Halle Berry, right, pictured in an old family photograph with her now-estranged sister Renee.
*More family drama for Halle Berry.
Her estranged half-sister has now come forward to say the Oscar winner has cut herself off from her father’s side of the family.
Renee Berry, 51, is the daughter of Halle’s late African-American father Jerome Berry and Edwina Taylor – who broke up with him shortly before he started dating the actress’ mother Judith Hawkins.
Although Jerome and Judith split up when Halle was just four years old, Renee says she remained “very close” to the future Hollywood star while they were growing up.
But apparently, things have changed.
“I’m sad to say it seems like she does not want anything to do with us. I have not spoken to her in about five years, Renee told the Daily Mirror. “I tried to contact her through her website, to congratulate her on her Oscar, but no one got back to me.”
“We would love to meet Nahla, Renee continued. “We are desperate to understand why Halle is so upset, why she feels she cannot be with us.”
Renee Berry
Renee, currently working in the food service industry in Alabama, claims Halle was angry with her when she made a public plea to visit Jerome when he was dying from Parkinson’s Disease.
In interviews over the years, Halle has alleged Jerome was a violent alcoholic who beat her mother Judith in front of her and sister Heidi. In an interview two years ago, Halle said: ‘I saw my mother battered, and could not do anything to stop it. My father was tyrannical, lashing out at her for no reason. I felt the effects that had on our family – I’ve experienced what these women have gone through.”
Despite Halle’s negative memories of her childhood with Jerome, Renee paints a very different picture of their father as a “good man.”
“My father never beat any of us. He would spank us from time to time, but he never abused us,” said Renee. “He liked a drink or two, like anyone else does, but he was not an alcoholic.”
Anybody who drinks like more than a couple of drinks……….
If these are Halle’s memories, and then to have your sister call/guilt you out..I don’t blame her giving shade. Besides, how the hell long ago was this nonsense?
I don’t know exactly what happened here, but it looks like a recurring picture.
Someone goes to Hollywood and get rich and famous and don’t want to have anything to do with their blood.
Looking forward to hear the spin which team Halle will put on this one.
i would dis them also, just for stories like this, don’t air family dirty laundry
don’t air family dirty laundry,hell yeah dis them
Wow, years of family drama. I wonder if she has anything to do with anyone in her dad’s family.
Does Halle get along with anybody? She holds some serious grudges. I remember her saying in an interview that when she was first starting out as an actress/model that she didn’t speak to her mom for a year for refusing to loan her money.
See?…”these” are the signs of a very much in need of therapy person! All these people with “negative” issues/experiences with her?, ain’t no damn “coinkeedink”! This is PROOF of what “I” & “some” others ‘on dis heeah board has ALWAYS said!,…she may be nice to “look at”?, but chick is NOT…”nice to know”! Simply?, she a bitter,selfish,evil female, who thinks her shyt don’t stink! And the ONLY reason she acknowledges her mother?, is b/c “Hollywood” excepts White, before…Black! She’s playing the “Mariah card”! You ain’t hardly seen HUH “Black peeps”, either!
P.S…..and again I say?, I hope that lil girl doesn’t become “fat” or grows out of her “cuteness”. She g’on really be in need of HER…”White side”!!! Sheeeesh!
Hell, that picture alone would scare anyone away!
That’s cold Dawn — *snickering on the low*
well dayum, u working at better-burger and probably calling halle trying to get a loan for some kockmaymee business scheme. i would cutcha party dress wearing behind off too.
The more I hear about Halle, the more I question her stories of abuse. If Halle’s version of her father isn’t completely accurate then she should be called out about it. When someone says that they are abused I,for the most part, take them at their word, but I’ve learned from experience that it’s not always completely true. I had a housemate back in grad school who always talked about how she was neglected and emotionally abused as a child; however, after we realized that she was completed
self-absorbed and somewhat neurotic we began to probe her more when she would talk about her family and came to the conclusive that much of what she was saying was exaggerated. She created a whole lot of drama in the house because everything had to be about her.
Yo..Hallle is a PROFESSIONAL…”lier”, not actress!
first of all did these siblings grow up together..if not hallie may have experienced a diffrent dad..maybe he did take advantage of the white mom…also maybe halie cut some fam off because i bet as she was growing up they thought she thought she was better than them because she was liter skined and cute in most black eyes.she cant be blamed for childhood ignorance….oh and now u want something….b….!
Halle may want to detach from someone who cannot relate to what Halle experienced, I can understand that. It’s like, forget about it!!! Now, come listen to me and hang out. Being in the industry demands focus; and if family members want to contain the artist, it is not going to happen. Being loving sometimes from a distance might be the best way if others are too toxic and cannot listen to what someone is saying.