Valerie Bertinelli Looks Back at the 'Pure Joy' and 'Fear' of 2023: 'Quite the Journey This Year'

Mar. 15, 2025

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Valerie Bertinelliis looking back at her transformative year and sharing her highlights.

After recapping the past 12 months in anInstagram Reelahead of the Christmas holiday, the Food Network star posted another video montage to ring in the new year.

Much like her first roundup, her second reel included snaps from a trip to Amsterdam, clips from her sonWolfgang Van Halen’s shows with his band Mammoth WVH and moments fromWolfgang’s wedding.

Bertinelli also snuck some fun clips fromTaylor Swift’s Eras Tour into the video as well as some flicks she took on a trip to Paris. She even got a new tattoo.

“It’s been quite the journey this year! 🥹 🥰 You can see the relief and even a little fear in the opening clip (shot on January 1, 2023) and the pure joy that starts to take hold as I find my way back to myself throughout the year. (shout out to my therapist for kindly walking me through all the uncomfortable emotional work 😅),” Bertinelli captioned the post.

She continued: “I have so much gratitude for my family and friends, finally being able to freely spend time with them has been such a big source of comfort, joy, hilarity, and healing. I love them all so. ✨♥️”

Bertinelli also thanked her “community here online” for sharing their stories and insight with her.

“And do me a favor? Indulge in your life. The good, the bad, and the ugly. Feel it all, then do your best to release what doesn’t belong to you. Please don’t tolerate the intolerable. You deserve better. We all do,” she concluded. “We deserve the best this life has to offer. We ARE enough and I am so thankful for every single one of you. 🥹💖 Here’s to a glorious 2024! 🥂💫”

In October, Bertinelli helped Wolfgang celebrate his marriage to his longtime love Andraia Allsop at the couple’s home in Los Angeles.

The rocker and Andraia, who have been together for eight years, tied the knot on Oct. 15, which matched their first-date anniversary on Oct. 15, 2015.

Wolfgang wore a custom three-piece black suit for the event. Hewalked down the aisle with his momto a song that his father Eddie Van Halen, whodied from throat cancerat age 65, wrote for him.

“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,” Bertinelli, 63 told PEOPLE ahead of her son’s nuptials.

Andraia Allsop, Wolfgang Van Halen, and Valerie Bertinelli at the 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards on April 03, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada.Frazer Harrison/Getty

Frazer Harrison/Getty

In November, Bertinelli marked one year sincefinalizing her divorcewith ex-husband Tom Vitale.

“My lawyer just called. The papers are all signed. They’re about to be filed,” she said. “On 11/22/22, I am officially f—ing divorced.Happily divorced. Finally. It’s finally over.”

She ended the video with, “Yes!” Bertinelli also wrote the words “happily divorced” over her footage.

To mark the one-year milestone, she wrote with the re-post: “What a difference a year makes 🥹🥰.”

source: people.com