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- Entertainment
- Fox News
Valerie Bertinelli cries over ‘emotionally excruciating' personal struggle as she battles to stay sober
Valerie Bertinelli became emotional as she opened up about her battle to maintain her sobriety while experiencing "emotionally excruciating feelings." The 65-year-old former Food Network star, who has been sober since January 2024, recently took to Instagram to post several videos in which she candidly addressed fighting the urge to drink during a difficult time in her life. "I've been going through some really intense, uncomfortable, sad, emotionally excruciating feelings the last few days, and I want to drink. I want to numb it. I don't want to feel it," Bertinelli admitted. She continued, "But my logical mind is like, 'No, you don't want to do that. You don't want to numb it. You know what will help you feel better is to just feel the feelings. Get through to the other side. Have a good cry.' And yet, I can't cry." The "One Day at a Time" alum shared that she was also struggling with resisting indulging in unhealthy food as she dealt with her emotions. Over the past few years, Bertinelli has spoken out about her health journey and her decision to stop weighing herself. "I want to eat it away too," she said. "Like I want eat something that I know isn't necessarily going to put a lot of vitamins and minerals and fiber and protein into my body. The things that my body needs. Because I just want to numb these f---ed-up feelings." "So you know what I'm gonna do?" Bertinelli told her followers in another clip. "I'm going to come on the internet and slice a watermelon because I love watermelon." "It's watermelon season, and a watermelon will make me feel better, but it won't make me numb my feelings," she added as she teared up. The two-time Emmy Award winner proceeded to set a watermelon on a cutting board and began carving the fruit. "Slice the watermelon with me, OK?" Bertinelli told her fans. "We're going to eat watermelon, but I'm not eating too many feelings." "I'm going to feel my feelings while I slice the watermelon," she added with a laugh. In a follow-up video, Bertinelli began to cry as she sliced the watermelon. "It's gonna taste really good," she said as she displayed the watermelon which she cut in half. "This is my favorite time of year. It's watermelon season." Bertinelli emphasized the importance of facing painful emotions in a subsequent clip. "I have these feelings," she said. "I'm not going to talk about why I have them, where they came from, but I do want to talk about feelings and how when we suppress them, when we numb them, it only makes them stronger." "And it doesn't make us feel better about ourselves," she continued. "What happens is when we numb them, we feel bad about what we've done to numb the feelings. So then that adds on to whatever shame that we may have about those feelings. And it just adds an extra layer of shame, which is what we don't want. We just wanna be, like if we're sad, we just wanna to be sad. We just want to be sad." Bertinelli explained that choosing to eat healthy food like watermelons made her "happy." "Because it tastes so good and it's got vitamins and water and fiber and minerals," Bertinelli said. "And I'm not numbing my feelings," she said while continuing to cry. "I just know that I feel sad and it's just a feeling. It'll pass. Because I'm strong, and I'm good. I just happen to feel sad right now, and I'll get through it, and so can you. We don't have to drink alcohol or eat food to numb feelings that we just need to feel, so that these feelings can then feel heard." "Feelings are information," Bertinelli continued in the last video of her slideshow. "So now, every time I want to wallow in my sadness, which I don't want to do — I'm just going to have a bite of watermelon and ask my feelings what they want to tell me," she said as she lifted up a container of sliced watermelon. "Hope this was helpful," the actress concluded with a laugh. Bertinelli reiterated her message in the caption of her post, writing, "Feel your feelings. Do your best not to numb them. Feelings are information. Ask them what they need. Feel them. Get to the other side." In a follow-up post, Bertinelli shared a more cheerful update as she expressed her gratitude to her followers for their support. She noted how she felt less alone after fans posted their own stories of struggling with painful feelings in the comments. "Hey, just a quick thank you," the TV personality said with a smile. "I sometimes am incredibly surprised and reminded and and being reminded of how many amazing people there are out there So I just wanted to say thank you and thank you for sharing with each other in my comments section, supporting each other, supporting me. I support you." "It's just a really great feeling when you don't feel alone in feeling something," she continued. "And I ended up eating the whole watermelon that day and I'm not ashamed of that," Bertinelli added with a laugh. "Because I still felt all my feelings. I got to the other side and I'm in a better place and I am just grateful." "And even for those of you that wrote how offended you were, you know that you don't have to actually watch my videos and you don't have to comment that you can just keep going. It's OK. I'm not going to disturb your world if you don't want me to, but to all the rest of you, thank you. I just love that we're doing all this together."
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Valerie Bertinelli Opens Up About Her Haters and Working to Find Self-Love: 'Not Everybody's Gonna Like Me'
Valerie Bertinelli penned a lengthy Instagram post on Thursday, May 22 She detailed how she deals with bad days and what she has learned from the adverse reaction she gets after talking about them The celebrity chef also opened up about how social media has played a role in her change of mindsetValerie Bertinelli is on a self-love journey, and she's not afraid to talk about it. Days after opening up about "going through some of the most emotionally excruciating eight months of [her] life,' the celebrity chef, 65, penned a lengthy Instagram post about how she deals with bad days and what she has learned from the adverse reaction she gets after talking about them. Bertinelli started her post by talking about how people will assume you "cry too much" if you post about your bad days or think you "live in the past" if you post "too many throwback photos." She also said she believes people think she's "narcissistic" because she posts "too many photos" of herself on her Instagram page. The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now! The food expert recalled being younger and being told by her father that she had to be likable — a "flawed theory," Bertinelli said she worked through thanks to social media. "Love you, Pops and I hate to break it to you, but not everybody's gonna like me. And for the first time in my life, at 65, I'm more than okay with that," said Bertinelli. "Most importantly, I like me." The One Day at a Time alum said she considers herself lucky to have "extraordinary people" in her life who "like me and love me." "I'm a good person, I'm kind and caring, I treat others the way I want to be treated. I'm resilient, I'm low maintenance, I feel things deeply, I love hard, I exude equanimity from my soul," she wrote. "Equanimity is a daily choice I work at, encourage and feed." Bertinelli said that it is "someone else's choice whether they choose to be judgmental or harmful on my page or in my life." "The Block button works wonders on social media. It also works in the real world too," she wrote. As for the reason for posting the message, Bertinelli said she wanted to encourage others to go through the same life journey. "It takes hard work, digging down deep and getting help when you need it. An extra sounding board when you need it. Finding new tools for your emotional tool box," she wrote. "There's a reason those shadows are in you. They protected you when you needed to get through scary times in your past. You can put your arms around them and thank them for protecting you and for keeping you strong when you didn't think you had the strength," Bertinelli continued. She ended her post by telling her followers that "you're not a fraud by being two dialectical things at the same time. You're a bad ass because of those shadows. The shadows make your kindness shine brighter." In her Instagram Stories, Bertinelli reiterated the same sentiments by sharing an Instagram reel by Drew Barrymore in which Barrymore listed "judging others because their life choices are different than yours" as "propaganda I'm not falling for." Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Bertinelli also shared a quote that read, "It's not about seeing the good in them anymore, it's about seeing the truth in their actions." Read the original article on People
Daily Mail
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
AFL WAG Jordan Ablett holds back tears during emotional Sunrise interview about son Levi's rare genetic condition: 'All we have is today'
AFL WAG Jordan Ablett struggled to hold back tears on Wednesday as she opened up about her son Levi's rare genetic condition. Jordan, who shares Levi, six, with husband, footy great Gary Ablett Jr, appeared on Sunrise to discuss Levi's diagnosis and her new memoir One Day At A Time. Just over a year after Levi was born in 2019, he was diagnosed with Menkes, a rare recessive disorder that affects copper metabolism, leading to neurodegeneration, connective tissue problems, and short life expectancy. Speaking to hosts Natalie Barr and Matt Shirvington, an emotional Jordan, 33, said that despite the couple's son being non-verbal he has already taught her and Gary so much. 'Sometimes as parents, we kind of envision the perfect outcome and we create these scenarios in our head as though they're going to happen and as though they're guaranteed,' she said. Pausing to compose herself, Jordan added that Levi's condition had helped put things into perspective. 'I think having Levi has taught me that nothing is guaranteed in life and all we really have is today,' she said. 'It's about making the most of each day and not holding so tightly onto the things in this world and our dreams and desires because they're just not guaranteed, they're not promised to us, so it's about holding those things loosely and then being able to adapt when the plan changes.' The mum of three was almost moved to tears again when Matt asked about the strength of her relationship with Gary in the face of the ordeal. 'We've definitely had our lows, and I really feel for other parents that are raising a child with a disability because I get it, I fully get it, and there are so many layers, she said. 'I think people from the outside might... sorry... kind of presume that it's so heavily physical, but it's so mental as well. 'But I could not have asked for a better husband and a better father to raise Levi and to spend my life with. 'He's been absolutely incredible. Not once has he ever made it about him and about those plans and those things that we anticipated — that's just irrelevant.' Admitting that dealing with Levi's diagnosis had been a 'struggle', Jordan added it was one she could not have fought with out such a strong support network around her. 'It was tough, but thankfully I was just surrounded by the most amazing people in my friends and family, and even the greater community was incredible,' she said. Jordan kept her son's medical diagnosis under wraps as she learned to 'process' his heartbreaking condition, but revealed to VWeekend last week she was ready to talk about it. 'It was shocking… of course it was hard to first accept,' Jordan said of the diagnosis they received from his doctors in May 2020, adding the medication he is currently on will only 'slow the progression'. 'I know we are blessed and I know that when those hard days come, and they do, it's so important to not give into the emotions that follow and let them dictate your day and take away from the gift that it is,' she continued. 'I always knew deep down that I would eventually be open and transparent about it… I don't know what good can possibly come from not being that.' According to The Menkes Foundation, Menkes is a recessive disease linked to the X chromosome and is caused by gene mutations of the copper transporter ATP7A. The condition is characterised by distinctive clinical features, including sparse and de-pigmented hair, and connective tissue problems. Symptoms also include severe neurological issues such as seizures, hypotonia, failure to thrive, and neurodevelopmental delays. 'He's been absolutely incredible. Not once has he ever made it about him and about those plans and those things that we anticipated — that's just irrelevant,' she said Mortality is high in untreated Menkes disease, with many patients dying before the age of three years old. There is currently no complete cure for the disorder, but patients who are treated with parenteral copper histidinate (CuHis) can increase survival and lessen neurological symptoms if initiated early. Aside from Levi, Jordan and Gary also share daughter Grace, four, and son Ezra, two.
West Australian
23-04-2025
- Health
- West Australian
Gary Ablett Jr and wife Jordan share emotional journey of six-year-old son Levi's Menkes disease diagnosis
For over five years, Gary Ablett Jr and his wife Jordan shielded their son Levi's medical struggles from public view, navigating specialists, therapies, and unspoken fears. Now, as Levi turns six, the couple has broken their silence in a raw interview, peeling back layers of grief and resilience tied to a diagnosis. Jordan, 33, has described the moment in May 2020 when doctors identified Menkes disease, a rare genetic disorder disrupting copper metabolism, as a turning point that 'completely changed' their lives, speaking to the Herald Sun. 'It was shocking… of course it was hard to first accept,' Jordan admitted while recalling the prognosis: Neuro-degeneration, connective tissue degradation, and a life expectancy rarely surpassing early childhood. Levi's condition, caused by mutations in the ATP7A gene, manifests in sparse hair, seizures, and developmental delays. Most untreated children die before age three, but copper histidinate injections, started early, offer a fragile lifeline. The medication 'slows the progression,' Jordan said, emphasising that every milestone, like Levi reaching six, feels special. Behind closed doors, the Abletts have grappled with Levi's inability to speak or walk independently. 'He's changed me' Jordan shared in a 2021 interview with the Good Friday Appeal, referencing the constant vigilance against aspiration risks that could send food into his lungs. Regular telehealth check-ins with Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital punctuate their routine, with respiratory health dominating concerns, according to the same interview. Yet amid the medical jargon, Jordan clings to Levi's 'constant sunshine', as she posted on Instagram, also his laughter, his bond with younger sister Grace, and his quiet determination. 'His life has been a message,' she insisted in the Good Friday appeal article, rejecting pity. In her upcoming memoir One Day At A Time, Jordan details the 'happy and sad tears' of parenting a terminally ill child, framing their journey as a call to cherish fleeting moments, as announced in her October 2024 social media posts ahead of the book's April 2025 release. With Menkes having no cure, the Abletts now channel their energy into advocacy, hoping their story softens the isolation felt by similar families through initiatives like Jordan's 2022-launched House of Hope. Teasing her memoir on Instagram Jordan wrote: 'I am so excited to finally share with you all that I have been working hard behind the scenes for almost one year now, writing my very own book!' 'I can't begin to explain how special this feels for me, and for my family, who have journeyed all of life's highs and lows with me, feeling every single bump and joy along the way. There have been plenty of tears cried while writing this book, both happy and sad tears, but being able to share my story, and hopefully encourage others, has made all 'the feels' worth it. 'I hope that by reading my story, parents of children with a disability will feel less alone, more capable, and will, if they don't already, look at their child through a different lens, seeing them as what they are, a genuine treasure!'
Perth Now
23-04-2025
- Health
- Perth Now
Gary Ablett Jr's wife share news of 6yo son's fatal illness
For over five years, Gary Ablett Jr and his wife Jordan shielded their son Levi's medical struggles from public view, navigating specialists, therapies, and unspoken fears. Now, as Levi turns six, the couple has broken their silence in a raw interview, peeling back layers of grief and resilience tied to a diagnosis. Jordan, 33, has described the moment in May 2020 when doctors identified Menkes disease, a rare genetic disorder disrupting copper metabolism, as a turning point that 'completely changed' their lives, speaking to the Herald Sun. 'It was shocking… of course it was hard to first accept,' Jordan admitted while recalling the prognosis: Neuro-degeneration, connective tissue degradation, and a life expectancy rarely surpassing early childhood. Levi's condition, caused by mutations in the ATP7A gene, manifests in sparse hair, seizures, and developmental delays. Most untreated children die before age three, but copper histidinate injections, started early, offer a fragile lifeline. The medication 'slows the progression,' Jordan said, emphasising that every milestone, like Levi reaching six, feels special. Behind closed doors, the Abletts have grappled with Levi's inability to speak or walk independently. 'He's changed me' Jordan shared in a 2021 interview with the Good Friday Appeal, referencing the constant vigilance against aspiration risks that could send food into his lungs. Regular telehealth check-ins with Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital punctuate their routine, with respiratory health dominating concerns, according to the same interview. Yet amid the medical jargon, Jordan clings to Levi's 'constant sunshine', as she posted on Instagram, also his laughter, his bond with younger sister Grace, and his quiet determination. 'His life has been a message,' she insisted in the Good Friday appeal article, rejecting pity. In her upcoming memoir One Day At A Time, Jordan details the 'happy and sad tears' of parenting a terminally ill child, framing their journey as a call to cherish fleeting moments, as announced in her October 2024 social media posts ahead of the book's April 2025 release. With Menkes having no cure, the Abletts now channel their energy into advocacy, hoping their story softens the isolation felt by similar families through initiatives like Jordan's 2022-launched House of Hope. Teasing her memoir on Instagram Jordan wrote: 'I am so excited to finally share with you all that I have been working hard behind the scenes for almost one year now, writing my very own book!' 'I can't begin to explain how special this feels for me, and for my family, who have journeyed all of life's highs and lows with me, feeling every single bump and joy along the way. There have been plenty of tears cried while writing this book, both happy and sad tears, but being able to share my story, and hopefully encourage others, has made all 'the feels' worth it. 'I hope that by reading my story, parents of children with a disability will feel less alone, more capable, and will, if they don't already, look at their child through a different lens, seeing them as what they are, a genuine treasure!'
