Late music icon Prince missed his shot at going on a first date with Halle Berry after the actress slyly turned him down.
“The Purple One” was married twice and had a host of muses, but when he approached Berry, Prince was practically shut down on sight.
While promoting her new film, Never Let Go, Berry made a stop by Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday (Sept. 24), when she recalled the situation. Around the four-minute mark of the video below, Kimmel asked if it was true that Michael Jackson attempted to get Babyface to ask Berry on a date.
“I don’t know. But I know Prince asked me out on a date,” the Oscar-winning answered.
Berry said that it “sort of” happened in person while she was attending a Prince concert.
“I was at one of his concerts here on Sunset at the Key Club, and he had somebody come out with a piece of paper. And you know like kids do, you say, ‘Do you like me? Yes or no’ I went, yes! I mean, I’m at his concert, right? Yes! [The person] Came back out again: ‘Would you go out with me?'”
But Berry, who was possibly in a relationship at the time, mischievously declined the offer. “No, I didn’t send the paper back. I kept the paper.”
The twice-divorced actress and mother-of-two is now happily dating R&B musician Van Hunt, who she met in 2020, just four years after Berry split from ex-husband Oliver Martinez.
“It took me a minute to get it right,” she told Marie Claire in a recent cover story. “But the nature of the way this happened, I have a real belief that this is it. This is my person.”
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