Valerie Bertinelli still had love for ex-husband Eddie Van Halen after their divorce. "We hurt each other's feelings, but we always tried to do the right thing," Bertinelli recalled in her Getting Naked: The Quiet Work of Becoming Perfectly Imperfect memoir, released in March 2026. Bertinelli recalled that she and Van Halen, who were married from 1981 to 2007, had a "flawed love." The former couple shared one son, Wolfgang Van Halen, born in March 1991. "Even when we were angry, we stayed loving," Bertinelli recalled.