Actress Halle Berry says she was left damaged after she watched her mother “beaten day after day after day” and get “kicked down stairs” by her husband, when she was a child.
The 48-year-old actress, who has a six-year-old daughter, Nahla, from a previous relationship and 16-month-old son Maceo with husband Olivier Martinez, was just five-year-old when she witnessed domestic violence and that has stayed with her, reported Female First.
“I’m a victim of domestic violence. I wasn’t married to a man that beat me up, but my mother was. Knowing that she wanted nothing more then for her little girls to see her be empowered and be a woman of strength, but having no way to make that happen was heartbreaking for me,” Berry said.