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WHILE Halle Berry thought of suicide after her marriage to David Justice crumbled 10 years ago, she “is in the best place in her life that she has ever been,” a friend says. “She is in love, happy, healthy and has a movie that is going to be a hit.” Berry’s comments on suicide, which she originally made to Oprah Winfrey, were reported in Parade last week, and now she’s being inundated at the junket for “Perfect Stranger” with questions about suicide. “She just wants everyone to know [those feelings] have no relevance now,” the friend said. The movie opens April 13. Berry also heats up the pages of Esquire and, in a back-and-forth article by actress and journalist, she claims this will be her last interview. She says she looks forward to “. . . no more pressure to come up with an excuse as to why I don’t have a baby at forty, and finally, no more giving a magazine the power to paint a portrait of me that was just not true.”
This is just so sad….

Actress Halle Berry tried to commit suicide over her failed first marriage, she reveals in an upcoming interview.
Berry, 40, admits to Parade magazine that she tried to gas herself when her fiery union to Atlanta Braves baseball star David Justice collapsed, but pulled out at the last minute.
“I was sitting in my car, and I knew the gas was coming when I had an image of my mother finding me,” she tells the magazine.
The image of her stoic mother Judith, now 67, was enough to snap the blues out of Berry. “She sacrificed so much for her children, and to end my life would be an incredibly selfish thing to do. It was all about a relationship. My sense of worth was so low,” Berry says. “I promised myself I would never be a coward again.”
The actress also describes her subsequent marriage, to singer Eric Benet, as “really horrific … We were in sex rehab after one year. I wish I had left then, but I was putting everyone’s needs before mine,” says the Oscar winner, who next appears on-screen with Bruce Willis in the thriller Perfect Stranger.
Twice divorced Berry is now dating model Gabriel Aubry, after meeting the 31-year-old in Nov. 2005 during a Versace advertising shoot. Three months later they went public as a couple. Twice bitten, Berry rules out a third marriage.
“I will never, never get married again,” she told InStyle recently.
But she tells Parade she is determined to be a mother. “I’ve accomplished things I never thought I would,” she says. “Now my sights are set on a different chapter in my life, which is motherhood. That’s the goal I have very clearly set for myself.”
Pics: Halle Berry at the ”Perfect Stranger” photocall in Madrid, 3/28. She looks amazing!
Yeah, me too. Totally. Actually, I shoot more for the jeans I wore when I was 12.
Once a year, Halle Berry, 40, tries on the Mickey Mouse jeans she bought when she was 15.
“It’s my annual test,” she reveals in the April issue of InStyle. “I try them on once a year, and if I can still fit into them, all is good in the world!” Yeah, anyone else not fitting into the same jeans they bought 15 months ago, let alone 25 years ago?
Read interview highlights below as Halle opens up about her model boyfriend Gabriel Aubry, 31, marriage, and kids. Or pick up the magazine on newsstands now.
On actors who say their job is tough:
“Please. I can tell you some hard jobs, and we don’t have one. It’s fun.”
On boyfriend Gabriel Aubry:
“After my last relationship broke up I was feeling like, well, it wasn’t that I didn’t want to be in a relationship, it’s just that I thought it would be OK to be on my own. But he was disarmingly sweet and caring and different. In the past I’ve been attracted to BIG personalities. Gabriel was shy. He hardly talked to me at first. I had to work at this a little. It wasn’t a slam dunk; it wasn’t the guy just showering affection on me. It made it more interesting. We were equally matched – put it that way.”
On marriage:
“I will never, neverget married again. Actually it’s just that now I’ve come to a place where I think two people can share their lives without the ring, without the piece of paper.”
On kids:
“I definitely want children. Very much. I want my kids to realize it’s only through hard work that any success or real joy comes. It’s not about money, it’s the intangible rewards – having integrity and doing what you say you’re going to do.”
On life:
“Live life authentically – as who you really are and want to be. I won’t be looked down upon for making mistakes.”
On playing golf:
“I’m not good at it. And it eats at me that I can’t master it, can’t get my brain around it. I even had lessons with David Leadbetter, one of the best instructors in the world. I just want to be a decent golfer and have the guys be happy that I’m with them, not like ‘Oh, damn, here comes Halle.’”
On hardships:
“I’ve had to learn about optimism. At times, I thought things were going to break me. But somehow, through those experiences, this optimistic person evolved. Now I know nothing will break me.”
On not being judgmental:
“We are all trying to make our way, find our niche, our purpose and our mate. We each have our own way of figuring it out. Who’s to say my way is the right way?”
On childhood friends:
“They’re struggling to make it with five kids or they’re going through a divorce, or they’re trying to change careers, so we’re talking about real life, not Hollywood. Your old friends know you’re just regular folk. You don’t have to be that person.”
