Valerie Bertinelli says she and Edward Van Halen were in a “wonderful place” at the end of his life.
Bertinelli’s comments came from a new interview with USA Today. Below is an excerpt from an article written by Kim Willis:
In one of the cookbook’s intimate essays, Bertinelli writes that “though we got divorced, Ed and I never stopped loving each other. Who knows, if not for cancer, we might have had a second wind,” but “I’m pretty sure that is wistful thinking.”
She clarifies to USA TODAY that “wistful is a very different word than wishful. It was a wistful fantasy that I knew would never be true. The love that Ed and I shared ? and we did come to a very wonderful place at the end of his life ? was our unconditional love for our son. My son was losing his father, I was in a relationship that was terribly wrong for me, and I was holding onto some sort of lifeline because of the years I had with Ed. I was madly in love with him when I met him, but our love changed. He felt like a big brother to me that I just wanted the best for by the time he got very sick. All I wanted to do was make it OK for Ed, make it OK for Wolfie.
“You fantasize and romanticize what you know really never could be.”