Talented Bond babe Halle Berry revealed this week that she is to take a three-month break from movie-making in order to focus on her marriage. The actress, who picked up an Oscar earlier this year for her role in Monster's Ball is keen to try and save her 22-month union with R&B singer Eric Benet.
Thirty-two-year-old Eric reportedly had a liaison with an ex-girlfriend while his wife was on location lensing Die Another Day.
He has since been treated in a rehabilitation centre for sex addicts. "We are facing a crisis," admitted the actress, who has adopted Eric's ten-year-old daughter India. "But we're very much united, and are in this for the long haul," she added.
Halle's first marriage to major league baseball player David Justice ended in 1996 after three years, leaving the star contemplating suicide. She has revealed she was so desperate at the time that she sat in her car in the garage and turned on the ignition. As the fumes began to build up she had a change of mind, however. "I'm not proud of that moment in my life, but honestly I was ready to give up. My divorce was really hard on me."
"It's time to take a three-month break, to be with my family and just to regroup," she said this week.
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