The 58-year-old actor said episode happened while experiencing symptoms of perimenopause. Halle Berry has shared the “defining moment” she had after her doctor misdiagnosed her with herpes. Following the appointment, Berry said that she and her boyfriend, Van Hunt, “spent the next 72 hours kind of doing the blame game.”.
“We were trying to figure out who gave it to me, who gave it to him,” she continued. “And then a couple hours after that, my doctor called me and said: ‘You do not have herpes.’”. The Catwoman star questioned her symptoms before her doctor’s response encouraged her to do more research.
“This was a defining moment for me. I’m like, ‘What is this?’ He said, ‘I don’t know, that’s what it looked like,’” she added, referring to her doctor’s misdiagnosing her with herpes. “That sent me on my own reconnaissance, my own researching. And that’s when I came up with dry vagina syndrome that women have when they’re in perimenopause.”.
Berry acknowledged that she had all the symptoms of perimenopause, although “nobody had really had serious conversations” about those symptoms when she was 54. She said that menopause and perimenopause cannot “just be the doom and gloom story” and that it is in fact “a glorious time of life.”.
Berry then began to explain how she discovered that she was perimenopausal, first quipping that she thought she was going to skip the experience: “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.”.
