I am forever grateful for that moment," Berry wrote.

“Natalie was one of the most precious people I’ve ever known.

With her I laughed harder than I’d ever laughed before,” Berry added.

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“She showed us it was ok to be goofy and funny while still being sincere and extraordinarily kind.

She was especially humbled by that, as am I.”

For that she was often underrated, passed over deprived of the platform she truly deserved.

“Above all, she was a daughter, wife, friend and mother,” Berry concluded.

“And my heart is with her entire family, especially with Leonard, Sereno, Summer and Sasha.

I’ll love you forever my sweet friend.

ima miss you Nat Dog !”

gonna need a minute."

Days earlier, she had shared a clip of her and Desselle-Reid during the filming ofB.A.P.Sback in 1996.