Nahla, 18, walked off a high school stage on Thursday flanked by two people whose history has been loudly public: her mother, Halle Berry, and her father, Gabriel Aubry, who both attended the ceremony.
Berry arrived at the event with her fiancé, musician Van Hunt, wearing a black blouse, blue jeans and shades; Aubry was seen exiting the ceremony separately in a grey suit, white sneakers and sunglasses. Photographs from the day captured the pair at the same event but offered no clear sign they crossed paths during the proceedings.
The moment matters because it punctuates a long, litigated co‑parenting chapter. A Los Angeles court in 2014 ordered Berry to pay Aubry $16,000 a month in child support until Nahla turned 19 or graduated high school; that figure was cut to $8,000 per month in 2021, with Berry also obliged to pay 4.3 percent of any annual income over $1.95 million.
Berry and Aubry were together for five years, from 2005 until their split in 2010, and reached a custody agreement in 2012 that gave them equal parenting time. The graduation, coming the same week it occurred, is the public endpoint of the schooling timeline the court’s order referenced.
That endpoint sits against a heavier record. The two engaged in a bitter child‑support battle after their split, and the legal fights around co‑parenting extended into Berry’s later relationship with Olivier Martinez. A physical altercation between Aubry and Martinez occurred early in that lengthy court process, and Berry and Martinez — who married in 2013 and split in 2015 after five years together — also battled over custody.
In recent court filings Berry described the toll of those fights: she said in 2024 she had spent almost a quarter of a million dollars trying to co‑parent with Martinez, and her papers show she initially agreed to share custody in 2023 before filing for sole custody in 2024. In another filing she told a judge, "I have done everything possible to work with Olivier, to communicate with him, and to engage him in the decision‑making process regarding our son in an amicable way." She added, "As Olivier has advised this court, he lives off my child support and in order to be able to pay child support, I have to go to work. I do not have the luxury of taking months off."
The paradox of Thursday’s images is the tension between a private family milestone and years of public conflict. Both parents showed up to watch Nahla finish high school; both have been parties to court orders that tied financial obligations to milestones such as graduation. Yet the photographs do not resolve the contradictions in their history — they only record that, on this day, the two were present for the same life event.
For Nahla, who turned 18 this year, the ceremony is the direct and immediate subject of the day: she graduated. For Berry and Aubry, the graduation is a public marker of a legal timeline that has governed custody and payments for more than a decade. Whether the photographs will translate into any private reconciliation or further legal movement is not shown in the available record.
Yes: both Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry attended their daughter’s high school graduation on Thursday. What comes next is clear in one narrow sense and uncertain in another — the court’s earlier order tied support to graduation or Nahla turning 19, so the ceremony represents the fulfillment of that condition; whether either parent will pursue further litigation or make a public statement about the day has not been disclosed.
