In a recent interview with BET, actor Shemar Moore talks about his relationships with Halle Berry and Toni Braxton. He calls Halle a “necessary experience” and Toni a “fun ride.”
“[Toni Braxton] was my first Hollywood relationship. I was a baby, I did not know [expletive]. I had just graduated from college, I had no money and I was on ‘Young and the Restless.’ She called my agent when she was shooting a video in Miami, and it just went from there. I was like the little kid who found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. It was a wild ride with Toni. She would never sing for me, though. That always bothered me.
“[Halle Berry] was the first woman to really knock my socks off. I fell hard for Halle. A lot of people now know we dated, but we had to keep it hush-hush at the time because she was fresh off her divorce from David Justice. I was smitten not just because of who she was, but because we were so similar in so many ways. She was bi-racial; she was kind of going through the same things I was in Hollywood. Toni was a fun ride, but Halle was a necessary experience. It made me much stronger as a man, and knowing the caliber of woman I want in the future.”
