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Valerie Bertinelli and estranged husband Tom Vitale are transferring ahead with their divorce proceedings.
After the Golden Globe winner, 62, filed for divorce from Vitale, 58, final month after greater than 10 years of marriage, he requested Thursday to be awarded spousal help in paperwork filed within the Los Angeles Superior Courtroom, which had been obtained by PEOPLE.
Within the paperwork, Vitale additionally seeks to dam Bertinelli from requesting spousal help, along with difficult the validity of their prenuptial settlement.
Bertinelli filed for authorized separation from the monetary planner in November, citing “irreconcilable variations” and he or she later amended her petition to ask for a divorce in Might.
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The Scorching in Cleveland star married Vitale in 2011 throughout a New 12 months’s Day ceremony at their cliff-side Malibu dwelling after a number of years of courting. They had been launched by her brother Patrick.
She later advised PEOPLE she was “happier than ever” after the nuptials. “I might have spent the remainder of my life with Tom and never be married, however I needed to name him ‘my husband.’ I actually needed to share how I really feel about Tom with the folks I like,” Bertinelli mentioned.
Bertinelli was beforehand married to Eddie Van Halen from 1981 to 2007, they usually shared son Wolfgang, 31. Eddie died of a stroke at age 65 in Oct. 2020, after affected by cancers of the throat and lungs.
The One Day at a Time alum recounted how she mentioned goodbye to her “soulmate” Eddie in her memoir Sufficient Already: Studying to Love the Approach I Am At present, sharing an excerpt solely in a January subject of PEOPLE.
“We had been portrayed as a mismatch,” she wrote. “The dangerous boy rock star and America’s sweetheart however privately, Ed wasn’t the individual folks thought he was and neither was I.”
“‘I like you’ are the final phrases Ed says to Wolfie and me, and they’re the final phrases we are saying to him earlier than he stops respiration,” Bertinelli added.
Bertinelli admitted to PEOPLE that her love for Eddie did not play into the choice to separate from Vitale. “We grew aside,” she mentioned in January. “The choice has nothing to do with my love for Ed. I want Tom the very best and I do know he feels the identical approach about me.”
