Valerie Bertinelli is ‘mortified’ after Matthew Perry revealed her makeup in his memoir, Friends, lovers and the big terrible thing.
The 62-year-old actress posted a TikTok video of Taylor Swift on Wednesday. antihero waving to the camera and smiling as the lyrics “Hi, it’s me” played.
“Anyone else misbehaving in their 20s and early 30s?” she captioned the upload on social media. “Are you mortified?”
Perry’s book, released Nov. 1, describes her crush on Bertinelli while filming the sitcom Sydney in 1990 while married to Eddie Van Halen.
The Friends star writes that the Hot in Cleveland the alum’s marriage was “clearly … troubled.”
Perry recalls harboring “elaborate fantasies about her leaving Eddie Van Halen and living out the rest of her days” with him.
When the rocker once “enjoyed the fruits of the vine a little too hard” and “passed out 10 feet away” from Perry and Bertinelli, the duo had “a long, elaborate makeout session,” according to the book.
The 17 Again The star recalls: “I told her I had been thinking about doing it for a long time and she told me straight away.”
However, Bertinelli later “made no mention of what had happened”, which Perry writes left him “devastated”.
Bertinelli and Van Halen’s relationship ended in 2001, 10 years after welcoming son Wolfgang, now 31.
She married financial planner Tom Vitale in 2011, but they divorced in May.
In October 2020, Van Halen died at the age of 65. The guitarist was fighting throat cancer.
Perry’s memoir covers his own A-list relationships, from his decision to break up with Julia Roberts to his date with Cameron Diaz.
The Fools sign up The star, who has been sober for 18 months, also delves into his addiction struggles in the book.
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