Valerie Bertinelli Marks 1 Year Since Finalizing Divorce with Tom Vitale: 'What a Difference a Year Makes'

Mar. 15, 2025

Valerie Bertinelli.Photo: Dominik Bindl/Getty

Valerie Bertinelliis looking back at the past year with gratitude.

Nov. 22 marks one year since the Food Network starfinalized 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 Wednesday, she wrote with the re-post: “What a difference a year makes 🥹🥰.”

Valerie Bertinelli Marks Milestone Since Finalizing Her Divorce.Valerie Bertinelli/ Instagram

Valerie Bertinelli/ Instagram

The actressfiled for divorcefrom Vitale in May 2022, six months afterfiling for legal separation.

In November 2022, sheshared on Twitterthat she was celebrating what she called the “second best day of my life,” when she became officially divorced from Vitale. (She was also married to the lateEddie Van Halenfrom 1981 to 2007.)

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In May, she shared a similar joyful post celebrating one year since she filed for divorce. “What a difference a year makes 💛🩷✌🏻,” she wrote at the time.

Bertinelli has been candid with fans about her difficult journey navigating past trauma. In August, sheopened up about her “healing journey”and the difficulties she has faced in the past.

“I think in the midst of a healing journey, we forget to pat ourselves on the back and really look back at how far we’ve come. I know I have been guilty of that,” she said.

Bertinelli went on to explain how the “little tiny voices” inside her head can sometimes win out — but it’s rare.

Those voices made her question, “‘How in the world I tolerated the intolerable, and what was I thinking? And ‘I’m so stupid I should’ve known better, and I’m an idiot how could I have been so fooled, and why did I protect them for so long? And I should have left earlier,’ " she gave as examples.

“Gratefully, those days are WAY fewer and far between. Almost nonexistent,” she added. “I can really, truly give myself compassion because I know I was doing my best to love, to be generous, to be compassionate and have patience, even though I was never given the same respect.”

source: people.com