Halle Berry is slamming her ex-husband Eric Benet who claims that he was a sex addict when he cheated on Berry numerous times throughout their marriage, which officially ended in divorce back in 2005.
Berry, 58, talked about Benet’s claims while discussing her movie roles and other topics with podcast hosts Dax Shepard and Monica Padman on their “Armchair Expert” podcast when asked if she was attracted to addicts.
“Well I had one husband who said he was a sex addict but I don’t f-cking believe that sh-t. That’s some bullsh-t” she said (h/t Atlanta Black Star).
Back in 2004, Benet made the claims during an interview with ABC News: “I am not a sex addict. I am a person who … through a series of emotional events, troubles, challenges, made some really, really stupid, painful mistakes.”
Benet also denied that he had sexual intercourse with the women he had cheated on Berry with, admitting that exchanging “verbally inappropriate” messages and “physical contact that was extremely inappropriate and wrong in a marriage.
Benet again spoke about it in 2008 – “For me the sexual addiction thing was, I really don’t feel like I’m any more of a sex addict than any other man. I went to this therapy as a certain condition of moving forward in the marriage,” he said, adding that going to therapy, “was a condition for us to move forward in the marriage,” noting that it was a “group therapy type of thing.”
“I think there is such a thing as sexual addiction,” he stated, “Then I think there’s such a thing as going through some stuff in your life either in your relationships where you make some bad choices.”
