Who is David Justice’s wife? All about Rebecca Justice as former MLB player opens up about Halle Berry divorce

David Justice recently appeared on the sports podcast “All The Smoke” with retired NBA players Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson, where he spoke about his previous marriage to Halle Berry, more than 25 years after their divorce. He spoke about his current wife, as well, with whom he has created a long and stable life since retiring from baseball. Justice married Rebecca Villalobos in February 2001.

The couple was very much in the public eye at that time, Justice being an MLB superstar and Berry being a talented actress. Justice mentioned that he did receive a lot of attention:

“It really wasn’t a lot of negative attention until I decided to leave her in 1996.”

David Justice, who is now 59 years old, spoke about his short-lived relationship with Berry, confessing she proposed to him after only five months together. The couple got married on New Year's Day, 1993, but divorced in 1997. Speaking about the moment, he said:

“She asked me to marry her after knowing me for five months. And I said, ‘OK.’ ‘Cause I couldn’t say no. I said, ‘OK.’ But I don’t know if my heart was really into it. But I didn’t want to make her feel bad.”

Justice explained their separation was due to job responsibilities and his own lack of real relationship experience, as he was young, which ultimately led to their breakup. Justice also revealed that it was only after five months of staying together did he started thinking about life ahead with Halle.

"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?"

He added:

"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 Justice also addressed long-standing suspicions tying him to an incident in which Berry lost partial hearing, vehemently denying involvement and expressing annoyance that the conjecture had followed him for decades. He told NBA players Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson:

“The one thing that hurts the most is, Halle had a relationship with a gentleman who hit her on the side of the head. She lost some hearing. But she never made him public, and I’m not going to make him public. I ain’t gonna do him like that, but I know who it is.”

He added:

“But for people to think, ‘Oh, it had to be David Justice.’ Because the only person they associate her with was me. Now she said it was a former boyfriend. I’m not her former boyfriend. I was her husband, that’s different.”

R&B singer Christoper Williams, who was another of Berry's ex-boyfriends, has also denied being the one who abused her, which led to her losing partial hearing. The singer blamed Wesley Snipes for this incident, whom Berry was dating at the beginning of her career. Williams told E! News back in 2004:

“They said something like I busted her eardrum, and I’m tired of it. I never said it [before] but I’m so tired of people thinking I’m the guy [who did it]. Wesley Snipes busted her eardrum, not me.”

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Who is Rebecca Justice?

Rebecca was a former model and successful designer who founded House of Sacred Flame, a luxury brand that sells furniture and jewellery. Her designs are available at luxury hotels such as Four Seasons Cabo, Montage Los Cabos, FLORA FARMS, and in upscale boutiques in San Diego, with an Amazon launch planned.

Rebecca graduated from Long Beach State University with a degree in design and fashion merchandising. She started out as a model and created Exotic Spices, a collaborative calendar highlighting ethnic women. After leaving modeling to focus on her family, she found a new creative outlet in furniture design.

Rebecca and David Justice have three children: David Justice Jr, DJ Justice, and Raquel Justice, who are now all grown up. Rebecca has stressed that family comes first, with her career and her artistic projects fitting around her role as a mother.

Talking about her role in life as a mother, a designer, and a businesswoman, Rebecca told Fine Homes and Living in an interview:

"Nothing comes between me and my children. It’s not about balance. It’s about taking care of them first, and everything else just falling behind that."

Her parents reside with them in San Diego. She and David are also huge philanthropists.

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From depression to creative triumph

Their house in San Diego was devastated, which wiped out their personal treasures, including their wedding photographs and David's sports memorabilia. Rebecca claimed that the loss was terrible, and it sent her into depression, but reconstructing the house from scratch was what brought her back alive. She revealed to Fine Homes and Living in an interview:

"Everything was burnt to the ground. We lost everything, and based on that, I was extremely depressed. I honestly feel like I really never got what I wanted. I had to work with certain vendors, and then my next-door neighbor would have the same thing. And I was tired of paying an hourly fee. I felt like I was paying attorneys."

She added:

"It really took me out of my depression and it became an exciting project. That’s really where it came from—out of necessity. It took me out of depression because it turned out the way I dreamed it would turn out."

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David Justice's recent comments about his ex-wife, Halle Berry, have drawn attention, but his relationship with Rebecca tells another story as they built everything together.

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