The actress mimicked her daughter saying, “No don’t touch me.

I can handle it.

I’m a tween.

Halle Berry

I don’t need you to brush my hair.”

Berry said her daughter’s hair had “shrunken up into a tight ball that feels like matted fur.

I can’t even get my finger in it, and I’m pulling and she’s screaming.”

Halle Berry

In fact, Berry said the tangle got tighter.

“I had to shave it off.

She was not cool with that, but it was our only option,” she said.

TheX-Menactress used the moment as a teaching opportunity for Nahla.

“I was like, ‘First of all, maybe you’ll let your mother help you.

And second of all, you learned you gotta brush your hair.

Every day, you gotta brush your hair.'”

“She’s bald in the back.

Always brush your hair, Winnie,” Berry told Fallon’s daughter.