{"id":90039,"date":"2026-05-04T07:59:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T07:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/valerie-bertinelli-provides-update-on-her-dating-life\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T07:59:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T07:59:47","slug":"valerie-bertinelli-provides-update-on-her-dating-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/valerie-bertinelli-provides-update-on-her-dating-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Valerie Bertinelli Provides Update on Her Dating Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Valerie Bertinelli<\/strong> has opened up about her love life, revealing who joins her in bed these days.<\/p>\n<p>At the Thursday, April 30, North Hollywood screening of her new film <em>Love, Again<\/em>, the actress, 66, addressed her private life while speaking to <em>Pause Rewind<\/em> on the event\u2019s red carpet. \u201c2024 sucked the life out of me,\u201d Bertinelli told the outlet, referring to her November 2024 split from ex-boyfriend <strong>Mike Goodnough<\/strong>. \u201cI sleep with a black cat. That tells you everything you need to know about me and I love that furry little 11 lbs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While chatting to the outlet out the front of the Television Academy\u2019s Saban Media Center, Bertinelli added that she says, \u201cHell, no\u201d to the prospect of dating right now, noting that \u201cBatman,\u201d her cat, is the only companion she currently craves.<\/p>\n<p>Bertinelli\u2019s candid admission comes after she revealed in her recent memoir <em>Getting Naked: The Quiet Work of Becoming Perfectly Imperfect<\/em>, released in March, that she retained love for her late ex-husband <strong>Eddie Van Halen<\/strong> following the duo\u2019s split. (Bertinelli and Van Halen, who died at the age of 65 in 2020, were married from 1981 and separated in 2001 before their divorce was finalized six years later.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Valerie-Bertinelli-Breaks-Her-Silence-on-Split-From-Boyfriend-Mike-Goodnough-642.jpg?crop=0px%2C92px%2C1331px%2C752px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Valerie Bertinelli Breaks Her Silence on Split From Boyfriend Mike Goodnough 642\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Valerie-Bertinelli-Breaks-Her-Silence-on-Split-From-Boyfriend-Mike-Goodnough-642.jpg?quality=47&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Valerie Bertinelli Breaks Silence on Split From Boyfriend Mike Goodnough<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tValerie Bertinelli has broken her silence on the end of her 10-month relationship with former boyfriend Mike Goodnough. \u201cI am irreversibly changed by him for the better,\u201d Bertinelli said of her ex in a post shared via Instagram on Monday, March 3. \u201cI know I am becoming a much stronger and more benevolent human for [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe hurt each other\u2019s feelings, but we always tried to do the right thing,\u201d the Food Network star said of her marriage to the late musician, which saw the arrival of son <strong>Wolfgang Van Halen<\/strong>\u00a0in 1991. \u201cEven when we were angry, we stayed loving. It changed, evolved, and grew back different but stronger than it had been at the beginning of our relationship. It healed us.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Once Bertinelli and Eddie\u2019s divorce was finalized, Bertinelli went on to marry <strong>Tom Vitale<\/strong> in 2011. The former couple were married for 10 years before Bertinelli filed for separation in 2021. Three years later, in March 2024, Bertinelli began dating Goodnough, however the relationship dissolved by November that year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Valerie-Bertinelli-Dishes-on-New-Romance-With-Man-From-Online-After-Divorce-\u2018Im-in-Love-1.jpg?crop=0px%2C12px%2C1998px%2C1131px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Valerie Bertinelli Dishes on New Romance With Man From Online After Divorce- \u2018I\u2019m in Love\u2019\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Valerie-Bertinelli-Dishes-on-New-Romance-With-Man-From-Online-After-Divorce-\u2018Im-in-Love-1.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Valerie Bertinelli Is &#8216;In Love&#8217; After Divorce: How She Met Her New Man<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tValerie Bertinelli has fallen head over heels for a new man she met online. \u201cI\u2019m in love,\u201d Bertinelli, 63, told People magazine in an interview published on Monday, April 1. \u201cIt\u2019s a seesaw of emotions because I was adamant I was never falling in love again.\u201d The former Food Network host, who didn\u2019t reveal her [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In her memoir, Bertinelli stated that she \u201ccouldn\u2019t crack the code of lasting love\u201d over the years. \u201cRomance has never been easy for me, never even sane,\u201d she wrote. \u201cIt\u2019s a messy math equation \u2014 love, marriage, divorce \u2014 and I\u2019m terrible at math. Worse at marriage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of her second marriage to Vitale, Bertinelli also revealed that its demise unfolded quite differently to that of her former union with Eddie. \u201cHow could I have continued to feel love for Ed after our divorce but have no feelings \u2014 neither good nor bad \u2014 for my second husband after fifteen years of togetherness?\u201d Bertinelli wrote in her memoir. \u201cHopefully that will change over time. I can already feel myself softening. I\u2019ve reached a point of indifference and grace, which is so much healthier than hanging on to anger.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valerie Bertinelli has opened up about her love life, revealing who joins her in bed these days. At the Thursday, April 30, North Hollywood screening of her new film Love, Again, the actress, 66, addressed her private life while speaking to Pause Rewind on the event\u2019s red carpet. \u201c2024 sucked the life out of me,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_daextam_enable_autolinks":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-trends-and-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2273954029-Valerie.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}