Valerie Bertinelli has revealed what makes her happiest.
On Thursday the 65-year-old actress shared it thrills her to watch her 34-year-old son Wolfgang Van Halen, whose father is the late rock star Eddie Van Halen, perform onstage.
The One Day At A Time star was taking in his latest gig with his band Mammoth at the SNHU Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire.
‘Color me contented,’ Bertinelli wrote in her caption. ‘Did my favorite thing in the world tonight. Got to watch my son kill it on stage.’
Bertinelli added she was, ‘Happy ✔️ Proud ✔️ Grateful ✔️.’
In a video she uploaded to her Instagram account, Bertinelli showed her son in a pink shirt and ripped jeans as he played a guitar on stage with the name of the band in the background.
Valerie Bertinelli has revealed what makes her happiest. On Thursday the 65-year-old actress shared it thrills her to watch her 34-year-old son Wolfgang Van Halen, whose father is the late rock star Eddie Van Halen, perform onstage
Mammoth will have a new album titled The End coming out on October 24 and he is kicking off his tour in Rancho Mirage, California, on October 31.
Bertinelli has already been involved with her son’s career: she had a role in his music video for the band’s song The End in May.
In August, Bertinelli touched on what Eddie, who died from cancer at the age of 65 in 2020, would think about his son.
‘Who do I yap to when there was really only one person I could talk to about Wolfie the way that we did?’ she wrote on Instagram.
‘The pride we both felt. Still feel. I’m grateful for where we landed. Through the ups and the downs to still alight where we did is a blessing.
‘I know we’d be screaming together in the stands watching him on stage. Seeing who could whistle the loudest. I will never not miss being able to experience that with you,’ she added.
This comes nearly two years after Wolfgang married his partner of eight years Andraia Allsop in Los Angeles.
The star was taking in his latest gig with his band Mammoth in Manchester, New Hampshire. ‘Color me contented,’ Bertinelli wrote in her caption. She shared a look at Wolfgang on stage. ‘Did my favorite thing in the world tonight. Got to watch my son kill it on stage’
Wolfgang and Andraia paid tribute to his late father Eddie throughout the ceremony, telling People they kept a chair empty for him at the ceremony and made memory charms with Wolf and Eddie on them for people to look at during the day.
Bertinelli also lent Andraia a necklace for the day which Eddie had given to her.
She shared: ‘Ed would’ve been absolutely beaming and so, so proud of the man Wolfie has become and is becoming and so happy that he has found Andraia, someone who really understands Wolfie, who he is and who he wants to be and supports him wholeheartedly.’
The couple wed in their living room with their reception for their 90 guests held in their backyard. The ceremony was officiated by one of the Van Halen’s closest family friends.
Wolfgang and his rock star father Eddie pictured onstage in 2012 in NYC
Eddie was 65 when he died after battling throat cancer for several years
During a glam shoot in Los Angeles in 1985
Both Wolfgang and Andraia wrote their own vows and honored their late loved ones in their speeches.
Wolfgang wore a custom three-piece suit while Andraia wore an Eva Lendel dress with sheer sleeves and beading.
Surprisingly Grammy-nominated star Wolfgang did not play at his wedding with the couple enlisting a DJ for their reception.
He quipped: ‘I think people’s first impression is like, “Oh, are you going to play something?” And it’s like, no, that’s the last thing I want to do. I’m going on tour in 11 days. I don’t want to.
‘Last thing I want to think about is playing anything.’
The couple first met on Instagram in 2015 with their first date seeing them enjoy sushi at Aroha before watching the sunset in Malibu.
The wedding comes after Eddie died following a stroke and longtime cancer battle.
The rocker had been suffering from pneumonia, the bone marrow disorder myelodysplastic syndrome, and lung cancer, but ultimately died of a stroke.
Wolfgang married his longtime partner Andraia Allsop in an intimate LA ceremony in 2023
The actress with Wolfgang and Andraia in April 2022
Bertinelli, best known for her work on One Day at a Time, Touched by an Angel and Hot in Cleveland, revealed in 2022 in her memoir Enough Already: Learning to Love the Way I Am Today that Eddie’s last words to her were ‘I love you.’
Bertinelli and Van Halen were married for 26 years and stayed close after their 2007 divorce, Bertinelli wrote, as she was by his side when he was dying.
In an excerpt of the memoir, Bertinelli revealed the touching last words they exchanged prior to his death at age 65, as well as the gift her ‘soulmate’ gave her during his battle with cancer.
Bertinelli and the ex-couple’s son Wolfgang were among the loved ones spending time with Eddie during his final weeks of life in the hospital. Also there was Van Halen’s second wife, Janie Liszewski, and his brother, Alex Van Halen.
