In October 2001, after 20 years of marriage and one child, son Wolfgang, Eddie Van Halen and Valerie Bertinelli separated. Then, six years later, they divorced.

"One of the many reasons that Ed and I split up is to give Wolfie a better vision of what two people who are supposedly in love treat each other like. Ed and I weren't treating each other like two people that loved each other, and that's what Wolfie was seeing," Bertinelli wrote, via Oprah. According to Bertinelli, she hopes that once her son gets married and starts a family of his own, he will be smarter when it comes to choosing his life partner. 

"So I'm hoping that when he does get married and start a life for himself, that he takes his time and marries a friend and not just someone that he can't keep his hands off," she explained.

Van Halen died in October 2020 of throat cancer. He was just 65 years old.