United Kingdom, Feb. 3 -- Halle Berry was accused of fixing her prom queen ballot because the school didn't want a "Black girl" to win.

The Academy Award winning actress - who is the first and only Black woman to win the best actress prize, for 2001 thriller Monster's Ball - can still recall the racism she was subjected to at high school, when she won the vote but was made to flip a coin with a white student to decide the winner.

She told The Cut: "As a Black girl, I was not the symbol of who they wanted for their queen."

She added: "Another thing nobody really gets about me is that I've been a fighter my whole life - fighting to be seen for who I really am, fighting to be taken seriously as an artist, fighting the stigma of beauty." ...