Post-Thanksgiving news has been filled with updates about the Turkey Day beatdown of Halle Berry‘s ex Gabriel Aubry, the father of her daughter Nahla, by her fiancé Olivier Martinez. Judging by the pictures, Gabriel received the flogging of his life by Olivier, who has professional boxing skills. Although the three adults in the situation have reportedly worked out their differences, the whole situation doesn’t sit well with RHOA husband Peter Thomas. Like Halle, Olivier and Gabriel, Peter, Cynthia and Leon have a similar triangle, only theirs never comes to physical blows. Yet, according to Peter, the media has ignored how maturely he, his wife and her ex handle the situation and so he wanted to share his rant with UPTOWN.
You aren’t cool with what went down in Halle Berry’s driveway. Why?
“My beef is that, if it was two black men who go to work on each other like that, they would say that ‘it’s expected of us,’ ‘we’re criminals,’ ‘we belong in jail’ and ‘they should take the kid away from the woman and put her in a foster home.’ If this man, who just won a custody battle, is coming to drop off his kid in the driveway, Halle Berry had the power to shut all that down. This is a very volatile situation that she’s put herself in once again. He’s dropping off his daughter and all Halle had to do is come out of the house, meet the baby half way just because they don’t like each other and keep it moving and that man can go about his business. But, for the fact that her man, her current boyfriend, had to have something to say and then homeboy had the beatdown of life by a boxer, he should have gone to jail. When I looked at the pictures, that beatdown was severe. That’s a beatdown and a half, stitches, black eye. I’m surprised he didn’t knock out a couple of teeth while he was at it.”
How did your wife RHOA Cynthia Bailey deal with you and Leon and her daughter Noel?
“Halle should take tips from my beautiful wife Cynthia and how she’s handled the situation with me, her daughter Noel and Leon [Noel’s dad]. The way she dealt with it out the gate was I couldn’t even walk in her house until I sat down to dinner with her child’s father. She made sure that everything was so cordial before it could accelerate to another level. If she hadn’t done that and I had started going to her crib after meeting her and I was up in her house and Leon would get heated because he wouldn’t have known this man that was up in the house with his little daughter and then when he see he’s looking at me crazy and then I’m looking at him crazy he might say something I might say something and then it jumps off. My wife made sure that she handled the situation with her new man and her old man so stellar that that never even came up.”
So what happens if Cynthia and Leon disagree on something? What do you do?
“I have to be respectful that if they are having differences to step out of it and let them work out their differences. The only time I would jump in as a black man is if Leon would ever lose his mind and ever talk to my wife reckless and even do it in front of their daughter but I respect him so much because he is not that type of guy. Whenever they disagree, he makes sure Noel is nowhere in the vicinity and then he amicably states how he feels and then they amicably work it out. And the only time I interject is if they ask for my opinion because I wasn’t there when they made this beautiful little girl.”
Obviously that’s not what’s been happening with Halle and the two men in her life.
“When I look at the situation with a superstar like Halle Berry, an Oscar winner, and her laundry is out in the public in such a way and she got two French men beating the [ish] out of each other and that [ish] aint right, there is nothing right about that. There is nothing right about that. She may be half white but she’s half black too and this is not good. The way me and my wife are handling our life with her daughter and her daughter’s dad is how it’s supposed to be but black people don’t embrace it.”
Why do you say that black people don’t embrace how you, Cynthia and Leon deal with Noel?
“Because I hear rhetoric like ‘how you gone have Leon up in your house like that brother?’ ‘Is that alright with you brother?’ ‘How you know those people not gone reminisce when you’re not around?’ and I’m like ‘if they want to reminisce then let them reminisce cause that’s what grown people gone do, they’re always gone do what they want to do.’ Me and my wife have the kind of relationship where she didn’t need be with me if she still wanted to be with Leon. I’m not sweating that. I’m not sweating that at all. But every time I set in any radio station, that’s the first thing they want to talk about is how the hell we can all coexist because them and they baby mama or baby daddy can’t coexist. What we are doing is 100 percent correct and our community isn’t embracing it. We should be celebrating what me, Leon and Cynthia are doing.”
As for Halle Berry’s situation?
“There are no winners in the Halle Berry’s situation because one day that little girl is going to grow up and she’s going so see those pictures of what that man did to her father and she’s going to hate that man for putting hands on her father and she’s going to hate her mother. There’s no way around it. Little girls love their fathers. To me Halle Berry needs to check herself because she has control over the situation. She should have told her new man that ‘I don’t care what me and my baby’s father is going through don’t you ever disrespect him because that will carry over to my daughter and I don’t ever want her to hate my guts.’ She has the power to shut all this [ish] down. That new man has no respect for Halle Berry and no respect for Halle Berry’s daughter in order for him to put his hands on that man the way he did. As far as I’m concerned, that dude has issues.”
