Ex-MLB star opens up about Halle Berry divorce

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Former Atlanta Braves and New York Yankees star David Justice spoke out about his past relationship with actress Halle Berry.

Justice and Berry married in 1993 and got divorced more than four years later. Berry filed for divorce in April 1996, citing "irreconcilable differences." Justice then filed his own divorce papers two weeks later. It was made official in June 1997.

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David Justice of the Braves and his wife, actress Halle Berry, at their home in 1994 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Ronald C. Modra/Getty Images)

The World Series champion appeared on Thursday’s edition of the "All the Smoke" podcast and talked about what led to their split.

"Because I was young and I had only, honestly, been in one relationship before her, my knowledge and my understanding, my wisdom around relationships just wasn’t vast," he said.

"So, I’m looking at my mom and I’m a Midwest guy. So, in my mind, I’m thinking a wife at that time should cook, clean. Then I’m thinking, ‘OK, if we have kids, is this the woman I want to have kids with and build a family with?’"

In the mid to late 1990s, Berry had a contract with Revlon and had been in movies like "Boomerang," "Jungle Fever" and "The Last Boy Scout."

The Yankees' David Justice after hitting an RBI double against the Mets that tied the score during the third game of the World Series at Shea Stadium in New York on Oct. 24, 2000. (H. Darr Beiser/USA Today-USA Today Network)

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"At that time, as a young guy, she don’t cook, don’t clean, don’t really seem like motherly, and then we start