CNN —Valerie Bertinelli is getting real about her relationship with late rocker Eddie Van Halen.
The actress and culinary TV show host reflected on their time together in a video shared on Instagram.
She said watching their son, Wolfgang Van Halen, in an episode of “Behind the Music” was “not easy.”“I’d stopped it many times because it was just too brutal to watch for many reasons.
I made a lot of mistakes.”Bertinelli had a tumultuous marriage to Van Halen from 1981 to 2007, in part due to his substance abuse problems.
Van Halen was married to actress Janie Liszewski from 2009 until his death.
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