Halle Berry thanked her manager Vincent Cirrincione tearfully from the Oscar stage, calling him a father figure. When she learned he had been sexually abusing women in the industry, her denouncment of him was public, swift, unambiguous and in vociferous support of his victims.

Which was probably (I’m sure) very personally difficult and a working/interpersonal relationship she had to mourn. And Halle Berry did it anyway. Because that’s what standing by victims when you say you do looks like.

It’s unpleasant. It’s difficult. It’s something hopefully none of us ever have to deal with, but unfortunately some of us will. It’s all of those things. But please don’t act like the answer to “what do you do when you find out someone in your life is an abuser?” is unknowable.

Halle Berry& #39;s public statement in early 2018 when news broke that her former manager, Vincent Cirrincione was an abuser: https://www.indiewire.com/2018/02/halle-berry-manger-sexual-harassment-vincent-cirrincione-1201924743/">https://www.indiewire.com/2018/02/h...

I also appreciate that Berry rebuked him for, as she saw it (correctly, I& #39;d say) using her as body armor to lure impressionable young women of color looking for inroads into acting. What she *didn& #39;t* say was "well, he never did it to me." Perfect. Clear. https://www.indiewire.com/2018/02/halle-berry-manger-sexual-harassment-vincent-cirrincione-1201924743/">https://www.indiewire.com/2018/02/h...

\Berry, a survivor of abuse herself, knows the deal. She knows the fact that he never did it to her isn& #39;t the point. She knows it& #39;s not necessary to say because we& #39;d have heard if she was among the accusers. And she knows what is tacitly implied in "well, he never did it to me."