Valerie Bertinelli says she is ‘mortified’ by Matthew Perry’s claim they KISSED
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Valerie Bertinelli cringes.
On Wednesday, the actress was seen making faces on TikTik when she said she was “mortified” about how she “misbehaved” in the 1990s.
The author referred to how Matthew Perry claimed he had kissed her when her husband Eddie Van Halen passed out. Bertinelli and Perry worked together on the TV show Sydney.
The claim was made in his forthcoming memoir Friends, Lovers, And The Big Terrible Thing.
Oops: Valerie Bertinelli cringes. On Wednesday, the actress was seen making faces on TikTik when she said she was “mortified” about how she “misbehaved” in the 1990s. The author referred to how Matthew Perry claimed he kissed her when her husband Eddie Van Halen passed out
Embarrassed: Bertinelli and Perry worked together on the Sydney TV show
In the clip, 62-year-old Valerie looks adorable making her embarrassing facial expressions while wearing her highlighted hair down.
She played Taylor Swift’s Anti-Hero song as “hi, it’s me.”
“Is there anyone else misbehaving in their twenties or early thirties?” she captioned the social media clip. “Are you hurt?”
Perry, 53, claims in his memoir that his crush on the former child star became so intense that he made love to her one night after her then-husband Eddie reportedly lost consciousness. Page six.
DailyMail.com has reached out to Bertinelli representatives for comment.
The actor recently sat down for an upcoming interview with Diane Sawyer in which he discussed the importance of having friends and a social safety net to fight his years-long struggle with addiction.
Pity: “Is there anyone else misbehaving in their twenties or early thirties?” she captioned the social media clip. “Are you hurt?”
His tell-tale book really tells it all: The claim was made in his forthcoming memoir Friends, Lovers, And The Big Terrible Thing
His idol: Perry and Bertinelli on the set of Sydney in 1990
Perry writes in his memoir that his stint as Valerie’s brother in Sydney became intense as he “fell madly in love with Valerie Bertinelli, who was clearly in a difficult marriage.”
He adds: ‘My crush was crushing; Not only was she way out of my league, but she was married to one of the most famous rock stars in the world, Eddie Van Halen.”
Perry describes how intense his crush on the actress was, which prompted him to plan a future together.
“It’s important to point out that my feelings for Valerie were real. I was totally captivated – I mean, I was obsessed with her and had elaborate fantasies about her leaving Eddie Van Halen and spending the rest of her days with me,” he writes.
In love: Perry ‘fell madly in love with Valerie’ while playing her brother on the series, and he says it seemed like her marriage was ‘difficult’
Finally: Perry says he and Bertinelli kissed at her house one night after Van Halen passed out from drinking too much
It eventually escalated when he was invited to Bertinelli and Van Halen’s home, where he “just hung out and stared at Valerie, trying to make her laugh.”
“When you made her laugh, you felt ten feet tall,” he gushes.
But “Eddie had been enjoying the fruits of the vine a little too hard, one more time, and in the end he just passed out, not ten feet from us,” says Perry, adding, “This was my chance!
“If you think I didn’t stand a chance in hell, you’re wrong, dear reader – Valerie and I had a long, elaborate make-out session. It happened—maybe she felt the same as me.’
He claims that Bertinelli even seemed to reciprocate his affection.
“I told her I’d thought long and hard about doing that, and she said it right back,” Perry says.
Failure: But she behaved normally when she went back to work, and the two never spoke of the rendezvous again. He said he was relieved when the show was cancelled; Bertinelli and Van Halen seen in 1990
But when he confessed the night with Bertinelli to fellow player Craig Bierko, Bierko was cautious rather than optimistic and told him to watch out for himself.
As for Bertinelli, she said nothing about what had happened and acted – as she should have been – as if this was a normal day.
“I quickly got the hint and played the part I was supposed to play, but inside I was devastated,” Perry says.
Bertinelli’s professionalism is said to have led to sleepless, tearful nights for the future Friends star, and he saw Sydney’s failure as an escape from the obsession, as he “didn’t need to see Valerie anymore.”
The actor offers a Freudian explanation for his attraction to Bertinelli and other women who could not love him.
“All my life I’ve been attracted to unavailable women. It doesn’t take a psychology degree to figure out that this had anything to do with my relationship with my mother,” he writes.
Freudian: ‘All my life I’ve been attracted to unattainable women. It doesn’t take a psychology degree to figure out that this had anything to do with my relationship with my mother,” he writes.
It takes a village: In an excerpt from his interview with Diane Sawyer, Perry says ‘addiction is way too bad to beat alone’
The last excerpt from his book comes ahead of Perry’s interview with Diane Sawyer for ABC News, in which he describes the importance of a support system to fight addiction.
Sawyer notes in the latest clip that Perry “sends postcards from hell to everyone who needs it.”
She says the actor, who was in a coma for weeks after his colon ruptured as a result of his opioid use, had “600 AA meetings,” along with “30 years” of therapy and 15 stints in rehab.
Addiction is far too terrible to beat alone, but together we can beat it day by day,” Sawyer reads from his memoir.
“Your illness is just outside, just doing one-armed pushups, just waiting for you, waiting to get you alone. Because alone you lose from the disease’, warns Perry.
In the company of Friends: “Your sickness is just outside, just doing one-armed pushups, just waiting for you, waiting to get you alone. Because only you lose from the disease’, warns Perry
However, he added that he now finally feels ‘OK’ and has some ‘strength’.
He explained that ‘OK’ means he ‘developed some safety nets around this. I’m doing really well now.
“For some reason – obviously I was on Friends – more people will listen to me,” he added.
His fame and platform led him to see the confessions of his memoirs as a form of reaching out to help others.
‘I have to take advantage of that. I have to help as many people as possible,” he says.
Perry’s memoir Friends, Lovers, And The Big Terrible Thing will be published Nov. 1.