Losing a loved one is never easy, and the pain is only amplified when reflecting on your life in something as emotional as a tell-all book. Valerie Bertinelli is experiencing this pain as she remembers her late ex-husband Eddie Van Halen for her new memoir, Enough Already: Learning To Love The Way I Am Today.
The actress and TV chef spoke to People about the deep love she has for her late ex-husband.
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Despite divorcing in 2001 after twenty years together, Valerie and Eddie maintained a loving friendship up until his death.
In her post after the rockstar’s death, Valerie shared she was by his side when he died: “I’m so grateful Wolfie and I were able to hold you in your last moments. I will see you in our next life my love.”
The pair’s ongoing love and mutual respect is a post-divorce relationship most of us can only dream of.
Now, the 61-year-old is opening up about the love she had for her ex while he was dying of cancer back in 2020 in her new memoir.
As reported by People Valerie told Eddie: “Maybe next time. Maybe next time, we’ll get it right.”
“I loved Ed more than I know how to explain,” she wrote.
“I loved his soul.”
She goes on to write that they weren’t the pair everyone thought they were and that their union was incredibly special. “We were portrayed as a mismatch.”
“The bad boy rock star and America’s sweetheart but privately, Ed wasn’t the person people thought he was and neither was I.”
“I hated the drugs and the alcohol but I never hated him,” she wrote. “I saw his pain.”
In the excerpts published by “People” Valerie goes on to say:
“There is no greater love than what we had between the two of us and with that, we made this beautiful son.”
Valerie recalled Ed’s final moments: “‘I love you’ are the last words Ed says to Wolfie and me, and they are the last words we say to him before he stops breathing.'”
I appreciate Valerie’s vulnerability, and I am so looking forward to reading her book!
Enough Already: Learning to Love the Way I Am Today , will be released on January 18.
