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Valerie Bertinelli Gets Honest About 'Drugs, Alcohol, Infidelity' with Eddie Van Halen, Says He Was 'Not a Soulmate'

Valerie Bertinelli and Eddie Van Halen married in 1981 and officially divorced in 2007 before his death in 2020.

On Thursday, May 2, following the release of her son Wolfgang Van Halen's episode of Behind the Music on Paramount+, which chronicled his relationship with his father, Bertinelli opened up about the toxicity that affected her marriage to the late rockstar. "But after Ed died, I was more than willing to put myself in the grieving widow category for a man that I hadn't lived with for 20 years," she continued, becoming emotional as she spoke to the camera. The Indulge author told PEOPLE in an April cover story that Van Halen " knew how much I loved him," adding, "I continued for years to rewrite the facts in my head and build them into some sort of fantasy.

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