Valerie Bertinelli hasn’t had the best time of issues in terms of love. Her candid courting confessions reveal how tragic her love life is following her cut up from boyfriend Mike Goodnough, with whom she was in a short however severe relationship. “I’ve two failed marriages and fumbled the final true good man I met,” Bertinelli confessed on Instagram after her final breakup, per Web page Six. The 2 had been collectively for lower than a yr after assembly on the photo-sharing app in 2024 — the very same means her son, Wolfgang van Halen, met his spouse, Andraia Allsop. Regardless of showing to be on good phrases, each have since hinted that their cut up could have been extra difficult and messier than they initially let on.

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In a message posted in April 2025, Goodnough uncovered his shady facet as he accused Bertinelli of repeatedly taking “backhanded swipes” at him on social media, in response to Fox Information. After receiving DMs from followers asking whether or not he and Bertinelli had been engaged in a phrase struggle, Goodnough addressed the hypothesis in a put up, saying, “That’s not the case. I’ve by no means at any time posted one thing on social media for the needs of speaking with somebody not directly after I know them personally and have ample methods to succeed in them straight,” principally calling Bertinalli immature. “I’m an grownup,” Goodnough argued. “I’m very able to speaking overtly and straight with folks I do know and care about.”

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He went on to slam Bertinelli for “enjoying a one-woman tennis match” with herself, by which she makes up situations in her head and will get labored up over nothing. “She simply will not cease taking pictures,” stated Goodnough. “Valerie is in a struggle together with her ghosts. I am simply the man who catches the bullets. And that is not new.”

Since then, Mike Goodnough has taken down his rant towards Valerie Bertinelli and posted a well-thought-out message on Instagram addressing their fallout. He started by sharing his remorse over letting his feelings get the perfect of him and acknowledged the harm his put up had brought on. Noting that they’d been on talking phrases till just lately, Goodnough defined that their cut up nonetheless feels uncooked to him regardless of on a regular basis that is handed. He additionally opened up about their breakup, saying there have been quite a lot of the reason why their downfall was inevitable. “Nearly all of them had been ‘exterior,'” he famous. “They had been issues outdoors of our relationship per se which nonetheless interfered.”

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No matter how issues unfolded, Goodnough stated his love and emotions for Bertinelli by no means modified, which is why it pains him to be on this state of affairs together with her. “[This] has been by far probably the most painful expertise of my life,” he mused. “It has been so acutely agonizing, it has completely modified the dimensions of how a lot heartbreak can harm.” He had tried to succeed in out in hopes that they may save no less than their friendship however acquired no response from the actor. So with a heavy coronary heart, “This chapter is now closed for me,” Goodnough concluded his put up. “I’ve cried about this sufficient. It is time to transfer on.”

To be honest, Bertinelli has taken accountability for her function within the breakup, admitting her previous traumas could have affected the way in which she dealt with her points with Goodnough. “I do not need that to be an excuse, however you may replicate again and go, ‘Oof, I may have dealt with that higher had I not let previous traumas take over — or my ego,'” she confessed on “The Drew Barrymore Present” (through Individuals).

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