Valerie Bertinelli on Narcissism: 'I'm Done'

0:00It's April 26, I'm quarried with the story, and this is entertainment in celebrity news today. AI powered and star driven. Valerie Bertinelli just dropped some real talk on her podcast. Getting naked, saying she's straight-up scared of jumping back into dating at 66. She's on high alert for narcissism red flags after past relationships that left her questioning her own worth. In the episode with Dr. Romani Derbasula, she admitted she didn't spot the signs until a few years back. She was noticing them in the political world. Before seeing them up close in her love life, she opened up about how those dynamics made her abandon herself completely to where her family was begging her to come back to them. Bertinelli explained that in the moment, it felt like she could fix everything by working harder to make her partner happy, ignoring her own needs to. Avoid seeming selfish. Fans and folks online are buzzing about her honesty, especially since she's been through high-profile splits, like her divorce from Eddie Van Halen in, 2007, her second marriage

1:01to Tom Batalli ending in 2022, and a recent 10-month thing with writer Mike Goodner that fizzled by late last year. She even called Vitaly a narcissist who emotionally tore her down. Derbasula broke down the traits, low empathy, arrogance, manipulation, gaslighting, and that constant need for control. Bertinelli shared wild stories like a partner accusing her of being the narcissist or guilting her over time with her son Wolfgang and how love, bombing or isolation tactics sneak in slow. Now, after writing her memoir, she's owning her inner strength and vowing not to tolerate that mess anymore. She's done internalizing the negativity and ready to spot those traps from a mile away.