Valerie Bertinelli’s ex Mike Goodnough is clearing things up about their relationship while retracting an Instagram post where he blasted her for blasting him.

The 64-year-old One Day At a Time star dated the 54-year-old lifestyle writer for 10 months from March 2024 to November 2024 before their split.

Goodnough took to Instagram in early April to slam his ex for her social media posts and insisted he wasn’t engaging in a ‘war of words’ with her.

While he said there is ‘no war between us,’ he also called her out for, ‘the array of hostile, dishonest, and uncalled-for backhanded swipes she continues to take at me.’

After deleting the post he sent a few weeks back, he shared another lengthy post where he talks about trying to move on from the relationship.

He adds in the post that he has, ‘cried about it enough’ and just wants to move on from Bertinelli.

Valerie Bertinelli’s ex Mike Goodnough is clearing things up about their relationship while retracting an Instagram post where he blasted her for blasting him . 

The 64-year-old One Day At a Time star dated the 54-year-old lifestyle writer for 10 months from March 2024 to November 2024 before their split

‘Writing this post makes me absolutely miserable But it feels like something I have to do,’ Goodnough began.

‘A couple weeks ago, there was an ado about conflict between Valerie and I that ended up in the press. A post of mine here was the cause of it,’ he added. 

‘I regret having posted it. I wish I hadn’t. The issue addressed was real. My post made it worse rather than better,’ he insisted.

He said that they, ‘had a complicated relationship,’ and that while their, ‘time as a couple ended months ago but our close contact only really ended recently. So, it is more ‘fresh’ than it would seem.’

‘In trying to be a couple, an endless number of things got in the way. Almost all of them were “external,”‘ he added.

Goodnough explayed the ‘external’ factors were, ‘things outside of our relationship per se which nonetheless 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 said of his son from his first wife, born in 2007.

‘As a result, the dissolution of our relationship and way it played out has been by far the most painful experience of my life,’ Goodnough insisted. 

‘Writing this post makes me absolutely miserable But it feels like something I have to do,’ Goodnough began

‘A couple weeks ago, there was an ado about conflict between Valerie and I that ended up in the press. A post of mine here was the cause of it,’ he added

‘I regret having posted it. I wish I hadn’t. The issue addressed was real. My post made it worse rather than better,’ he insisted

‘As a result, the dissolution of our relationship and way it played out has been by far the most painful experience of my life,’ Goodnough insisted

‘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 added.

‘Over the last few months, I had hoped we’d find a way to a gentle parting rather than a closed door but couldn’t seem to get us to one. I reached out again this week in that hope. No answer is an answer though. I accept it,’ he said.

He added, ‘With that said, this chapter is now closed for me. I won’t have anything more to say about it – and nothing I have to say will be about it.’

‘I’ve cried about this enough. It’s time to move on. [sorry to turn off comments but they will only make it worse],’ he concluded.