Valerie Bertinelli is proving herself to be “raw and vulnerable” in her new memoir. The actress and television host talks about her heartbreaking goodbye to late ex-husband Eddie Van Halen and her separation from second husband Tom Vitale.
Bertinelli joined the “Today” show’s Hoda Kotb for a candid conversation during which she admitted that she and Van Halen went through some hard times as a young, married couple.
However, she’s glad they were able to put their past behind them before the legendary rock star lost his life to cancer in October 2020. READ MORE: Valerie Bertinelli Remembers ‘Soulmate’ Eddie Van Halen In New Memoir: ‘I Loved His Soul’ “We went through a lot of hell as well,” Bertinelli said during Tuesday’s episode. “We weren’t really good to each other at a lot of points in our lives because we met so young and were very immature.
But I’m so happy that we were able to come to a beautiful place by the end of his life. I just wish he were still here.” Bertinelli, 61, recalled the heart-wrenching final moments with Van Halen, her husband from 1981 to 2007, in her new book Enough Already: Learning to Love the Way I Am Today, released today.
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