Valerie Bertinelli doesn’t need to take her breakup with Mike Goodnough one day at a time.
In fact, the Hot in Cleveland alum said she’s “irreversibly changed by him for the better” despite their split.
“I know I am becoming a much stronger and more benevolent human for having met him and spent time with him,” she wrote on Instagram March 3. “I look at life with a different perspective and caring because of my experiences and conversations with him. And he’s been a big part of helping me heal from some old childhood wounds I never knew what to do with or even where to start.”
Though the two are “no longer a couple,” Valerie said the writer—whose The Hoarse Whisperer account on X, formerly Twitter, has over 360,000 followers—will “hold a very special place” in her heart.
“Before I had the pleasure of meeting Mike, I was initially and immediately attracted to his writing. It’s heartfelt, authentic, smart, funny, sensitive, caring, and from the soul,” she shared. “And as luck would have it, the human being in person is exactly as heartfelt, authentic, sensitive and caring as his writing.”
