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May 15, 2020 · Published May 15, 2020 5:00am EDT. Video. Fox News Flash top entertainment headlines for May 14. Tragedy struck Valerie Bertinelli’s family before she was born. The actress is the third of five...
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May 14, 2020 · Entertainment. TV. Valerie Bertinelli on Death of Brother at 17 Months Old: 'My Parents Kept the Tragedy Locked Inside'. "He was only 17 months old. He died in the most horrible way," Valerie...
The two met after Andrew Bertinelli offered her a ride home from a movie so that she wouldn't have to wait for a bus in the snow. ... About nine months after her ex-husband's death, Bertinelli was ...
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The Bertinelli family declined to discuss the funeral arrangements for Van Halen because they want to keep it private. David, 59, and his siblings, Patrick, 56, Drew, 65, and Valerie, 60, were all born in Delaware. Their father, Andy, worked at a GM factory there. They had another brother, Mark, who died when he was 17 months old after he accidenta...
It wouldn't be the first time the Bertinellis would astonish Fabrizio. The neighbors kept in touch after Andy got transferred to Van Nuys, California, in 1971. In fact, Andy's wife, Nancy Bertinelli, painted as a hobby and sent the Fabrizio family her painting of the Santa Barbara Mission, a piece of artwork Fabrizio hopes to give to David. Years a...
When the Bertinelli family landed in California, Valerie went from being a babysitter to a TV star. In December 1975, the TV comedy "One Day at a Time" aired. Valerie, then 15, played Barbara Cooper in it. The show, produced by Norman Lear, was a success, ending production in 1984. Fabrizio remains amazed at how Valerie was the kid next door one mi...
By the summer of 1980, David moved to Louisiana with his parents when Valerie learned Van Halen was set to play a concert in Shreveport. Their brother, Patrick, knew a local radio DJ who got them all tickets and backstage passes to the show. Valerie was on the first flight there. “She had it in her mind, ‘I gotta meet this guy Eddie Van Halen,' " D...
During the couple's 20 years together, David Bertinelli got to know Van Halen as a man, beyond a musician, and the two became close friends. Bertinelli was a budding photographer in the early 1980s, so he would often go on the road with the band, capturing every moment he could. "I’d take pictures of them," Bertinelli said. "It was a difficult thin...
After marrying Valerie Bertinelli, Van Halen grew close to the entire Bertinelli family, especially Valerie's mom, Nancy, who died last year. Valerie's dad retired in 1984 after 32 years with GM and died four years ago. Both were 82. "There’s a picture of all of us in Louisiana. It's Ed and Val ... our dog, all in the backyard and he fits right in,...
The family's good times extended to living under the same roof. In the late 1980s, Andy, Nancy, Patrick and David lived with Valerie and Van Halen in her house in Malibu. "My older brother (Drew) lived across the street and at one point Sammy Hagar bought a house nearby," Bertinelli said. "We had a trampoline out back and we’d all get on the trampo...
But underscoring the fun was always music, Bertinelli said. Van Halen knew he had been given a gift and he wanted to share it with the world, Bertinelli said. That meant constantly creating and practicing music until it was perfect. "When I’d go to their house in California and crash on their couch, Ed would sometimes come in the living room and it...
When Van Halen's son, Wolfgang, was born in 1991, it became evident early on that the boy had his father's gift, Bertinelli said. On a visit to his sister's house in Los Angeles many years ago, Bertinelli recalls hearing some "really good drum playing" upstairs. "I said to Val, 'What’s that?' and she said, 'Oh, that’s Wolfie up there playing,' " Be...
Beyond music, Van Halen was a generous man with his money and his time. In August 2019, Bertinelli called Van Halen to ask whether the rock star would be willing to donate one of his guitars for Bertinelli's son's school, St. Mary School in Charlevoix, for a fundraiser. He said Van Halen, "doesn’t normally donate his guitars." "I asked, 'Could it b...
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May 16, 2020 · Valerie lost her father, Andrew Bartinelli, in 2016. Her mother, Nancy, passed on almost three years later. The actress said that whenever she looked back, she knew that they did the best they could. Bartinelli also opened up about her weight loss and journey to a fab physique. She said:
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The only girl in a house full of boys, Valerie Bertinelli was the third of Andrew and Nancy Bertinelli's five children. The arrival of a little girl after the birth of two boys should have added ...
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Sep 12, 2020 · Along the way, Williamson added actor John Dye to the ensemble, in the role of Andrew, the angel of death, and later, Valerie Bertinelli was created (literally) as Gloria, a novice angel.
