Mike Goodnough is hoping to clear the air about his much-buzzed-about break up from Valerie Bertinelli.
Final Friday, Goodnough opened up about his “complicated relationship” with Bertinelli in a prolonged Instagram publish, noting there have been “external” obstacles that prevented him and the actor-turned-celebrity-chef from having fun with a extra secure romance.
“The one thing that was never an issue was our love for each other,” the life-style author defined. “I loved Valerie more than I’ve ever loved someone in a relationship of choice. (My love for my son is a whole different thing)”.
Describing the demise of his relationship with Bertinelli as “by far the most painful experience of my life,” Goodnough stated he reached out to his ex final week in hopes of discovering “a way to a gentle parting rather than a closed door,” however by no means heard again.
“No answer is an answer though. I accept it,” he wrote. “With that said, this chapter is now closed for me. … I’ve cried about this enough. It’s time to move on.”
Elsewhere within the publish, Goodnough expressed remorse over current feedback that had ignited a recent wave of hypothesis about his breakup with Bertinelli.
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He seemed to be alluding to a since-deleted April 1 Instagram publish wherein he’d accused his ex of “lapsing into a place where she has been playing a one-woman tennis match thinking there is someone on the other side of the net.”
On Sunday, Goodnough replied to a Threads consumer who criticized his remarks as they’d appeared in a current Folks article and urged that Bertinelli had left him.
“I ended the relationship,” he wrote. “You tried though. You really tried.”
A consultant for Bertinelli didn’t instantly reply to HuffPost’s request for remark.
Bertinelli, who beforehand hosted “Valerie’s Home Cooking” and “Kids Baking Championship” on the Meals Community, was married to rock musician Eddie Van Halen from 1981 to 2007. In 2011, she and financier Tom Vitale tied the knot, however break up about 11 years later.
She first confirmed her romance with Goodnough in a March 2024 interview with Folks to advertise her newest cookbook, “Indulge.”
“It’s unlike any relationship that I’ve ever experienced with a man,” she stated, noting that the pair had been speaking by way of Instagram earlier than they started relationship. “He was not on my radar. I was going to die with my six cats and my dog and be incredibly happy doing it. So this came out of left field, and I’m grateful it did. He’s very special.”
The pair went on to make their crimson carpet debut in June on the 2024 Daytime Emmy Awards, however by November, the connection had come to a finish.
