Halle Berry’s perimenopause symptoms were mistaken for herpes.
The 57-year-old actress was convinced she was going to “skip” any symptoms associated with a woman’s hormone levels dropping and periods stopping, but when she was 54 and dating “the man of [her] dreams”, Van Hunt, she found sex increasingly painful.
Speaking to First Lady Jill Biden at the A Day of Unreasonable Conversation summit at the Getty Centre in Los Angeles on Monday, Halle said: “First of all, my ego told me that I was going to skip it — I’m very safe, I’m healthy, I managed to get myself off of insulin and manage my diabetes since I’m 20 years old.”
The Bruised actress then told how the pain after sex led her to visit her doctor, who told her she had the worst case of herpes he’d seen, prompting her and Van to get tested, only for neither of them to have the STI.