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Valerie Bertinelli got candid about her 20-year marriage to the late Eddie Van Halen in her .
The 65-year-old actress was . Their divorce was finalized in 2007.
Van Halen died in October 2020 at age 65 following a stroke and throat battle.
'He wanted to be the right person, the good person that he already was,' she penned about her ex-husband in the book, published on Tuesday. 'His heart was always pure. He was such a good man.'
According to an Us Weekly account, Bertinelli recalled that they were 'madly in love starting out.'
'My final words to him when he was taking his last breaths in the hospital were "I love you,"' she wrote.
Valerie Bertinelli gets candid about her 20-year marriage to the late Eddie Van Halen in her new memoir, Getting Naked: The Quiet Work of Becoming Perfectly Imperfect; pictured in June 2024
The 65-year-old actress was married to Van Halen from 1981 until their separation in 2001. Their divorce was finalized in 2007; pictured in 1985
The exes
Elsewhere in her new release, Bertinelli divulged, 'At the last Thanksgiving we shared, he took me outside and opened his heart in a way he said was way past due.
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'He wanted to be the right person, the good person that he already was,' she penned about her ex-husband in the book, published on Tuesday. 'His heart was always pure. He was such a good man'; pictured in 1996
The exes shared son Wolfgang Van Halen, 34
She announced her book, titled Getting Naked: The Quiet Work of Becoming Perfectly Imperfect, in early October
She announced her book in early October.
