Halle Berry's first husband ended their marriage because she didn't "cook and clean"

Speaking on Matt Barnes' All the Smoke podcast, he said: "My knowledge and my understanding, my wisdom around relationships just wasn't vast. So, I'm looking at my mom - and I'm a Midwest guy. So, in my mind, I'm thinking a wife at that time should cook, clean, [be] traditional, you know?

"Then I'm thinking, 'OK, if we have kids, is this the woman I want to have kids with and build a family with?' At that time, as a young guy - she don't cook, don't clean, don't really seem like motherly, and then we start having issues."

David - who said the couple didn't receive a lot of "negative attention until I decided to leave her in 1996" - claimed that Halle proposed to him after five months of dating and he accepted, despite having doubts.

He said: "She asked me to marry her after knowing me for five months. I said OK, because I couldn't say no. Who's going to say no at that time?"

"I don't know if my heart was really into it, but I didn't want to make her feel bad and say no, you know, or [if] I was just in the moment."

And, he blames her career and his lack of experience in relationships for the demise of their marriage.

He said: "We spent a lot of time apart because she was doing movies in this country, that country. And we honestly probably could have made it if I knew about therapy. If we knew about therapy, we probably could have made it.

"We never had any major issues like that. It's just... because I was young and had only been in one real relationship before her."