Halle Berry, 57, details herpes scare caused by perimenopause symptoms

“I’m very safe, I’m healthy, I managed to get myself off of insulin and manage my diabetes since [I was] 20 years old,” she explained.

Perimenopause is the “transitional time around menopause” and can include several symptoms that are “caused by the changing levels of hormones in the body” –– including mood changes, night sweats and vaginal dryness –– according to Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Despite a woman’s health habits, every woman will go through menopause –– unless a woman got their ovaries “removed before puberty,” according to HealthPartners.

The “Monster’s Ball” actress told the story in front of fellow A-Listers like Kerry Washington, Jane Fonda and Paris Hilton. She said she wanted to raise awareness because she needs help to “change the way culture views women” at this stage of their lives.

“And we’re not exactly at the end. We’re sitting up here, two women who are clearly down the path of life, we are not done. We’re just getting started in our next act,” Berry continued.

Berry ended her story by telling the audience, “Changing the way women and men feel about women during their midlife and how they feel about this — which used to be a dirty little word — menopause, perimenopause, and we in this room have to change that… it can’t just be the doom and gloom story. This is a glorious time of life.”

Berry has been in a relationship with Hunt since 2020 when they bonded over quarantine. The two do not share any children together, but the actress co-parents two kids with two of her exes.

She shares daughter Nahla Ariela Aubry, 16, with ex-boyfriend Gabriel Aubry and son Maceo-Robert Martinez, 10, with ex-husband Olivier Martinez.