Valerie Bertinelli Marks 1 Year Since Finalizing Divorce with Tom Vitale: 'What a Difference a Year Makes'

The Food Network star previously called Nov. 22—when she became officially divorced from Tom Vitale—the "second best day of my life"

Valerie Bertinelli is looking back at the past year with gratitude.

Nov. 22 marks one year since the Food Network star finalized her divorce with ex-husband Tom Vitale.

Bertinelli celebrated the milestone by re-posting her Instagram video from a year ago in which she announced that her divorce was official. In the November 2022 post, she shared a clip captured at an airport on the way to see her son Wolfgang Van Halen and revealed the news.

“My lawyer just called. The papers are all signed. They're about to be filed,” she said. "On 11/22/22, I am officially f---ing divorced. Happily divorced. Finally. It's finally over."

She ended the video with, "Yes!" Bertinelli also wrote the words "happily divorced" over her footage.

To mark the one-year milestone Wednesday, she wrote with the re-post: "What a difference a year makes 🥹🥰."

The actress filed for divorce from Vitale in May 2022, six months after filing for legal separation.

In November 2022, she shared on Twitter that she was celebrating what she called the "second best day of my life," when she became officially divorced from Vitale. (She was also married to the late Eddie Van Halen from 1981 to 2007.)

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In May, she shared a similar joyful post celebrating one year since she filed for divorce. "What a difference a year makes 💛🩷✌🏻," she wrote at the time.

Bertinelli has been candid with fans about her difficult journey navigating past trauma. In August, she opened up about her “healing journey” and the difficulties she has faced in the past.

"I think in the midst of a healing journey, we forget to pat ourselves on the back and really look back at how far we’ve come. I know I have been guilty of that," she said.

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Bertinelli went on to explain how the "little tiny voices" inside her head can sometimes win out — but it's rare.

Those voices made her question, "'How in the world I tolerated the intolerable, and what was I thinking? And 'I’m so stupid I should’ve known better, and I’m an idiot how could I have been so fooled, and why did I protect them for so long? And I should have left earlier,' " she gave as examples.

"Gratefully, those days are WAY fewer and far between. Almost nonexistent," she added. "I can really, truly give myself compassion because I know I was doing my best to love, to be generous, to be compassionate and have patience, even though I was never given the same respect."

Her inspirational post was accompanied by a video of a TikTok filter with a fill in the blank: "I will end 2023 with _" and Bertinelli's answer was "with no regrets."

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