Sitting on Drew’s famous couch, Halle said that her prognosis for perimenopause, which is when a woman’s body makes the natural transition to menopause, came four years ago when she was 54. The Monster’s Ball star explained that her doctor was confident in his diagnosis — but it took her by surprise.

Halle previously revealed that she discovered she was going through perimenopause after being left to do her own research when her doctor mistakenly told her she had “the worst case of herpes.”

Halle Berry has revealed how being misdiagnosed with herpes majorly affected her sex life with her boyfriend Van Hunt.

X-Men star Halle Berry revealed that sex with her boyfriend Van Hunt felt like 'razor blades' and that a doctor initially misdiagnosed her with herpes.

Halle Berry's doctor misdiagnosed her perimenopause symptoms as herpes. The Hollywood actress, 58, has revealed she was sent into a spin after being told she had the sexually transmitted infection (STI) and she then spent 72 hours with her partner Van Hunt playing the "blame game" trying to work out how she had contracted herpes.

Halle Berry had a candid conversation about what intimacy is like while you’re in perimenopause, saying it made her vagina so dry, sex felt like “razor blades.” The experience inspired her to launch her own lubricant — and it’s the very first product offered by her women’s wellness company,