Overview
- Valerie Bertinelli, who spoke Wednesday on Ted Danson’s Where Everybody Knows Your Name, said hotel staff in Brazil blocked her from an upper floor after assuming she and Valeri Kendall were sex workers.
- She said she had to call Eddie Van Halen from a lobby phone because there were no cellphones, and he came down to escort them upstairs.
- Bertinelli also revisited how she met Eddie backstage in Shreveport in 1980, moved in soon after, and married him eight months later.
- She noted that both used drugs and drank in the 1980s, that she later quit while he did not, and that he spent years fighting cancer before dying in 2020 at age 65.
- Coverage repeats that the couple married in 1981 and had son Wolfgang in 1991, while some outlets list the split as 2001 and others as 2007.