It did so after the actress recently described her payments on social media as “blackmail”.

Halle Berry is so carefree these days it’s easy to forget that years ago she was involved in a chaotic breakup with her then boyfriend Gabriel Aubry. The two share a daughter named Nahla, and the boy is the center of the $ 16,000 in child support the famous actress has been paying her ex monthly since 2014. Previously calling the payments “extortion”, the 54-year-old beauty can breathe a sigh of relief based on recent reports that the payments have instead been halved to $ 8,000 a month.

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According to reports, the actresses’ payments have been cut in half to $ 8,000 instead of the original six-digit number. Last month she took to Instagram to discuss child support payments. The actress shared a picture with her page with a quote that read, “Women owe you nothing,” and wrote in the caption, “And that was on Mary, who had a little lamb.”

The actress went on to write in the comments: “It takes great strength every day to pay for it. And by the way, it’s wrong and it’s blackmail! “She went on, discussing the legality of litigation:” I think if a woman or a man has to pay support that goes well beyond the reasonable needs to support the child, I think that is wrong! “

According to The Blast, the new court order will reduce child support payments from $ 16,000 to $ 8,000 per month. The Oscar-winning actress will also reportedly pay $ 85,000 in retrospective assistance and will continue to bill for her daughter’s health insurance for private school classes.

According to Vanity Fair, the original child support decision was based on 2014 income at the time. The actress is said to have made “around $ 4.7 million in a nine-month period in 2012, compared to $ 192,921 that Aubry earned from October 2011 to October 2012. “

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