Halle Berry Says ‘Little Half’ of Her Died When Daughter ‘Obtained Her Coronary heart Damaged’

Halle Berry helps her daughter by a troublesome second.

At a roundtable occasion for her new film By no means Let Go in New York Metropolis, the actress, 58, opened up about how her 16-year-old daughter Nahla goes by her first heartbreak. Requested by PEOPLE what the toughest factor is about letting go as a mother, Berry responded that as a self-proclaimed “mama bear,” it has been troublesome to observe her daughter course of these robust emotions.

“She simply was in a factor and she or he’s acquired her coronary heart damaged,” Berry says of her teenage daughter. “By no means will get simpler. It is simply holding house realizing that that is all a part of rising, proper? We have all been there and realizing that in six months time, she’s going to overlook about it.”

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“However on this second, it is the only most necessary factor to be rejected and have a breakup and she or he appears like she’s dying. Just a little a part of me is dying and I can not inform her that as a result of she’ll simply say, ‘Mother, you do not perceive.'”

As a substitute, Berry says she’s making an attempt to commiserate together with her daughter and inform her how a lot the state of affairs “sucks.”

“So I simply should say, ‘Yeah, this sucks, proper? This sucks balls.’ I do know, and also you’re damage. And I do know I simply have to sit down in it together with her and that is actually exhausting to do.”

Berry shares her daughter with ex Gabriel Aubry. She can be mother to son Maceo, whom she shares with ex Olivier Martinez.

Talking with PEOPLE on the Los Angeles premiere of The Union in August, Berry shared how she just lately earned “cool factors” when her daughter Nahla met her costar Mark Wahlberg.

“Effectively, I acquired cool factors after I launched my daughter to Mark, as a result of she loves Daddy’s Residence,” Berry instructed PEOPLE. “That is certainly one of her favourite films. So after I acquired to introduce her to Mark, I believe it was the primary time in my complete profession the place she mentioned ‘Oh, you already know Mark Wahlberg? Okay you are cool.'”

She added that it was the “first time” Nahla had ever mentioned it. “I’ve met some actually wonderful folks, however she occurred to be a giant fan of his,” Berry instructed PEOPLE.