonderfully different.
glad she got the msg to stfu. have to wonder who spelled that out for her tho.
For the sake of her reputation. For the time being. He is still going to have to deal with this for a very long time to come. Behind the scenes. She will still be a crazy control freak. Calling him telling him what he can feed her. How he can dress her. Where he can take her. It is only over in the public eye. Poor Gabriel has to raise a kid with a borderline/narcissist. And that will be very hard. She is never going to let him be equal to her.
@ Sharon, maybe. But i more inclined to believe that Ms. Berry its all about her image and is she is coming across badly she will take a step back. The public pays and demand for what it see and as older woman her days in Hollywood are numbered, she does not want to kill the hand that feeds. But really the damage is done she made some very OUTLANDISH statements that contradicted everything that we have seen, in pap pics. It was mean spirited and unnecessary and if Halle’s reps are reading this, pull the perfume ad at least for a bit….. it makes you client come across as needy and desperate to keep her bombshell image and also a little creepy, girlfriend has got a serious case of the crazy eyes in it.
Guesty, my guess on who told her to stfu were Revlon and the company that makes her perfume 😉
It was all about Halle being in control and making Gabe look bad. I am still camp Gabe and my opinion on Halle has gone from bad to worse bitch in Hollywood.
She’s not thinking of Nahla – she’s thinking of her reputation and endorsement deals. I feel sorry for Nahla if for some reason Halle keeps her away from Gabriel. He will be the only positive constant in her life.
Basically the general public comes out of this fight knowing that Halle Berry is has some serious mental and emotional problems that she needs to work out. If any of the things she accused Gabriel of were true, then he would not have any legitimate claim to custody. Where Halle could get her publicist to leak a comment as an anonymous “source” she could not get her publicist to come into a courthouse and lie under oath, and commit perjury for her. So, now we know that Halle and Gabriel had some sort of argument, and Halle took their fight public and took it to an inappropriate and irrational level. Calling a truce now does not fix her image. The way she’s been clinging to Oliver Martinez (a notorious philanderer) doesn’t indicate that Halle has learned anything about her choices in men, or that she’s making rational choices for herself or her daughter.
I will repost what I said earlier (because for some sad reason, this saga has me glued to celebitchy): I recommend that we all go to Revlon’s website, go to the comment section, and send our opinion on Ms. Berry’s behavior to Revlon. I agree with the posters who think these companies are checking her behavior maybe (hopefully?) because lots of us complained about their spokesperson.
Never again will i watch ANY movie that berry plays in, even for a minute. I have a great dad, the greatest-and one of the reasons he didn’t divorce my mom was the fest that he won’t see us. And in my country, it’s too easy to cut the father off the child. So, for all those great, great dads around the world, who are the center and base of their family, who raise their daughters to strong women who know they deserve the best, F**k off, HALLE!
I always thought that halle gets whiter over the years like michael.
@AmyLynne: CB is my between meeting addiction as well.
I think Revlon commenting is awesome.
Halle is only thinking of herself and her future work; doesn’t want to tarnish the reputation.
Unfortunately for her, we have all already seen behind the curtain.
My parents never went through a divorce but when I was very young (about 5) they went through a couple of bad years before fixing their marriage. I can tell you one thing for certain, it is about the scariest thing in the world when one parent bad mouths the other parent in front of the child. If Audry is a racist douchebag than all the more power to Halle for trying to keep him away from her daughter. If he is abusive in any way then he gave up the right to be a father. If their relationship just went sour than shame on Halle for one using something as sensitive as racism for her own means and for badmouthing the father of her child. Both need to be mature and do what is best for Nahla who btw is a seriously good looking kid.
Victor – Well first of all this a celebrity blog not a New York Times piece so the author above never stated to be neutral. She states her opinion. Second, it is a bit biased of you to state “white people constantly do this”. Err white people aren’t like a hive minded ant hill that all decide on a point of view and stick to it. There are racist and bad people of all color and gender. If you don’t want other people to be racist than stop generalizing humanity and treat each person as an individual. Simple.
JAYE E
Just to prove a point, my little girl is from Sri Lanka, black hair skin nearly as dark beautiful big brown eyes, from the age of 6 to 11 went to a school with the same friends all white, when she moved to high school most of her friends went with her, it was a catholic school. They had a discussion about colour in her class and one girl said ” There are no coloured people in our school ” Her teacher looked at my daughter and said ” What about Amber “, her friends looked confused and said ” but that is our Amber ” that is how we feel, my daughter was really surprised at that comment.
Ill never see another one of her movies. She makes me ill.
Lol! I bet her and her people freaked the f@uck out when they saw the backlash lol. She made her bed…
i agree with the very smart posters her, if halle did come to a truce with gabriel it’s because of the overwhelming negative response to her and her smear campaign. it was truly reprehensible. halle really has shown her true oclors and it ain’t pretty. i, for one, will never look at her the same and probably never pay to see another of her movies.
Awww I am happy for them! Celebrities are people too, they have issues than work through them. I think that’s hard for people that think these people are walking Gods on earth, to understand. They are not perfect, they are just like anybody elsa.
If he is such a racists why did he have a kid with her. Why did he go out with her and have sex. Sounds like she might be the racists by propagating stories like this. Its just bad behavior on both. These stories are going to pop up when the little girl is a teenager and both of them hopefully will be embarrassed.
Halle is trying to save face after showing her ass. She needs to work on being a mother and stop airing her laundry in public for the sake of fame
I have no quarrel with people seeing my colour, as it’s not a point of embarassment with me. If someone were to say ‘I don’t see gender, to me you’re a hazily-defined hemophroditic Barba Poppa blob of the St. Lawrence Lowlands’, I would assume that the person had suffered some kind of trans-orbital distress or negated his own point by throwing those politics into what was a benign setting. Everyone sees it, I do too and frankly it gets tiring to see lectures on how that acknowledgement is going to destroy the world.
The cure for inflexible militance isn’t the condescending ‘your problem is that you’re not me and that’s holding everyone back’ stance. I really don’t know what kinds of responses that is supposed to birth. Obviously, I’m overstating my case but you can’t anecdote your way into your desired reality, especially if in the process you end up negating the actual experiences of so many in order to avoid conflict with things that can’t be supported there.
Maybe I’ll tackle it this way: God forbid, but imagine your house burned down and once the firemen came, they saw fit to leave presently on the basis of, ‘this house didn’t burn down because I don’t believe in fires’. Oh, I don’t know, it’s complicated.
KAISER
Just saw this on TMZ . Halle Berry in coourt custody war.. the custody war between Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry has intensified. TMZ has learned Halle just entered a Los Angeles Courtroom to fight her X. Lawyers for both sides have already spoken with the judge in chambers. Halle is currently conferring with her Lawyer Neal Hersh in the courtroom.
STAY TUNED.
Yep, I’m with the money angle on this one too. Her perfume commercial has been airing, and this whole thing has totally tainted it. She’s probably figured that out.
And I think Gabriel does have something on those voicemails, I really do.
@jaye e – I’m looking forward to the day when skin color is like hair color. You see it, you maybe use a different color eye shadow or wear a different color sweater based on it, but it shouldn’t define any person’s identity or self-worth. That’s 19th and 20th century stuff – except for the people who get some kind of sick reward for playing the superior or playing the victim.
Using a racist slur during an argument does not make you a racist. His reps have never denied he did it. Also there were never reports that he wanted Nahla to be called White he simply had a problem with her being called Black . She is Biracial .Personally I have used a anti gay slur during an argument. In heated situations we use words that will hurt the most.I’m sure someone on here has been called a sexist or misogynistic word during an heated argument. It happens. He seems to be a loving father and should get joint custody IMO
How does anybody know those statements about Aubry were coming from her. Didn’t somebody say anyone can contact a tabloid and make a statement against a celebrity. They just have to prove they know the person. It was someone that had a friend that worked for the tabloids on here. Anyway Halle does great charity work …I love her.
halle only cares about halle. she has no real strong family unit. she has surrounded herself with starsruck “yes ”
people. employees, business relationships, people who like the novelty of a celebrity in their midst. this gives her the feeling of superiority. she is full tilt narcissist. she treats her daughter like a possession – HER possession. look for mommy dearest 2025.