Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Valerie Bertinelliis sharing her takeaways from a difficult year. TheOne Day at a Timestar published a vulnerable Instagram post addressing "some of the most emotionally excruciating eight months" of her professional and personal life on Friday. In 2024, the actress joinedThe Drew Barrymore Showas a lifestyle expert and began hostingBingo Blitzon the Game Show Network, and also released a cookbook,Indulge. "And I still got my exhausted, sleepless ass up in the morning, put on a good face, and showed up, when all I wanted to do was stay in bed and sob," Bertinelli wrote. "This is not to say I feel sorry for myself because I don't." Following her 2022 divorce from Tom Vitale, Bertinelli began dating writer Mike Goodnough in January 2024, but the couple ultimatelyparted waysthis past November. "Nobody has the market cornered on grief and heartache," Bertinelli wrote. "People go through hard s--- all the time. You just do what you have to do to get through what you have to get through." Valerie Bertinelli/Instagram Despite her struggles, Bertinelli views the period as a learning experience. "I don't know that I would change any of it," she wrote. "I've learned so much more about my strength, my weaknesses, my patience, my resilience, and my worth. I still have more inner work left to do… and I'm okay with that. It's the good work." Sign up forEntertainment Weekly'sfree daily newsletterto get breaking TV news, exclusive first looks, recaps, reviews, interviews with your favorite stars, and more. TheHot in Clevelandstar also offered the wisdom she's gained from enduring a complicated era of her life. "If I could give you anything of value from my experience it would be this: Don't let the challenging days make you forget how far you've actually come," she wrote in her post. "No matter what, always believe in your core self. Do not allow the opinions of others or their experience with you color what you think of yourself. You did your best with what you knew at the time." The actress concluded her lengthy message with a call for her followers to "learn to love yourself," adding, "When we fall or get pushed down again, we can either wallow, navel-gaze, and be a victim, or we can get our asses back up and live our big, beautiful life." Bertinelliwished Goodnough wellon Instagram in March, several months after they broke up. "I look at life with a different perspective and caring because of my experiences and conversations with him," she reflected in a since-deleted post. "And he's been a big part of helping me heal from some old childhood wounds I never knew what to do with, or even where to start." "We may no longer be a couple, but you'll always hold a very special place in my heart," she concluded. "Love you." Read the original article onEntertainment Weekly
