Halle Berry lived in a homeless shelter

Halle Berry lived in a homeless shelter when she first left home.
The Oscar-winning actress has revealed her mother refused to support her
when she ran out of money aged 21 - leaving her homeless.
Halle, 40, told Reader's Digest magazine: "But a girl had to do what a girl
had to do. You can do that when you're 21 and ambitious and your eyes are
this big and you don't want to go home. I became a person who knows that I
will always make my own way.

"When I moved to Chicago, she drove me there, but I don't think she ever
thought it would pan out. After a month or two, I ran out of money and
called her.
"I said, 'Mom, I hate to ask you this, but could you send me some money? I
just have rent money, I can't eat this week.'
"And she said no. She said, 'I'm not going to start this calling home asking
mom for money. No, figure it out or come home.' I was so mad. I didn't speak
to her for a year-and-a-half."

The 'Perfect Stranger' star has forgiven her mother and believes the
experience made her stronger.

She said: "I'm actually grateful she did that, because it taught me how to
take care of myself and that I could live through any situation, even if it
meant going to a shelter for a small stint, or living within my means, which
were meagre."
Meanwhile, friends of Halle claim her boyfriend, model Gabriel Aubry, is
about to propose.
A source told the New York Post newspaper: "They've moved in together in Los
Angeles, and although they have separate residences in New York, they always
stay in the same place and are together constantly.
"I wouldn't be shocked if Aubry proposed soon."

In other news, Halle Berry will reunite with Billy Bob Thornton for "Tulia," the Carl Franklin-directed drama for Lionsgate.

"Tulia," is about an ACLU lawyer's efforts to expose a corrupt and racially motivated rash of drug convictions in rural Tulia, Texas, in 1999, is an adaptation of the Nate Blakeslee book "Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town."

"Tulia" is a co-production between Element Films and Lift Films. "Tulia," is being produced by Adam Rosenfelt, Jesse Franklin, Mike Tollin, Brian Robbins, Vince Cirrincione and Berry reports Variety