London: Actress Halle Berry says she was left damaged after she watched her mother "beaten day after day after day" and get "kicked down stairs" by her husband, when she was a child.
The 48-year-old actress, who has a six-year-old daughter, Nahla, from a previous relationship and 16-month-old son Maceo with husband Olivier Martinez, was just five-year-old when she witnessed domestic violence and that has stayed with her, reported Female First.
"I'm a victim of domestic violence. I wasn't married to a man that beat me up, but my mother was. Knowing that she wanted nothing more then for her little girls to see her be empowered and be a woman of strength, but having no way to make that happen was heartbreaking for me," Berry said.
"She stayed for too long and her children, my sister and I, saw far too much and I've suffered the damage of being a child of domestic violence," Berry said.
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