VALERIE BERTINELLI Reflects On Her Relationship With EDDIE VAN HALEN - "We Couldn’t Live With Each Other, But We Found It Impossible To Live Completely Apart"
January 18, 2022, 2 years ago
In a new interview with USA Today, Valerie Bertinelli discusses her new book, Enough Already: Learning To Love The Way I Am Today (available now). Among the collection of essays, Bertinelli gives insight into her relationship with her ex-husband, late Van Halen guitar legend, Eddie Van Halen.
The new book also served as a vessel for Bertinelli's anguish after the death of Van Halen. Bertinelli began writing the book just weeks after the guitarist died, on October 6, 2020, after a long battle with cancer.
"I wasn't expecting to write a book about grief when I started it, but I was in the thick of it," she says. "It actually ended up being very cathartic to write about it."
Bertinelli writes of the "instantaneous and mutual" attraction the two experienced upon meeting backstage at a Van Halen concert and the enduring love they shared, even after they separated in 2001 after 20 years of marriage.
"Ed and I grew even closer together," she reveals in Enough Already. "We couldn’t live with each other, but we found it impossible to live completely apart."
Read the complete interview at USA Today.
