Valerie Bertinelli’s Ex-Boyfriend Mike Goodnough Speaks Out About Their Cut up

• Valerine Bertinelli’s ex-boyfriend Mike Goodnough shared an Instagram publish on Saturday, April 19, addressing a earlier social media assertion which he says “made it worse not higher”
• He expressed his remorse over sharing particulars concerning the “battle” between himself and the Meals Community star
• “Valerie and I had an advanced relationship,” wrote Goodnough, who dated Bertinelli for 10 months

Valerie Bertinelli’s ex-boyfriend Mike Goodnough is talking out about their break up — and sharing his regrets concerning the drama between them sparked by a social media publish.

In an Instagram publish shared on Friday, April 18, Goodnough, 54, addressed a earlier social media assertion he made that included candid particulars about their breakup.

“Penning this publish makes me completely depressing,” he started his prolonged message, which was accompanied by a graphic that learn: “You & me. The tip.”

“Nevertheless it seems like one thing I’ve to do,” the writer, who dated Bertinelli for 10 months, wrote. “A pair weeks in the past, there was an ado about battle between Valerie and I that ended up within the press. A publish of mine right here was the reason for it. I remorse having posted it. I want I hadn’t. The problem addressed was actual. My publish made it worse quite than higher.”

“Valerie and I had an advanced relationship,” Goodnough continued. “Our time as a pair ended months in the past however our shut contact solely actually ended not too long ago. So, it’s extra ‘contemporary’ than it could appear.”

The previous couple break up in November 2024, as confirmed completely to PEOPLE by a supply on the time. Earlier than this, Bertinelli was married to monetary planner Tom Vitale from 2011 to 2022, following her first marriage to the late Van Halen frontman Eddie Van Halen from 1981 to 2007.

Based on Goodnough, there have been an “limitless quantity” of issues that brought about the pair to interrupt up, a lot of them “exterior.”

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“They have been issues exterior of our relationship, per se, which nonetheless interfered,” he wrote. “The one factor that was by no means a difficulty was our love for one another. I beloved Valerie greater than I’ve ever beloved somebody in a relationship of alternative. (My love for my son is an entire totally different factor.).”

“In consequence, the dissolution of our relationship and approach it performed out has been by far essentially the most painful expertise of my life,” Goodnough continued. “It has been so acutely agonizing, it has totally modified the size of how a lot heartbreak can damage. What was as soon as a ten is now a 4.”

Goodnough completed the publish by confirming that their relationship had formally ended, stating that “this chapter is now closed for me,” as he famous that the pair had not spoken a lot over the previous few months. He additionally shared that he reached out to Bertinelli this week, and she or he didn’t reply.

“Over the previous few months, I had hoped we’d discover a solution to a delicate parting quite than a closed door however couldn’t appear to get us to at least one,” he wrote. “I reached out once more this week in that hope. No reply is a solution although. I settle for it.”

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“I gained’t have something extra to say about it — and nothing I’ve to say can be about it,” the writer added. “I’ve cried about this sufficient. It’s time to maneuver on.”

Earlier this month, Goodnough shared one other candid publish about their relationship that made headlines, as he wrote a uncooked, sincere assertion about their interactions since their breakup. He seemingly alleged that Bertinelli was making “hostile, dishonest and uncalled for backhanded swipes” aimed toward him.

“Valerie is in a warfare together with her ghosts. I’m simply the man who catches the bullets. And that isn’t new,” he wrote on the time.

Regardless of the difficulties the pair have been dealing with within the wake of their breakup, Goodnough additionally described being with Bertinelli final yr through the launch of her cookbook Indulge one in every of “essentially the most joyful” durations of his life.

“Our relationship as companions ended. My caring about her didn’t,” he famous.