Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind The Making Of “B.A.P.S”

How BAPS Helped

Maybe I’m the only one late to the party, but I did not know that after her divorce from David Justice Halle Berry tried to take her own life. Well, she did. Some of you might remember her describing that story on Oprah. But before she went into those details she described how being on the set of B.A.P.S, acting crazy and laughing, actually served as a type of therapy for her.

“I thought that I wouldn’t be able to do it. I didn’t find anything funny at that time and it was really hard for me to laugh. And I thought how can I go and make fun of myself when my life seems so serious right now. Robert Townsend was the one that said this is the perfect time to do it because if you don’t you’re going to lose yourself and you’re just going to sit home and you’re going to be sad and you can’t do that to yourself. You have too much to give and too much to offer. You need to do this for you. After two weeks, it was the best medicine because I had to laugh and smile and just be a fool. And Robert was always there with smiles and laughs and a lot of  hugs all the time. It was the best medicine for probably the worst time of the ordeal that I’ve been going through.”

If no one else likes this movie, we can say that it helped to keep Halle going and that’s pretty powerful.