Valerie Bertinelli is six months sober.
On July 1, the former Food Network star posted a sunny photo on Instagram to commemorate the milestone.
“In six months,. She captioned the photo, “No alcohol.” Bertinelli also mentioned the Reframe app, which is an “alcohol reduction and quitting app” that she used for support along the way.
Her boyfriend, Mike Goodnough, revealed that the two simply began this voyage together. “Funny how we both just randomly decided to stop drinking only weeks before we met each other,” Mike Goodnough commented on her post.
The author of the Indulge cookbook has been frank about her plan to abstain from alcohol for several months. In her April cover story for People, she explained that one of the reasons was that she didn’t “need anything to amplify my happiness right now.”
“I feel high just in life,” she commented at the time. “I recently went out to dinner with a buddy and ordered ginger ale in a wine glass. And it seemed like I was rejoicing.”
Bertinelli told people that while writing her biography, Enough Already, in 2022, she began to consider “removing alcohol from my life.”
“I was still going through a lot of crap, and I knew that I wanted to be on the road of intentionally finding my core happiness,” she told me.
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Those years were difficult for the actress, beginning with the loss of her first husband, singer Eddie Van Halen, in 2020 and ending with her breakup with her second husband, Tom Vitale, in 2022.
She said that food and drink were in her “toolkit for soothing and ignoring s— that I shouldn’t be soothing and ignoring.”
“I would go out and have a fun time and drink, and the next day, I would be so sad,” she told me. She explained, “My life was filled with a great deal of sadness, which alcohol exacerbated.”
Bertinelli emphasized the need to not numb emotional suffering. “Emotions contain information. When I started to genuinely investigate why I was feeling a specific way, I was usually able to go through it and come out the other side.”
Sobriety has been easier than she expected. “I’m actually shocked at how hard it’s not,” she informed me. “I relied on it for a long time,” she explained. Right now, I prefer how I feel to how the alcohol makes me feel.”