Oct. 6, 2026
NEW: Halle Berry Fires Back In Court Filing, “I Would Never Hurt Our Child”
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RSS Feed Halle Berry has filed an emergency request, asking the court to restore her 50/50 custody arrangement with her ex-husband Olivier Martinez regarding their 13-year-old son Maceo. Berry gives a very different account of what happened between her and Maceo on September 26th, saying she would never hurt her son. Martinez claimed Berry physically abused Maceo and placed him in a chokehold, which led a judge to issue a temporary restraining order against the Oscar winning actress. Berry also goes into detail what she claims are examples of Martinez’s negative influence over her son designed to damage her relationship with Maceo.
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Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Tuesday, October 6th, and Halle Berry has fired back. She has answered the accusations in a restraining order that she abused her child. Her version of events sounds much different and, well, maybe even more likely. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. And maybe that's not the right thing to say, Robes. A lot of this didn't make sense. A lot of the story didn't make sense when we first heard it. She's putting some pieces together here for us, Robes, in a way. And it comes with photo and video evidence, apparently.
00:00:39
Speaker 2: That's right. And look, what we heard from Olivier Martinez was his request for a restraining order. And all of that information came from their son, Maceo. And so he was claiming what Maceo told him because obviously he wasn't in the room where it happened. And so now, finally, we are hearing from Halle Berry, and she makes it very clear, and her quote is, that really stands out, I would never hurt our child.
00:01:11
Speaker 1: And that's where it starts, right? She is flat out denying what has been put in a restraining order that has been granted, frankly. She is denying the headline-making allegation flat out.
00:01:24
Speaker 2: And it makes sense. Courts almost always will defer when they don't know what happened to protecting the child at all costs. So if there's even some sort of allegation or insinuation, they will overreact in an effort to protect the child and make sure the child is safe. And so that makes sense why all of this may have taken place the way it did. But again, now Halle Berry has filed her own court papers, and she is first and foremost asking to restore the 50-50 custody... She's also asking to be reinstated as the tie-breaking authority. Apparently they had that already figured out in their divorce settlement. And then she is also asking the court to force Olivier Martinez to attend their court-ordered therapy session, saying he has not been going and she thinks it's important. But she gets really detailed into what she says happens, and then she makes many, many, many allegations against her ex-husband about how he is influencing their son and literally pitting their son against her.
00:02:30
Speaker 1: This is sad. This is just sad. Look, this happens in many families. It just doesn't play out like this publicly. And this is just sad to see her going through it. And I say her. The whole family right now is going... through this. There's an older daughter involved in this thing as well. It's just, it's sad.
00:02:50
Speaker 2: And look, maybe the only thing that was nice to see that came out of some of this was, and look, we hate the idea that someone's being stalked or that paparazzi is following celebrities, but it was nice to see at least that Hallie And her fiance and Maceo were all together on Sunday. His birthday was Monday. So he turned 13. He's now officially a teenager. But the day before his birthday, they were taking him to some trampoline indoor soccer park. And so, look, they are spending time together. It's not as if they're not. together or that they're estranged. So they're trying to work through this really, really messy situation that all apparently began last weekend, correct? The weekend before last, September 26th. And look, in Hallie's filing, she did, as you pointed out, include photos and videos of her son. And she has timestamped videos. which she claims back up her version of events and totally refutes what her ex-husband said happened.
00:03:54
Speaker 1: Let's start with, before you get into her version, just a quick reminder of his version. It was simply that, right, they got into an altercation. Mom put the kid in a chokehold.
00:04:06
Speaker 2: Yes.
00:04:06
Speaker 1: Correct?
00:04:06
Speaker 2: And said, who's dominant now?
00:04:08
Speaker 1: That thing, yeah.
00:04:09
Speaker 2: And was choking him, physically abusing their son, and claims that the son then reached out and said, Dad, please pick me up.
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Speaker 1: Hurry.
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Speaker 2: Hurry. And he also alleged that there were several instances of abuse over the past several years.
00:04:21
Speaker 1: Didn't specify on those, right?
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Speaker 2: He didn't.
00:04:22
Speaker 1: He just mentioned those.
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Speaker 2: He said verbal and emotional abuse.
00:04:25
Speaker 1: Okay. So because of that accusation, those headlines were everywhere that Oscar winner Halle Berry restraining order against her after she is accused of choking her child.
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Speaker 2: Correct. Okay. That's good to put that out there first.
00:04:40
Speaker 1: I agree. Yes.
00:04:41
Speaker 2: So in her version of events, he was playing the video, virtual reality video game. He had the goggles on and you can see the photos are out in some of the outlets. She told him to stop. He refused to listen. So she went to the bathroom and that was the vantage point where you see these photos and videos that she presented to the court. And when he saw his mom recording him, apparently he walked over and they began playfully roughhousing, but the wrestling escalated And she said to him, you don't have anything to prove instead of look who's dominant now. She says she tried to take the headset off of him. And that's when he started shoving her. The confrontation got heated. Her fiance, Van Hunt, came in and got in between them. And she claims that is when her son threatened to leave and to go back to his dad's house. And so she said that's when she texted Olivier pleading with him. to please enforce appropriate boundaries, that he was being physical with her, that he was being disrespectful to her. And she says, here's the deal. When my son left, he had no marks on his body, no marks on his neck. And she said, I would never hurt our child.
00:06:06
Speaker 1: You have right. There's no suggestion or video or anything that he has marks on him.
00:06:11
Speaker 2: No, but she wanted to point out, hey, if I choked him, if I physically assaulted him, there would be marks. I did none of that. And that he pushed her, that he attacked her.
00:06:23
Speaker 1: And again, the way her words are that he pushed his mother. Right? She doesn't go too far beyond that, not striking her or anything.
00:06:34
Speaker 2: No, she didn't say that. And she said that they were playfully roughhousing.
00:06:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, you could see that. Yes.
00:06:38
Speaker 2: And look, I think they have done that before. She's talked about that before. But interestingly enough, when he started to get more physical with her, instead of her saying, who's dominant now? She claims, Maceo said, or she said to him, you don't have anything to prove.
00:06:53
Speaker 1: Damn, man.
00:06:54
Speaker 2: So it's tough. And look, she does have... Someone who was in the house, her fiance, was there. And according to her version of events, he was in the room when things started to get rough, and he's the one who actually got in between them to break it up.
00:07:11
Speaker 1: My goodness, Rose, what happened here? And again, babe, all that that was out there, it's important to follow up on the story and get her version out there and get her story out there because all we heard, for a few days now, were those headlines, babe. And these are difficult stories to cover. And we, every time, what do you do with an accusation when somebody's accused of some of the most heinous things, even if it's not true, once you just have certain things attached to your name, it's hard to get away from. So, Rob, this is, it's difficult and tricky. We're tiptoeing because of a personal, like, dealings and history with Hallie, that we've had. But this is important, Ro, to get her version. It's important for her to get her version out there to combat the headlines.
00:07:57
Speaker 2: Look, this is so nasty and tough because for Olivier to put this all out there in a court filing, he knew this was all going to be made public. And now this is so difficult. So now she has to push back and file her own court filing. And now all this other stuff is getting out. So To that extent, you mentioned her older daughter. She has an 18-year-old daughter with Gabriel Aubrey, and her name's Nala. Nala actually submitted something along with her mother in this court filing to respond to Olivier's allegation that she said that thing to her son, that her ex-husband is a white bitch who takes money from a black woman. So Nala actually made a declaration saying she's never heard her mom make racially charged comments And she said that Olivier's allegations are, quote, completely inconsistent with the mom I know. So the fact that now her 18-year-old daughter has to get involved defending her mother's mothering, that's tough.
00:09:01
Speaker 1: What she's doing, I mean, that's her little brother, too.
00:09:04
Speaker 2: Right?
00:09:04
Speaker 1: That's a family member and somebody she loves. And I don't know what the, you know, I'm not saying their allegiance is here or there, but, bro, she's, this has happened to the whole family. So now the daughter has to be on the record in some way.
00:09:16
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:09:17
Speaker 1: I'm trying to give everybody some space for being in their own truth here. Yes. Including Martinez. Robes, if his son came home and told him something and he felt it was serious enough to take action, okay. But Robes, Maceo, was he a 13-year-old kid who was upset and did what sometimes a lot of kids do, but then didn't expect this to become a restraining order or a legal issue or a tabloid issue? And did he get out of hand or robes the other possibility? Does he hate Halle Berry that much, the ex? And there's some evidence along the way Robes, at least in their history. Is he trying to get back at her? Or is anybody making an argument that, yes, it happened exactly the way Maceo said it was because the first headlines, Robes said, jumped on top of him and was choking him were the first headlines.
00:10:12
Speaker 2: It's tough. These are tough headlines, and the truth is probably somewhere in between all of that. But in this filing, Hallie goes now off on Martinez and says that basically he has tried to pit her or their son against her. She said he attempts to align Maceo with him and against me in many areas of our child's life and activities, which causes Maceo to be angry with me about private issues relating to Maceo, which Olivier and I were discussing at the time. When Maceo would come home from his custodial time with Olivier, he would be angry and combative. It took Maceo two to three days to acclimate to being at home, and when he would go back to Olivier, the cycle would start all over again. I also perceived Maceo to repeat disputes that Olivier and I discuss in private and take Olivier's side or position in that dispute. If the dispute related to a decision regarding Maceo, for example, about soccer, school, or therapy, Maceo knew about it before Olivier and I even reached a decision with respect to a particular issue and would tell me what he and Olivier are going to do without my input, completely disregarding my authority as his mother.
00:11:36
Speaker 1: Welcome to divorced parenting. Every divorced parent is listening to that and has been through something that she just listed.
00:11:45
Speaker 2: Absolutely. This is such an unfortunate common experience for so many people who have shared custody.
00:11:53
Speaker 1: But she is in this situation using that to say this is why behavioral issues are happening. It's actually because of the guy on the other side. Absolutely. Oh, my God.
00:12:03
Speaker 2: And then think about all the families who have a new person in their life. She even brings this up. She said, Olivier's continued refusal to accept my relationship with Van, who plays an important part in Maceo's life. His lack of acceptance of Van has resulted in him refusing to permit Maceo to work in a family therapy setting with me and Van and as a means to continue to create a healthy environment for our son. So she's trying... to take him to therapy. He won't even let Van be a part of it. And so, look, this is tough. This is tough stuff. And she says she doesn't agree that her son should be permitted to make decisions regarding his education, health, extracurricular activities, and general welfare. This is people who have two very different parenting styles who hate each other.
00:12:54
Speaker 1: A black woman from the U.S. and a dude from France, right? Are C'est la vie versus you better be a bad mofo here in the United States as a black man.
00:13:06
Speaker 2: I'm raising you as a black man.
00:13:08
Speaker 1: And he's being read. Really? I mean, it's just a different, it's showing up here in what she's describing. Nobody said one style is right or wrong. But, Rose, these conflicts happen all the time. We are seeing them. It's amazing. You say that all of that funny line, oh, celebrities, they're just like us.
00:13:25
Speaker 2: They kind of are. They might have more means. They might have higher priced attorneys. but the fights are the same and the feelings are the same. And so when we come back, we're going to tell you because, yes, Halle put this all in the court system yesterday. It didn't take long for Olivier Martinez to fire back with his response. Welcome back, everyone, to Amy and TJ Halle Berry defending herself and giving a very different version of events of what happened on September 26th with her then 12-year-old son, Maceo. So she wants the court to restore the previous arrangement. She wants 50-50 custody. She wants to have the tie-breaking vote. And she also wants the court to know what she's been dealing with with her ex-husband. So she made some very pointed accusations against his, she claims, his role in basically aligning her son against her. And she feels very frustrated by the fact that she doesn't feel like she has parental control over her son's well-being. So, Olivia Martinez filed a response late last night and asked the court to deny Barry's request to return things back to where they were. He claims that he's not doing the things that Hallie says. He said he has not resisted their son getting help for neurodivergent behavioral issues. He said Hallie has deliberately misrepresented my behavior where Maceo's mental health treatment is concerned. He asks that the current temporary restraining order stay in place, and here's where he went for the jugular. He alleged that there continues to be a risk of, quote, immediate danger to their son after she allegedly physically abused him.
00:15:28
Speaker 1: She is an imminent threat to the child.
00:15:31
Speaker 2: That's what he's claiming. That is what he is claiming.
00:15:34
Speaker 1: That's heavy, baby.
00:15:36
Speaker 2: Yes, and he also claims, and this even seems petty, maybe this is a lawyer thing, that Halle Berry improperly filed an emergency request rather than a regularly calendared request for an order. Is he saying that because she's trying to get extra publicity surrounding her response to his accusations? But that's even how petty it is. He's upset how she filed the order in addition to what she said in it. That's how petty it is.
00:16:08
Speaker 1: It's just, it's heartbreaking. There's still a 13-year-old kid in the middle of this. Nala's what, 18, 19?
00:16:13
Speaker 2: Nala's 18.
00:16:14
Speaker 1: There's still, these are kids, this is a family. And family, man, family is hard. We can tell you family is really hard. And anybody listening knows that. The difficulty you have, baby, in navigating all this stuff, 13-year-old girl, 13-year-old boy, Two different crises in the house, but crises nonetheless. Just the toddlers, the all kinds of stuff you deal with, divorces, what kid wants to go here, who gets what, blending families, robes, all this stuff is hard. To have to do it in public when people are taking shots, it seems, at each other and still at the heart of it, babe, these kids are struggling just like any other kids in a family. But they have an extra thing now. They have to go to school and everybody around them knows it.
00:17:06
Speaker 2: Isn't that tough?
00:17:06
Speaker 1: Everybody around them knows their stuff. Everybody on social media knows their stuff. I just wish these people, all of them, all of them could find peace. Because we've been a part of this fight for years.
00:17:21
Speaker 2: And look to the point where I think most people understand that once things like this get public, they don't get better. They get uglier. They get messier. And the people who pay the ultimate price are the kids. To your point, if they had kept this private, as angry as they might be at one another, but if there hadn't been court filings issued... Maceo could go to school and privately be carrying some of the weight of what he's been experiencing at these two homes. But now he has to know that all of his friends and his friends' parents are whispering about it, talking about it. That is another layer of pain that was not necessary, unfortunately. But that's where we are. And look, our hearts go out to all of them, as I'm sure most people's do. especially people who've been in a position similar to this where you know how tough and difficult it can be when you're dealing with warring exes. But we just wanted to hop on and make sure that Halle Berry's version of events certainly also gets just as much recognition as what her ex was saying about her. And with that, everyone, we always appreciate you listening to us. I'm Amy Robach alongside TJ Holmes. We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Tuesday, October 6th, and Halle Berry has fired back. She has answered the accusations in a restraining order that she abused her child. Her version of events sounds much different and, well, maybe even more likely. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. And maybe that's not the right thing to say, Robes. A lot of this didn't make sense. A lot of the story didn't make sense when we first heard it. She's putting some pieces together here for us, Robes, in a way. And it comes with photo and video evidence, apparently.
00:00:39
Speaker 2: That's right. And look, what we heard from Olivier Martinez was his request for a restraining order. And all of that information came from their son, Maceo. And so he was claiming what Maceo told him because obviously he wasn't in the room where it happened. And so now, finally, we are hearing from Halle Berry, and she makes it very clear, and her quote is, that really stands out, I would never hurt our child.
00:01:11
Speaker 1: And that's where it starts, right? She is flat out denying what has been put in a restraining order that has been granted, frankly. She is denying the headline-making allegation flat out.
00:01:24
Speaker 2: And it makes sense. Courts almost always will defer when they don't know what happened to protecting the child at all costs. So if there's even some sort of allegation or insinuation, they will overreact in an effort to protect the child and make sure the child is safe. And so that makes sense why all of this may have taken place the way it did. But again, now Halle Berry has filed her own court papers, and she is first and foremost asking to restore the 50-50 custody... She's also asking to be reinstated as the tie-breaking authority. Apparently they had that already figured out in their divorce settlement. And then she is also asking the court to force Olivier Martinez to attend their court-ordered therapy session, saying he has not been going and she thinks it's important. But she gets really detailed into what she says happens, and then she makes many, many, many allegations against her ex-husband about how he is influencing their son and literally pitting their son against her.
00:02:30
Speaker 1: This is sad. This is just sad. Look, this happens in many families. It just doesn't play out like this publicly. And this is just sad to see her going through it. And I say her. The whole family right now is going... through this. There's an older daughter involved in this thing as well. It's just, it's sad.
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Speaker 2: And look, maybe the only thing that was nice to see that came out of some of this was, and look, we hate the idea that someone's being stalked or that paparazzi is following celebrities, but it was nice to see at least that Hallie And her fiance and Maceo were all together on Sunday. His birthday was Monday. So he turned 13. He's now officially a teenager. But the day before his birthday, they were taking him to some trampoline indoor soccer park. And so, look, they are spending time together. It's not as if they're not. together or that they're estranged. So they're trying to work through this really, really messy situation that all apparently began last weekend, correct? The weekend before last, September 26th. And look, in Hallie's filing, she did, as you pointed out, include photos and videos of her son. And she has timestamped videos. which she claims back up her version of events and totally refutes what her ex-husband said happened.
00:03:54
Speaker 1: Let's start with, before you get into her version, just a quick reminder of his version. It was simply that, right, they got into an altercation. Mom put the kid in a chokehold.
00:04:06
Speaker 2: Yes.
00:04:06
Speaker 1: Correct?
00:04:06
Speaker 2: And said, who's dominant now?
00:04:08
Speaker 1: That thing, yeah.
00:04:09
Speaker 2: And was choking him, physically abusing their son, and claims that the son then reached out and said, Dad, please pick me up.
00:04:16
Speaker 1: Hurry.
00:04:16
Speaker 2: Hurry. And he also alleged that there were several instances of abuse over the past several years.
00:04:21
Speaker 1: Didn't specify on those, right?
00:04:22
Speaker 2: He didn't.
00:04:22
Speaker 1: He just mentioned those.
00:04:23
Speaker 2: He said verbal and emotional abuse.
00:04:25
Speaker 1: Okay. So because of that accusation, those headlines were everywhere that Oscar winner Halle Berry restraining order against her after she is accused of choking her child.
00:04:37
Speaker 2: Correct. Okay. That's good to put that out there first.
00:04:40
Speaker 1: I agree. Yes.
00:04:41
Speaker 2: So in her version of events, he was playing the video, virtual reality video game. He had the goggles on and you can see the photos are out in some of the outlets. She told him to stop. He refused to listen. So she went to the bathroom and that was the vantage point where you see these photos and videos that she presented to the court. And when he saw his mom recording him, apparently he walked over and they began playfully roughhousing, but the wrestling escalated And she said to him, you don't have anything to prove instead of look who's dominant now. She says she tried to take the headset off of him. And that's when he started shoving her. The confrontation got heated. Her fiance, Van Hunt, came in and got in between them. And she claims that is when her son threatened to leave and to go back to his dad's house. And so she said that's when she texted Olivier pleading with him. to please enforce appropriate boundaries, that he was being physical with her, that he was being disrespectful to her. And she says, here's the deal. When my son left, he had no marks on his body, no marks on his neck. And she said, I would never hurt our child.
00:06:06
Speaker 1: You have right. There's no suggestion or video or anything that he has marks on him.
00:06:11
Speaker 2: No, but she wanted to point out, hey, if I choked him, if I physically assaulted him, there would be marks. I did none of that. And that he pushed her, that he attacked her.
00:06:23
Speaker 1: And again, the way her words are that he pushed his mother. Right? She doesn't go too far beyond that, not striking her or anything.
00:06:34
Speaker 2: No, she didn't say that. And she said that they were playfully roughhousing.
00:06:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, you could see that. Yes.
00:06:38
Speaker 2: And look, I think they have done that before. She's talked about that before. But interestingly enough, when he started to get more physical with her, instead of her saying, who's dominant now? She claims, Maceo said, or she said to him, you don't have anything to prove.
00:06:53
Speaker 1: Damn, man.
00:06:54
Speaker 2: So it's tough. And look, she does have... Someone who was in the house, her fiance, was there. And according to her version of events, he was in the room when things started to get rough, and he's the one who actually got in between them to break it up.
00:07:11
Speaker 1: My goodness, Rose, what happened here? And again, babe, all that that was out there, it's important to follow up on the story and get her version out there and get her story out there because all we heard, for a few days now, were those headlines, babe. And these are difficult stories to cover. And we, every time, what do you do with an accusation when somebody's accused of some of the most heinous things, even if it's not true, once you just have certain things attached to your name, it's hard to get away from. So, Rob, this is, it's difficult and tricky. We're tiptoeing because of a personal, like, dealings and history with Hallie, that we've had. But this is important, Ro, to get her version. It's important for her to get her version out there to combat the headlines.
00:07:57
Speaker 2: Look, this is so nasty and tough because for Olivier to put this all out there in a court filing, he knew this was all going to be made public. And now this is so difficult. So now she has to push back and file her own court filing. And now all this other stuff is getting out. So To that extent, you mentioned her older daughter. She has an 18-year-old daughter with Gabriel Aubrey, and her name's Nala. Nala actually submitted something along with her mother in this court filing to respond to Olivier's allegation that she said that thing to her son, that her ex-husband is a white bitch who takes money from a black woman. So Nala actually made a declaration saying she's never heard her mom make racially charged comments And she said that Olivier's allegations are, quote, completely inconsistent with the mom I know. So the fact that now her 18-year-old daughter has to get involved defending her mother's mothering, that's tough.
00:09:01
Speaker 1: What she's doing, I mean, that's her little brother, too.
00:09:04
Speaker 2: Right?
00:09:04
Speaker 1: That's a family member and somebody she loves. And I don't know what the, you know, I'm not saying their allegiance is here or there, but, bro, she's, this has happened to the whole family. So now the daughter has to be on the record in some way.
00:09:16
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:09:17
Speaker 1: I'm trying to give everybody some space for being in their own truth here. Yes. Including Martinez. Robes, if his son came home and told him something and he felt it was serious enough to take action, okay. But Robes, Maceo, was he a 13-year-old kid who was upset and did what sometimes a lot of kids do, but then didn't expect this to become a restraining order or a legal issue or a tabloid issue? And did he get out of hand or robes the other possibility? Does he hate Halle Berry that much, the ex? And there's some evidence along the way Robes, at least in their history. Is he trying to get back at her? Or is anybody making an argument that, yes, it happened exactly the way Maceo said it was because the first headlines, Robes said, jumped on top of him and was choking him were the first headlines.
00:10:12
Speaker 2: It's tough. These are tough headlines, and the truth is probably somewhere in between all of that. But in this filing, Hallie goes now off on Martinez and says that basically he has tried to pit her or their son against her. She said he attempts to align Maceo with him and against me in many areas of our child's life and activities, which causes Maceo to be angry with me about private issues relating to Maceo, which Olivier and I were discussing at the time. When Maceo would come home from his custodial time with Olivier, he would be angry and combative. It took Maceo two to three days to acclimate to being at home, and when he would go back to Olivier, the cycle would start all over again. I also perceived Maceo to repeat disputes that Olivier and I discuss in private and take Olivier's side or position in that dispute. If the dispute related to a decision regarding Maceo, for example, about soccer, school, or therapy, Maceo knew about it before Olivier and I even reached a decision with respect to a particular issue and would tell me what he and Olivier are going to do without my input, completely disregarding my authority as his mother.
00:11:36
Speaker 1: Welcome to divorced parenting. Every divorced parent is listening to that and has been through something that she just listed.
00:11:45
Speaker 2: Absolutely. This is such an unfortunate common experience for so many people who have shared custody.
00:11:53
Speaker 1: But she is in this situation using that to say this is why behavioral issues are happening. It's actually because of the guy on the other side. Absolutely. Oh, my God.
00:12:03
Speaker 2: And then think about all the families who have a new person in their life. She even brings this up. She said, Olivier's continued refusal to accept my relationship with Van, who plays an important part in Maceo's life. His lack of acceptance of Van has resulted in him refusing to permit Maceo to work in a family therapy setting with me and Van and as a means to continue to create a healthy environment for our son. So she's trying... to take him to therapy. He won't even let Van be a part of it. And so, look, this is tough. This is tough stuff. And she says she doesn't agree that her son should be permitted to make decisions regarding his education, health, extracurricular activities, and general welfare. This is people who have two very different parenting styles who hate each other.
00:12:54
Speaker 1: A black woman from the U.S. and a dude from France, right? Are C'est la vie versus you better be a bad mofo here in the United States as a black man.
00:13:06
Speaker 2: I'm raising you as a black man.
00:13:08
Speaker 1: And he's being read. Really? I mean, it's just a different, it's showing up here in what she's describing. Nobody said one style is right or wrong. But, Rose, these conflicts happen all the time. We are seeing them. It's amazing. You say that all of that funny line, oh, celebrities, they're just like us.
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Speaker 2: They kind of are. They might have more means. They might have higher priced attorneys. but the fights are the same and the feelings are the same. And so when we come back, we're going to tell you because, yes, Halle put this all in the court system yesterday. It didn't take long for Olivier Martinez to fire back with his response. Welcome back, everyone, to Amy and TJ Halle Berry defending herself and giving a very different version of events of what happened on September 26th with her then 12-year-old son, Maceo. So she wants the court to restore the previous arrangement. She wants 50-50 custody. She wants to have the tie-breaking vote. And she also wants the court to know what she's been dealing with with her ex-husband. So she made some very pointed accusations against his, she claims, his role in basically aligning her son against her. And she feels very frustrated by the fact that she doesn't feel like she has parental control over her son's well-being. So, Olivia Martinez filed a response late last night and asked the court to deny Barry's request to return things back to where they were. He claims that he's not doing the things that Hallie says. He said he has not resisted their son getting help for neurodivergent behavioral issues. He said Hallie has deliberately misrepresented my behavior where Maceo's mental health treatment is concerned. He asks that the current temporary restraining order stay in place, and here's where he went for the jugular. He alleged that there continues to be a risk of, quote, immediate danger to their son after she allegedly physically abused him.
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Speaker 1: She is an imminent threat to the child.
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Speaker 2: That's what he's claiming. That is what he is claiming.
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Speaker 1: That's heavy, baby.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and he also claims, and this even seems petty, maybe this is a lawyer thing, that Halle Berry improperly filed an emergency request rather than a regularly calendared request for an order. Is he saying that because she's trying to get extra publicity surrounding her response to his accusations? But that's even how petty it is. He's upset how she filed the order in addition to what she said in it. That's how petty it is.
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Speaker 1: It's just, it's heartbreaking. There's still a 13-year-old kid in the middle of this. Nala's what, 18, 19?
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Speaker 2: Nala's 18.
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Speaker 1: There's still, these are kids, this is a family. And family, man, family is hard. We can tell you family is really hard. And anybody listening knows that. The difficulty you have, baby, in navigating all this stuff, 13-year-old girl, 13-year-old boy, Two different crises in the house, but crises nonetheless. Just the toddlers, the all kinds of stuff you deal with, divorces, what kid wants to go here, who gets what, blending families, robes, all this stuff is hard. To have to do it in public when people are taking shots, it seems, at each other and still at the heart of it, babe, these kids are struggling just like any other kids in a family. But they have an extra thing now. They have to go to school and everybody around them knows it.
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Speaker 2: Isn't that tough?
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Speaker 1: Everybody around them knows their stuff. Everybody on social media knows their stuff. I just wish these people, all of them, all of them could find peace. Because we've been a part of this fight for years.
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Speaker 2: And look to the point where I think most people understand that once things like this get public, they don't get better. They get uglier. They get messier. And the people who pay the ultimate price are the kids. To your point, if they had kept this private, as angry as they might be at one another, but if there hadn't been court filings issued... Maceo could go to school and privately be carrying some of the weight of what he's been experiencing at these two homes. But now he has to know that all of his friends and his friends' parents are whispering about it, talking about it. That is another layer of pain that was not necessary, unfortunately. But that's where we are. And look, our hearts go out to all of them, as I'm sure most people's do. especially people who've been in a position similar to this where you know how tough and difficult it can be when you're dealing with warring exes. But we just wanted to hop on and make sure that Halle Berry's version of events certainly also gets just as much recognition as what her ex was saying about her. And with that, everyone, we always appreciate you listening to us. I'm Amy Robach alongside TJ Holmes. We'll talk to you soon.