In a candid revelation on the Sex With Emily podcast, set to premiere on February 24, Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry declared she has stopped faking orgasms during sex. The 59-year-old star, known for roles in films like Monster's Ball and Catwoman, shared her perspective bluntly, stating, "I don't do that anymore." Berry explained the reasoning behind her past behavior, noting, "We had to get there so that he felt good about bringing us to orgasm. We had to say that we did it so that he would feel good about himself. Because what is that doing? That's putting his needs before our own."
Berry emphasized the importance of mutual satisfaction in intimate encounters, adding, "I'm like, 'No, I come first like you come first to you.' We both deserve to have this be a mutually enjoyable experience, so we both can roll over and go to sleep because we feel good—not one snoring and the other one looking at the ceiling, going, 'What the hell?'" Her comments come amid a broader conversation about women's experiences in the bedroom, highlighting a shift toward prioritizing personal pleasure over performative expectations.
Berry's openness about her sex life is tied to her current relationship with musician Van Hunt, to whom she has been engaged since 2022. In a 2024 interview with Marie Claire, she described falling in love with Hunt before becoming intimate as a transformative experience: "It was the first time I was madly in love before I had sex. That has never happened to me, ever. Talk about one of those life-changing, beautiful experiences. It was magical, just magical." This marks a departure from her previous marriages to baseball player David Justice from 1993 to 1998, musician Eric Benét from 2001 to 2005, and actor Olivier Martinez from 2013 to 2016.
The actress, who shares 17-year-old daughter Nahla with ex-partner Gabriel Aubry and 12-year-old son Maceo-Robert with Martinez, reflected on her romantic history during a 2023 appearance on Today. She said, "Having gone through three divorces, I finally knew what wasn’t working and I realized I was always saying to the universe what I didn’t want. So, guess what I did? I manifested what I didn’t want." Berry credited the universe for bringing Hunt into her life in 2020, adding, "If it didn't come, I would have been good just to raise my kids. After three divorces, you kind of go, 'I'm just going to be alone,' and I was ready to do that. I was done. I knew that if the right person didn't show up for me, I'd be better off going at it alone."
Berry's podcast appearance is part of a growing trend among celebrities sharing intimate details about their sex lives, often to destigmatize topics like aging, trauma, and satisfaction. For instance, in February 2026, former Project Runway mentor Christian Siriano revealed on Chelsea Handler's Dear Chelsea podcast that he had remained celibate for over four decades following a devastating breakup in 1982. He recounted the betrayal by a partner who admitted to infidelity during the early AIDS crisis, saying, "One of the things that he told me that night was that he'd been sleeping with just about everything that walked by. I had been loyal and faithful to him. He was the only person I'd ever been with. This is the advent of AIDS. It's 1982."
Siriano described the emotional toll, including, "The self-pity then turned to completely unbridled anger because I thought he may have given me a death sentence. I was tested every six months for ten years for HIV, and thankfully, I had a clean slate." He explained how the trauma resurfaced in future relationships: "Whenever I was even tempted to engage in something that could become serious with someone, all this would come back like Niagara Falls, and it would just take the desire away."
Country singer Jelly Roll, whose real name is Jason Bradley DeFord, opened up about his pre-weight-loss struggles in December 2025 on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. After shedding 200 pounds, he contrasted his current life with his marriage to Bunnie Xo, describing earlier intimacy as "horrible." He clarified, "Dude, I married a f--kin’ big-t-tty, blonde, beautiful woman, dawg. I married the kind of woman that makes you smile when you're crying, Joe. And I couldn't even get aroused I was so big. I was having to play Twister to have sex—left foot here, right foot in the X. ‘Are we in there yet? Tell me if you feel something.’ It was bad."
In a lighter vein, Sports Illustrated model Brooks Nader's sister, Grace Ann Nader, spilled details in May 2025 on the Chicks In the Office podcast about Brooks' time on Dancing With the Stars with partner Gleb Savchenko. Grace Ann said, "I can tell you firsthand, every time I visited Brooks’s trailer, the trailer was shaking every single time. I never wanted to go in there. I was always knocking." Brooks, who had recently separated from husband Billy Haire, joked, "The trailer thing was probably why we didn’t win."
Actress Brooke Shields addressed aging's impact on intimacy in her 2025 memoir Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old, as reported by People. She wrote, "I’m going through all the bodily s--t that comes with aging as a woman even in the best of times. The thinning hair and the peach fuzz and the brand-new belly fat and vaginal dryness and the diminishing sex drive—and in my natural state I feel less appealing to him than I ever did before." Shields, married to Chris Henchy, added that intimacy now requires preparation: "For me to fully enjoy sex at this point, I need my lotions and potions, the right sleepwear (maybe calling it sleepwear is contributing to the problem), my special pillow, and maybe a tequila so I can relax."
Pop star Katy Perry shared a playful anecdote from her relationship with ex Orlando Bloom in a September 2024 episode of Call Her Daddy with Alex Cooper: "If I come downstairs and the kitchen is clean, and you've done it all, and you've done all the dishes, and you've closed all the pantry doors, you better be ready to get your d--k sucked." Comedian Chelsea Handler addressed past rumors in October 2023 on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, clarifying a threesome story: "I really want to clarify. I want to go on the record that that is not why our relationship ended. We did have a lot of threesomes, and that, while that's private it's already out there, so I'm gonna double down on that and just say that we didn't break up because I left him for the masseuse. That didn't happen."
Model Heidi Klum discussed her "sex closet" on the Skinny Confidential Him & Her Show podcast in September 2024, describing it as, "It's a big closet. But, there's outfits in here and things, you know. You can have a lot of things. You can have wigs, you can have outfits, shoes, boots." On Call Her Daddy in January 2024, she recounted her daughter Leni discovering it: "She found my sex closet. She fully knew what it was. But, also she was with a friend and she filmed it and they were giggling, and I was like, 'Oh my God.'"
Actor John Krasinski demystified sex scenes in films during an August 2024 episode of Club Shay Shay, saying, "There is nothing intimate about it. Nothing. So, like, it's really embarrassing." Reflecting on his 2015 film Trainwreck with Amy Schumer, he noted, "Amy is an angel. She made the environment so comfortable, and then when I got the part, eventually they were like, 'Yeah, it's a sex scene and we want you to do elaborate and crazy stunt sex, and all those lines you had? We're probably not going to use them, we're just going to do this stunt sex scene.'"
Actress Shailene Woodley critiqued pornography on the She MD podcast in September 2024, calling it the "junk food" of pleasure: "The way that sex is presented on the surface in this country is so fabricated, and it’s such a performance instead of true intimacy, vulnerability and connection. Pleasure is so important, and we just rip each other off of it because I think we don't necessarily even know what’s possible. And that’s my big beef with porn is I'm like, 'You’re selling everybody McDonald’s when you could have like, whoa.'"
Veteran actress Goldie Hawn shared relationship advice with partner Kurt Russell after four decades together in a September 2024 E! News interview: "You have to have good sex. Because sex is something that connects you and creates more belonging. People who have healthy sexual relationships usually last a lot longer. But it's not just because of the act, it's because of the warmth and the intimacy that it creates." Rapper Ice-T echoed this for his marriage to Coco Austin in a January 2024 E! News segment, advocating "jungle sex": "That flame has to stay lit. When that flame goes out and you're not really attracted to each other anymore, you have to address that very quickly because it's something that's necessary."
Singer Demi Lovato expressed confidence in intimacy on the LadyGang podcast in September 2023: "I feel the most confident when I'm having sex. 'Cause you're so present that you're not thinking about what is actually like…what clouds your judgement throughout the rest of the day, or at least that's how it is for me. It's not that way for everybody." Actress Lisa Rinna discussed aging with husband Harry Hamlin in a January 2024 Cosmopolitan interview: "I do think that desire levels change for a man. That's just the natural evolution of life. So it's figuring out how to coexist without taking that personally as a woman. I think that it's almost more about companionship and about creating space for the ebb and flow of sexuality. We really have great sex together, and we always have. It's just that maybe it doesn't happen quite as often as it did when you're in your 30s and in your 20s, I would say. And I think that's normal."
Finally, actress Zoe Saldaña and husband Marco Perego-Saldaña revealed a family code for intimacy on The Drew Barrymore Show in April 2024. Marco said, "We 'play Legos naked,'" with Zoe clarifying it means "sexy time." They worried their twin boys were catching on, as Zoe recounted, "They were like, 'Are you guys kissing? Are you guys gonna go play naked with your Legos?' And we're like, 'No, we're not going to do that.'"
These disclosures from Berry and fellow stars underscore a cultural shift toward normalizing conversations about sex, from challenges like trauma and aging to joys of connection. As Berry's podcast episode approaches, it may inspire more dialogue on authentic intimacy in long-term relationships.