![]() ![]() “‘I love you’ are the last words Ed says to Wolfie and me,” she writes, “and they are the last words we say to him before he stops breathing.” They were also there with him in the final moments. In the final weeks of his life, she and Wolfgang spent every day in the hospital, where Eddie was surrounded by his loved ones, including his second wife, Janie Liszewski, and his brother, Alex Van Halen. “I contributed to our troubles too and I am also sorry.” “He wants me to know he messed up ,” she writes. “I hope you don’t think it’s weird, you know, that I bought my ex-wife this gift and didn’t get my wife anything,” he told her with tears in his eyes. Once they found a quiet spot in a friend’s car, he handed her a small bag with a pendant-sized gold bar that he bought while getting cancer treatments in Germany. On Thanksgiving Day 2019, he came by her home and asked her to speak privately. “I saw his pain.”Įven after their divorce in 2007, and as both went on to remarry in later years, they shared a bond - one that grew closer as his cancer spread and Eddie faced death. “I hated the drugs and the alcohol but I never hated him,” she says. Though their love was strong, the pair’s marriage was tumultuous at times. “The bad boy rock star and America’s sweetheart but privately, Ed wasn’t the person people thought he was and neither was I.” “We were portrayed as a mismatch,” she writes of their early years. The 61-year-old star and Food Network host tells the story of how she said goodbye to the man she calls her “soulmate,” in her new memoir Enough Already: Learning to Love the Way I Am Today, excerpted exclusively in this week’s PEOPLE. “I loved Ed more than I know how to explain,” says Bertinelli. The two had shared almost four decades of “love, anger, frustration and friendship” and raised a son they adored, Wolfgang, before the rock musician died on Oct 6, 2020, at age 65. That’s what Valerie Bertinelli said through tears to her first husband Eddie Van Halen as he was dying of cancer in late 2020. ![]()
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