Halle Berry’s ex, Gabriel Aubry, called her a “ghetto n-word” during an argument according to court papers.

Berry and Aubry are currently in court for a custody battle over their three-year-old daughter, Nahla.

The U.K. Daily Mail reports: He screamed that she was a ‘’ghetto n****r’’ and threw a chair against the wall,’ the witness is quoted as saying. ‘Halle was shaken and sobbing.’

Gabriel hated that Nahla was mixed race,’ a colleague of Halle’s claimed according to The Star. ‘He never wanted her hair to be braided, and he always said that Nahla was white.