Halle Berry shares relatable reason she has NOT accepted her boyfriend's marriage proposal... after 3 divorces

Halle Berry still has not accepted her partner's proposal.

The 59-year-old star has been with her boyfriend Van Hunt for almost six years, and she revealed last summer that he had already popped the question.

Now, she told January/February 2026 issue of The Cut: 'I haven't said "yes." I don't think we need to be married to have a meaningful relationship. I don't know if we will ever get married.'

Berry insisted 'health reasons' or being about to make vital medical decisions as each other's legal spouse are the only exceptions to her rule.

The Oscar-winning star has been married three times before - to David Justice, Eric Benet and Olivier Martinez - and she explained that each breakup happened for a reason.

She said: 'After my third divorce, people started to say, "What's wrong with her? She's crazy. She can't keep a man."'

She added, 'And I would always argue, "Who says I want to keep a man if he's not the right man?"'

Now, she's incredibly happy with Van, adding: 'I'm in the best relationship I have ever had.'

Last summer, Van insisted his proposal to Halle - who has Nahla, 18, with former boyfriend Gabriel Aubry and Maceo, 12, with Olivier - was 'still on hold.'

Speaking to Today.com, Hunt said: 'I put out the proposal, and it's still on hold as you can see.

'It's just out there floating. You know, maybe you can encourage her.'

Berry added: 'Well, I've been married three times. Van has been married once, and so no, we don't feel like we have to get married to validate our love in any way. We don't.'

At the time, she admitted she does think they will walk down the aisle one day.

She teased: 'I think we will get married just because, out of the people I've been married to, this is the person I should have married.

'And I feel like I should, we should get married, but it's not because we feel like we have to. I think it's something that we would like to do just because we want that expression.'

And pressed on when they are likely to wed, she said: 'Soon.'

Berry was accused of fixing her prom queen ballot because the school didn't want a 'Black girl' to win.

The Academy Award winning actress - who is the first and only Black woman to win the best actress prize, for 2001 thriller Monster's Ball - can still recall the racism she was subjected to at high school, when she won the vote but was made to flip a coin with a white student to decide the winner.

She told The Cut: 'As a Black girl, I was not the symbol of who they wanted for their queen.'

She added: 'Another thing nobody really gets about me is that I've been a fighter my whole life — fighting to be seen for who I really am, fighting to be taken seriously as an artist, fighting the stigma of beauty.'

Halle also insisted that despite being 'wildly proud' of her Oscars win, she was hoping it would have a greater impact on her career.

She said: 'That Oscar didn't necessarily change the course of my career. After I won it, I thought there was going to be, like, a script truck showing up outside my front door.

'While I was wildly proud of it, I was still Black that next morning. Directors were still saying, 'If we put a Black woman in this role, what does this mean for the whole story? Do I have to cast a Black man? Then it's a Black movie. Black movies don't sell overseas.'

The 59-year-old star - who has appeared in 45 feature films to date - once warned Oscar nominee Cynthia Erivo that the recognition wouldn't 'change her life'.

She said to her: 'You goddamn deserve it, but I don't know that it's going to change your life. It cannot be the validation for what you do, right?'

Now, Halle insisted her success comes from the simple fact she is getting to do what she enjoys.

She explained: 'As a Black woman, now almost 60, I still get to work in movies and do what I love. I'm winning.'