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    Valerie Bertinelli is getting honest about her relationship with her late ex-husband, Eddie Van Halen. The 64-year-old actress first met the iconic rocker in 1980, when she was 20, and he was 26, and the pair tied the knot a year later. Bertinelli and Van Halen, who shared son Wolfgang Van Halen, separated in 2001 and made their divorce official in 2007. On Thursday, Bertinelli got candid about their marriage while sharing her reaction to Wolfgang's episode of "Behind the Music," which was...

  • Valerie Bertinelli says Eddie Van Halen was ‘not a soulmate’

    Valerie Bertinelli is getting real about her relationship with late rocker Eddie Van Halen. The actress and culinary TV show host reflected on their time together in a video shared on Instagram. She said watching their son, Wolfgang Van Halen, in an episode of “Behind the Music” was “not easy.” “I’d stopped it many times because it was just too brutal to watch for many reasons. One, seeing Wolfie’s pain,” she said in the video. “Two, seeing what a better job I could have done as a parent even...

  • Valerie Bertinelli Reflects on Tumultuous Eddie Van Halen Marriage

    Valerie Bertinelli is looking back at some of the darkest memories of her relationship with ex-husband Eddie Van Halen. After watching son Wolfgang Van Halen's Behind the Music episode, in which he detailed his relationship with his late father, Bertinelli, 64, reflected on their marriage and how hearing her son's side of the story further opened her eyes to the toxicity of their romance. "I was finally able to watch Wolfie's Behind the Music. It was not easy," she began in a video via...