Eddie Van Halen’s ex-wife, Valerie Bertinelli, recently spoke to People magazine where she talked about the late guitarist, as she is promoting her memoir titled “Enough Already: Learning To Love The Way I Am Today”.
Here’s what she said:
“I can’t explain the feelings Ed and I had for each other. Who really knows had he not died. I doubt it. I loved him more than I know how to explain and there’s nothing sexual about it. It was more than that. And Ed and I understood that.
“There is no greater love than what we had between the two of us and with that, we made this beautiful son.
“We were really kind of homebodies. Except for our jobs: mine on television and Ed’s in front of thousands and thousands of people playing, those were just things that we did; that wasn’t who we are. And we kind of lived a very quiet, sheltered life together.
“I mean, there were some crazy times, yes, because there were drugs and alcohol; I mean, the ’80s were crazy, but when you get down to it, Ed had the most generous heart. He was so kind. He just didn’t know how to be that way with himself because he was in so much pain, and he dealt with his pain through drugs and alcohol. And I was too young to really be as compassionate as I could have been back then.”