Valerie Bertinelli Gets Emotional About Late Eddie Van Halen
Valerie Bertinelli doesn't request to instrumentality her breakup with Mike Goodnough 1 time astatine a time.
In fact, the Hot successful Cleveland alum said she's "irreversibly changed by him for the better" contempt their split.
"I cognize I americium becoming a overmuch stronger and much benevolent quality for having met him and spent clip with him," she wrote connected Instagram March 3. "I look astatine beingness with a antithetic position and caring due to the fact that of my experiences and conversations with him. And he's been a large portion of helping maine heal from immoderate aged puerility wounds I ne'er knew what to bash with oregon adjacent wherever to start."
Though the 2 are "no longer a couple," Valerie said the writer—whose The Hoarse Whisperer relationship connected X, formerly Twitter, has implicit 360,000 followers—will "hold a precise peculiar place" successful her heart.
"Before I had the pleasance of gathering Mike, I was initially and instantly attracted to his writing. It’s heartfelt, authentic, smart, funny, sensitive, caring, and from the soul," she shared. "And arsenic luck would person it, the quality being successful idiosyncratic is precisely arsenic heartfelt, authentic, delicate and caring arsenic his writing."
The 64-year-old added of her ex, "I consciousness truthful fortunate to person gotten to cognize him, and to truly spot him and soak up his insights. I worth each of our agelong conversations and they person pb maine to absorbing and fascinating places I seldom thought to go."
Valerie started dating Mike successful aboriginal 2024, astir 2 years aft her 2022 divorcement from Tom Vitale. (She was besides joined to the precocious Eddie Van Halen—with whom she 33-year-old lad Wolfgang Van Halen—from 1981 to 2007.)
She and Mike met online years prior, but began a long-distance narration aft speaking to each different connected the phone. As Valerie enactment it, "We some had beardown feelings, trying not to admit them."
"I was precise guarded, arsenic was he," she told People past year. "His dependable had the astir beauteous timbre. I was similar ‘Oh, I can’t speech to this antheral close present due to the fact that that’s truly sexy.’"
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While the mates initially established a "three-week rule" wherever they "never spell longer than that without seeing each other," Valerie admittedly recovered it pugnacious to support up arsenic the months went on.
"The summertime has been booked full," she told the outlet successful July. "It is challenging."
And adjacent though their romance fizzled out, the One Day astatine a Time histrion is looking astatine it arsenic a learning experience.
"I deliberation sitting successful discomfort, it tin beryllium a truly challenging and hard happening to do," she said successful a February quality connected The Drew Barrymore Show. "But it's ace powerful."
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