Halle Berry Reveals Why She Attended the 2025 Oscars Without Boyfriend Van Hunt

Mar. 15, 2025

Halle Berry at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, California, on March 2, 2025; Van Hunt in Hollywood, California, on Nov. 13, 2021.Photo:Lionel Hahn/Getty; Presley Ann/Getty

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Van Huntis on childcare duty!

The Oscar winner and former Bond girl — who’s mom to daughterNahla, 16, and sonMaceo-Robert, 11 — was at Sunday’s ceremony to introduce atribute to James Bond, sparkling onstage in a silver body-hugging mirroredChristian Sirianomermaid gown.

Berry also planted a smooch onAdrien Brodyon the red carpet, giving Brody a taste of his own medicine 22 years after he kissed an unsuspecting Berry at the 75th Academy Awards. (The 2003 moment was laughed off at the time, but has since been criticized.)

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The actress later shared a video of the moment on herInstagram gridalongside a cheeky caption. “Surpriseee@adrienbrody!! I had to get some payback 😉🫶🏽,” Berry wrote.

“I LOVE YOU SOOO MUCH ❤️❤️❤️,” wrote Brody, 51, in a comment on Berry’s post later than evening, after winning Best Actor for his performance inThe Brutalist.

“I mean,how can you deny a mana kiss with Halle Berry?” added Chapman, 48.

Berry and Hunt, meanwhile, have been together since 2020, and the actress even recently shared a sweetInstagram tributeto her beau onValentine’s Day.

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While appearing on the Feb. 24 episode ofThe Drew Barrymore Show, the actress spoke about her relationships and said, “I found my guy later in life,” referring to musician Hunt, 54.

When hostDrew Barrymoreasked her guest “how do people meet” these days, Berry said, “Drew, I used to have this problem too.” Added Barrymore, 50,who has also been divorced three times, “I mean, it’s hard out here.”

“It’s hard in these streets,” Berry agreed. “I’ve heard people say, ‘Something must be wrong with Halle Berry;she can’t keep a man.’ Who’s to say Iwantto keep a man? I don’t want to keep the wrong man. Like, I’m not crazy, right?”

“So when you find that you make a mistake — we all make mistakes. We have a right to say, ‘Oh God, this was a mistake. Let me start again.’ We have the right to do that,” she added.

source: people.com