Valerie Bertinelli’s Estranged Husband Tom Vitale Asks for Spousal Assist After Divorce Submitting

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Valerie Bertinelli and estranged husband Tom Vitale are shifting ahead with their divorce proceedings.

After the Golden Globe winner, 62, filed for divorce from Vitale, 58, final month after greater than 10 years of marriage, he requested Thursday to be awarded spousal assist in paperwork filed within the Los Angeles Superior Court docket, which have been obtained by PEOPLE.

Within the paperwork, Vitale additionally seeks to dam Bertinelli from requesting spousal assist, along with difficult the validity of their prenuptial settlement.

Bertinelli filed for authorized separation from the monetary planner in November, citing “irreconcilable variations” and he or she later amended her petition to ask for a divorce in Could.

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The Sizzling in Cleveland star married Vitale in 2011 throughout a New 12 months’s Day ceremony at their cliff-side Malibu house after a number of years of relationship. They have been launched by her brother Patrick.

She later informed PEOPLE she was “happier than ever” after the nuptials. “I may have spent the remainder of my life with Tom and never be married, however I needed to name him ‘my husband.’ I actually needed to share how I really feel about Tom with the individuals I really like,” Bertinelli stated.

Bertinelli was beforehand married to Eddie Van Halen from 1981 to 2007, and so they shared son Wolfgang, 31. Eddie died of a stroke at age 65 in Oct. 2020, after affected by cancers of the throat and lungs.

The One Day at a Time alum recounted how she stated goodbye to her “soulmate” Eddie in her memoir Sufficient Already: Studying to Love the Approach I Am At this time, sharing an excerpt completely in a January situation of PEOPLE.

“We have been portrayed as a mismatch,” she wrote. “The dangerous boy rock star and America’s sweetheart however privately, Ed wasn’t the individual individuals thought he was and neither was I.”

“‘I really like you’ are the final phrases Ed says to Wolfie and me, and they’re the final phrases we are saying to him earlier than he stops respiratory,” Bertinelli added.

Bertinelli admitted to PEOPLE that her love for Eddie did not play into the choice to separate from Vitale. “We grew aside,” she stated in January. “The choice has nothing to do with my love for Ed. I want Tom the perfect and I do know he feels the identical method about me.”