In a Could 2024 Instagram video after the premiere of son Wolfgang Van Halen’s episode of Behind the Music, the Sizzling in Cleveland alum spoke candidly about how she turned her relationship with Eddie into “some type of fantasy, soulmate recreation of historical past.”
“I fell in love with him once I was 20, and it quickly declined into medicine, and alcohol, and infidelity,” she mentioned. “Nothing that makes you’re feeling liked and needed and cared for. Nothing that will scream soulmate, that is for certain.”
Bertinelli continued, “However after Ed died, I used to be greater than keen to place myself within the grieving widow class for a person that I hadn’t lived with for 20 years. What we had collectively was this lovely son that we each unconditionally liked. That is what I acquired out of that marriage, was Wolfie, one of the best factor that ever occurred to me. Not a soulmate.”
Eddie died on October 6, 2020, on the age of 65. Though he battled most cancers for years, his dying certificates listed cerebrovascular accident or stroke as his rapid reason for dying.