{"id":272188,"date":"2026-02-03T17:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/272188\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T17:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:52:11","slug":"i-abstained-from-dating-and-sex-for-years-before-my-current-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/272188\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I abstained from dating and sex for years before my current relationship’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Halle <\/a>Halle Berry and her boyfriend, Van Hunt<\/p>\n

During a recent interview with Time Magazine, Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry revealed that she intentionally abstained from sex and dating for four years before she eventually became romantically involved with her boyfriend Van Hunt. <\/p>\n

\u201cI was solo and celibate for four years,\u201d Berry, 59, said, per PEOPLE. \u201cI had to really sit myself down and be alone and grow and reflect and realize my value. I had decided that if the right person doesn\u2019t come, I will be alone. And that\u2019s okay. I\u2019m enough by myself. I\u2019ve got my children. I have my career. That\u2019s more than enough. I have an embarrassment of riches.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Monster\u2019s Ball actress was also asked if a relationship would have been a bonus, to which she replied in the affirmative. <\/p>\n

\u201cYes. And the icing had better be exactly what I want, or I\u2019m not going to eat that cake. Because it\u2019s too costly,\u201d Berry answered.<\/p>\n

Berry decided to be celibate after her 2016 divorce from her ex-husband, Olivier Martinez. The mother of two, who is a three-time divorcee, ultimately became romantically involved with Hunt, 55, in 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would not have been ready for him before. I had to go through fire and burn to get to the point of appreciating a person like him. I was a moth to a flame. I no longer am that person,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

In a previous interview with Marie Claire, Berry said that she decided to pause dating before meeting Hunt. She said she took a \u201csabbatical to understand me\u201d during that time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI created my career. I was intentional about that. I knew what I was going to do, and I did it,\u201d she said at the time. \u201cBut I had never been that intentional with my relationships. I was loosey goosey with that. You have to be clear with the universe [or] any old thing will find you.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also said that Hunt entered her life the \u201cminute I started to feel like I understood myself and what I had been doing wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt took me a minute to get it right, but given the nature of the way this happened, I have a real belief that this is it. This is my person,\u201d Berry said about her relationships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Halle Berry and her boyfriend, Van Hunt During a recent interview with Time Magazine, Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-272188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}