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Valerie Bertinelli wrote about missing her late ex-husband, Eddie Van Halen, in an Instagram post on Aug. 14
She noted that Eddie would be “so proud” of their son, musician Wolfgang Van Halen
“I know we’d be screaming together in the stands watching him on stage,” she wrote
Valerie Bertinelli is reflecting on life without her late ex-husband, Eddie Van Halen.
“Some days I really do miss you,” the celebrity chef, 65, began an Instagram post on Thursday, Aug. 14. “There will always be a loud absence in these gratifying sideline years.”
The caption accompanied a black-and-white photo of the pair smiling as they embraced.
“Who do I yap to when there was really only one person I could talk to about Wolfie the way that we did?” she wrote, referring to Wolfgang Van Halen, the son they welcomed in 1991. “The pride we both felt. Still feel. I’m grateful for where we landed. Through the ups and the downs to still alight where we did is a blessing.”
“You’d be so proud of Wolf,” Bertinelli continued of their musician son, 34, who fronts the band Mammoth. “I know we’d be screaming together in the stands watching him on stage. Seeing who could whistle the loudest. I will never not miss being able to experience that with you.”
The Indulge cookbook author was married to the Van Halen frontman from 1981 until 2007. Eddie died from cancer at age 65 in October 2020.
Bertinelli was then married to her second husband, financial planner Tom Vitale, from 2011 until 2022.
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Valerie Bertinelli and Eddie Van Halen
In May, the One Day at a Time star detailed Eddie’s “complicated” relationship with her late mother, Nancy Bertinelli.
“There really needs to be a warning, *strong emotions incoming* when Apple photos decide to highlight a photo of the day,” Valerie wrote in the Instagram caption to a photo of Eddie with her mother from 2017.
“A flood of memories come rushing in when I see this photo,” Bertinelli went on. “I’m talkin from the moment I introduced Ed to my mom in 1980, the joy of Wolfie’s birth, the handful of arguments they would have, my effort to mediate them, and the delight in watching them laugh together. A lot of life lived together.”
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Eddie Van Halen, Wolfgang Van Halen and Valerie Bertinelli
She shared that the rock star cried the morning her mother died in 2019 of rheumatoid arthritis.
“They had a complicated relationship that was centered by mutual respect and a deep love for one another, they understood each other, even through their flaws or maybe because of,” she wrote.
“Anyway, I’m gonna go off and have a good healthy cry. The kind of cry where I feel lucky to have loved and have been loved and the deep grief that goes with no longer being able to hold them and tell them that,” she concluded the post.
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