United Kingdom, Feb. 26 -- Halle Berry's doctor misdiagnosed her perimenopause symptoms as herpes.

The Hollywood actress, 58, has revealed she was sent into a spin after being told she had the sexually transmitted infection (STI) and she then spent 72 hours with her partner Van Hunt playing the "blame game" trying to work out how she had contracted herpes.

During an appearance on 'The Drew Barrymore Show', Halle explained: "I tried to go to the bathroom and I couldn't go. It was so painful when I tried to let a little bit out. I couldn't go. It took me almost 10 minutes just to empty my bladder because it was so painful.

"Substances were down there that I had never seen before. And I thought, 'What is this?'"

After seeing a doctor, sh...