Valerie Bertinelli discussed her complicated relationship with ex-husband and rocker Eddie Van Halen prior to his death at age 65.
The "Hot In Cleveland" actress appeared on the "Today" show Tuesday where she discussed writing about her life and her marriage in her new book "Enough Already: Learning to Love the Way I am Today." In it, she describes both the good and the bad days of her marriage to Van Halen as well as their reconciliation prior to his death in 2020.
Speaking to Hoda Kotb, an emotional Bertinelli explained that she didn’t got down to write about unhappy e book about her grief. Nonetheless, as soon as she began placing pen to paper, she realized how very important it was to her life’s story.
"When I wrote it and when I did it, it was very cathartic to go through it. I didn’t intend to write a book that had all the grief in it. It was about joy," she explained. "But if I left that part out, it wouldn’t show you the path to joy and how to find that even through the depths of the biggest grief you can feel."
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Valerie Bertinelli mentioned her relationship with Eddie Van Halen in her new e book "Enough Already."
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She added: "I know a lot of people have been feeling that across the country and throughout he world, we’ve all dealt with a lot of grief in the last couple of years."
The star stated that she was conscious whereas she was writing her memoir that issues had been getting "raw" and "vulnerable." Nonetheless, she needed to acknowledge ot herself that these components had been additionally "honest and real."
Though they each remarried, Kotb counseled Bertinelli on discovering her soulmate and lamented the truth that he handed away. To that, the actress replied that she believes there are multiple soulmate in her life, together with her and Van Halen’s son, Wolf.
"I think soulmates, I think we have more than just one," she defined. "I feel partly Wolfie is a soulmate of mine. When I think of soulmates, I think of souls that come here to experience this life on earth together again and to get through and get to a higher place."
Valerie Bertinelli appeared on the "Today" present to debate her new e book.
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Regardless of remembering her ex fondly, Bertinelli admits that there have been lots of instances all through their relationship the place they didn’t deal with one another like soulmates. She goes into higher element about that in her e book, which was excerpted by People earlier this month. In it, she notes that it was tough to see Van Halen fall into medicine and alcohol. She additionally states that they had been very younger after they fell in love, which led to some immaturity when it got here to their relationship.
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"I loved his soul deeply and we went through a lot of hell as well. 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," she concluded throughout her interview on the "Today" present. I’m so comfortable we had been in a position to come to a wonderful place by the tip of his life… I want he had been nonetheless right here."
Van Halen wasn’t the only recently departed star in Bertinelli’s life that she honored on Tuesday. She was co-stars with the late Betty White for six seasons of the sitcom "Scorching in Cleveland." White died on Dec. 31, just weeks shy of her 100th birthday. When asked for a few words about her co-star, Bertinelli wasted no time in honoring the late star.
Valerie Bertinelli honored Betty White throughout her current "Today" present interview.
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"She was magical. There’s no other way to explain that lovely woman," she defined. "And she is the one the taught me so much about gratitude. Betty walked in gratitude and she was grateful for every moment of her life and everything that happened to her."
She added: "She glowed, she was otherworldly. She was an angel here on Earth, for sure."
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