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In a shockingly raw Instagram video, Valerie Bertinelli, 64, confessed that it was 'not easy' for her to watch the episode of 'Behind the Music' that profiled her 33-year-old son, musician Wolfgang Van Halen. 'I stopped it many times because it was just too brutal to watch,' she said, speaking directly to the camera. Bertinelli was married to rock legend Eddie Van Halen from 1981 until 2007. After a vicious battle with cancer, he died in 2020 at age 65.
' Bertinelli seemed to regret turning her marriage to the rock star into 'some sort of fantasy soulmate recreation of history' because in reality, the marriage 'rapidly declined into drugs and alcohol and infidelity.' Though she didn't get a 'soulmate' from her marriage, she did get Wolfie. 'What we had together was this beautiful son that we both unconditionally loved,' she said.
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