Halle Berry
Hey Newsom, You Screwed Girls On Menopause …
You Should not Be President!!!
Printed December 4, 2025 4:06 AM PST
Halle Berry went scorched earth on Gavin Newsom throughout Wednesday’s New York Instances’ DealBook Summit, calling out the California governor for vetoing a menopause invoice whereas additionally crapping on his aspirations to probably turn into the subsequent president.
The Academy Award-winning actress took to the stage on the NYT occasion to present a speech about menopause, throughout which she identified Newsom had vetoed California’s menopause invoice two years in a row.
Berry did not maintain again, telling the packed crowd … “However that is okay, as a result of he isn’t going to be governor endlessly, and the best way he has ignored girls, half the inhabitants, by devaluing us, he most likely shouldn’t be our subsequent president both.”
If Newsom had handed the invoice, it might have required sure well being plans and insurers to cowl the prices of analysis and therapy for perimenopause and menopause signs. It might have additionally incentivized or required docs who’ve greater than 25 p.c girls underneath 65 as sufferers to finish medical training coursework on menopause care.
After Berry completed her speech, it simply so occurred Newsom was the subsequent visitor to look onstage with host Andrew Ross Sorkin, who interviewed the governor about what adjustments the democratic get together must make after shedding the 2024 presidential election.
In the course of the Q&A, Newsom by no means addressed Halle’s critique of him. However, his spokesperson later issued an announcement to TMZ, saying the governor deeply admires Halle’s advocacy and appears ahead to working along with her on this “vital subject” as a result of he shares her objective of increasing entry to menopause care.
Newsom additionally mentioned he vetoed the invoice as a result of it might have “unintentionally raised well being care prices for tens of millions of working girls and dealing households already stretched skinny.”
