Valerie Bertinelli Recounts Terrifying Anxiety Attack In Jaw-Dropping Reveal To Fans

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Valerie Bertinelli had the most awful time over the weekend. On Sunday afternoon, the 64-year-old television star took to Instagram to reveal that she’d just suffered through a debilitating anxiety attack back on Saturday morning.

In a remarkably poignant and extremely vulnerable post on the social network, the Valerie’s Home Cooking star explained how panic and anxiety suddenly swept over her, affected her both physically and mentally, and left her with little recourse as she struggled to get through the ordeal. Related: Valerie Opens Up About Past Relationship With A ‘Narcissist’ Who Called Her ‘Fat & Lazy’ Nervous about making the reveal in such a public way, she began by noting: After that, the actress — who just recently split from boyfriend Mike Goodnough after nearly a year together — opted to go into greater detail about what happened.

She explained: OMG!!! She continued: Bertinelli then noted how she was trying hard to calm down, focus on her breathing, and work on meditating.

She explained that it nevertheless took some serious time to get through it all: And she concluded as hopefully as she could muster at this stage of the anxiety attack: The video that she shared along with the long and shocking caption was even more telling in terms of how debilitating the attack had been on the star.