Valerie Bertinelli’s ex Mike Goodnough shed some light on his “complicated” relationship with the “One Day at a Time” actress as he issued a lengthy statement on their breakup.
“Writing this post makes me absolutely miserable,” he began his caption via Instagram Friday, which accompanied a graphic that read: “You & me. The end.”
“But it feels like something I have to do.”
Goodnough went on to reference a reported one-sided conflict between the exes that took place earlier this month, accepting fault for the whole ordeal.
“A post of mine here was the cause of it. I regret having posted it. I wish I hadn’t. The issue addressed was real. My post made it worse rather than better,” he said.
“Valerie and I had a complicated relationship. Our time as a couple ended months ago but our close contact only really ended recently. So, it is more ‘fresh’ than it would seem.”
The author also insinuated their relationship ended due to “things outside of [their] relationship” that “interfered.”
“The one thing that was never an issue was our love for each other. I loved Valerie more than I’ve ever loved someone in a relationship of choice. (My love for my son is a whole different thing.),” he shared.
“As a result, the dissolution of our relationship and way it played out has been by far the most painful experience of my life.”
“It has been so acutely agonizing, it has entirely changed the scale of how much heartbreak can hurt. What was once a 10 is now a four,” he closed.
Bertinelli and Goodnough reportedly split in November 2024 after 10 months of dating.
At the time, a source told People that the couple were no longer together. However, Goodnough seemed to neither confirm nor deny the news in a statement given to the outlet.
“Valerie and I are the only two people with insight into our relationship. Neither of us pays much attention to chatter among people outside of it,” Goodnough said.
Bertinelli began dating Goodnough in January 2024. Though, she didn’t reveal her new relationship publicly until March 2024.
She publicly spoke out regarding their split last month, telling her Instagram followers that she initially fell for the author’s writing before she fell in love with him.
“I met the @therealhoarse in person a year ago today and I am irreversibly changed by him for the better. I know I am becoming a much stronger and more benevolent human for having met him and spent time with him,” she wrote at the time.
