Valerie Bertinelli talks about her new boyfriend, an East Coast writer.
The One Day At A Time veteran has told People in her new cover story that she met the man online years ago and they only became romantic earlier this year, but she still doesn’t share his identity.
‘I fell in love when I least expected it!’ the 63-year-old brunette beauty revealed to the magazine.
“I’m in love,” Bertinelli added. ‘It’s a seesaw of emotions because I was convinced that I would never fall in love again.
“I was supposed to die with my six cats and my dog and live very happily alone for the rest of my years; I’m fine on my own,” she said.
Valerie Bertinelli talks about her new boyfriend, an East Coast writer. The One Day At A Time veteran told People in her new cover story that she met the man online years ago and they only became romantic earlier this year, but she still doesn’t share his identity.
‘My belly is spinning. This didn’t have to happen.’
She then shared: ‘It’s crazy the comfort level. She feels incredibly good.’
Valerie added that she has been working on herself with therapy and long walks with her dog.
And her new book Indulge pushed her to be more open. “The cookbook was an outgrowth of the emotional and mental healing I’ve been doing,” she said.
‘First came work. Why I thought he didn’t deserve to be loved. Why was I using food to numb my feelings. All the drama and trauma I hadn’t dealt with…with Ed and my last marriage.
Ed is Eddie Van Halen, her first husband who died. And her last marriage was to Tom Vitale.
“I’m in love,” Bertinelli added. ‘It’s a seesaw of emotions because I was convinced that I would never fall in love again. “I was supposed to die with my six cats and my dog and live very happily alone for the rest of my years; I’m fine on my own,” she said. seen this year
In mid-March she broke the news for the first time that she was in love.
The star gave an enthusiastic interview to USA Today about his new romance, although he refrained from offering personal details about him such as his name.
‘I’ve met someone. And I am incredibly grateful for him. “It’s unlike any relationship I’ve ever experienced with a man,” she gushed.
“I don’t want to say too much, but I feel incredibly blessed and lucky to have met him, because I didn’t expect it!” she added.
“He wasn’t on my radar. He was going to die with my six cats and my dog and he would be incredibly happy doing it,’ the One Day At A Time star confessed. ‘So this came out of nowhere, and I’m grateful that it did. It’s very special.’
Excited: ‘My belly is spinning. This didn’t have to happen.’ He then shared: ‘It’s crazy the comfort level. She feels incredibly good.’ Seen on March 10 in West Hollywood
Regarding her decision to announce the relationship on Instagram this week, she marveled: ‘What was I doing?… I just can’t help it. When I’m happy, everything takes over and he is one of the main reasons.
‘I really want women and men to understand that it’s the work you do (on yourself) that can lead you to meeting someone like I’ve been lucky enough to meet now. This wouldn’t have happened three years ago, four years ago, last year; It wouldn’t have happened. And I feel incredibly lucky to have met him and made a connection with him.”
Bertinelli She filed for divorce from her second husband, financial planner Tom Vitale, in November 2021.
Their divorce was finalized a year later, with a settlement in which Valerie was forced to shell out a whopping $2.2 million to Tom.
As recently as last June, he joked on TikTok that he responded to questions about whether he would “start dating again soon” by saying, “Yeah, fuck no.”
Now, however, she’s changed her mind: She reposted the old TikTok to her Insta Stories and said, “This hasn’t aged well.”
Valerie’s first husband was legendary rock star Eddie Van Halen, with whom she shares a now 32-year-old son named Wolfgang.
She has been open about her turbulent marriage to Eddie, which finally burst into flames in 2001 when his addictions took a toll on the relationship.
Valerie’s first husband was legendary rock star Eddie Van Halen, with whom she shares a now 32-year-old son named Wolfgang; Valerie and Eddie photographed in 1987
She began dating Tom Vitale in 2004 and married him in 2011, becoming a stepmother to his two sons and two daughters; They are photographed in 2012
The cookbook author with one of her six cats at home in March
Valerie told Rob Lowe on his podcast that while she was with Eddie, she turned to drugs herself “for a few years until I couldn’t take them anymore.”
Eddie became sober in 2008, a year after his divorce from Valerie was finalized, but died in late 2020 at the age of 65 after a battle with throat cancer.
She began dating Tom Vitale in 2004 and married him in 2011, becoming a stepmother to his two sons and two daughters.
A decade later, Valerie filed for divorce citing irreconcilable differences and the separation was finalized on November 22, 2022, which she gleefully referred to on social media as the “second best day of my life.”
Early the following year, Valerie spoke cryptically about “healing” a relationship with a “narcissist” who called her “fat and lazy” in texts he “found.”