Valérie Bertinelli celebrates two years of “freedom” continued her divorce from Tom Vitale.

The Food Network alum, 64, took to social media Friday to share a message of hope with his fans, saying life “does get better” after all.

“I didn’t know how I was going to get through it, but I knew that somehow I would,” the “Hot In Cleveland” alum said. Instagram post read.

“And I did it!” Today is two years of freedom. Two years of going through doubt and doing my best to get to the other side,” Bertinelli wrote, referring to her unhappy marriage to Vitale which finalized in November 2022.

“Two years of knowing that I didn’t deserve to tolerate the intolerable,” she continued. “Two years of working on shame and self-loathing (still working on that partlong tail). Two years of work to find my true self.

Bertinelli credited her most recent boyfriend Mike Goodnough, who she recently dated separated after 10 months of relationshipfor allowing him to “feel love again”.

Bertinelli said she has worked on herself over the past two years by “confronting demons and past trauma” to become the “most authentic” version of herself.

Calling her current chapter “the last,” Bertinelli said she is “learning that until I love and accept myself, my whole self, my dark and light sides, I will never be able to give give someone else the love and emotional vulnerability they need and deserve. »

“You have to give it to yourself first so you can share it. Whoo boy. I’m working on it,” she continued, before thanking her fans and loved ones for being there for her.

“I am grateful for your comments. I am grateful for your compassion,” she wrote. “Most importantly, I want you to know that if you are struggling right now, I have been there and some days I can still be there, but I want you to know that it gets better.”

“I promise. It gets better. Some days will still be hard and challenging, but other days the light will shine brighter and you will feel it. I love you,” the “One Day at a Time” alum added. Time”.

In November 2022, Bertinelli announced that she was “happily divorced” from Vitale.

Bertinelli met the financial planner and entrepreneur — also CEO of e-commerce company Veebow — in 2004 and got engaged in March 2010.

The couple married in January 2011. After a decade together, the “Valerie’s Home Cooking” host filed for legal separation from Vitale in November 2021.

Bertinelli was married to the late Eddie Van Halen from 1981 to 2007. In October 2020, the legendary rocker died of cancer at the age of 65.

The couple had one child together, their son Wolfgang, now 33 years old. Vitale had four of her own children from a previous marriage.