Eddie Van Halen Makes a Wild Child Out of Valerie Bertinelli -- Twisted Tales
not long after their wedding, Bertinelli said she and her husband had taken a little of "each other's personality." He'd calmed down a little, she claimed, while she was getting a little wilder. To change her image, she was taking more "adult" roles, starting with the lead in the made-for-TV movie 'I Was a Mail Order Bride.'
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By the time Hagar joined the group, as he recounts in 'Red,' his best-selling new memoir, the Van Halens were living in squalor in a modest two-bedroom house with a filthy recording studio in the garage. They had to blow ashes off the mixing board just to plug in. They called the studio 5150 (also the name of their first album with Hagar) -- police code for dealing with a crazy person.
On her TV show, Bertinelli acted opposite Mackenzie Phillips, the notoriously troubled daughter of Mamas and the Papas founder John Phillips, who played the rebellious Cooper sister, Julie. In reality, Bertinelli's struggles with drugs and alcohol kept pace with those of her former acting partner.
Eddie Van Halen's well-documented appetite for self-destruction is one big reason 'Red' is selling so well. As it turns out, Bertinelli matched him blow for blow. Cocaine abuse made her dread mornings. "It took me years after stopping the cocaine before I was able to enjoy a sunrise and enjoy the sound of birds," she told Oprah Winfrey a few years ago.
By then, she and her beloved Edward were divorced, their marriage a casualty of mutual indulgence. They have since both remarried, with each attending the other's second wedding. Meanwhile, their son, Wolfgang, who turned 20 in March, has been Van Halen's bassist since 2006. He's the pride and joy of the twosome CNN once
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