I was like, okay, I got to take care of this shame because it's not doing me any good.

Welcome back to where everybody knows your name.

Today I'm talking to Valerie Bertinelli. She's an actor and TV host that

we've all loved watching over the years from one day at a time to Hot in Cleveland to her shows

on the Food Network. Valerie stars in the upcoming lifetime movie Love Again airing May 9th. She has a book, too, called Getting Naked, The Quiet

Work of Becoming Perfectly Imperfect. It's available for purchase now. She is wise and full of depth,

and I had the best time talking to her. So let's get to her. Here's Valerie Bertinelli.

As we said earlier, we've never met each other. How is that possible? Yeah.

Because you've been doing this how many decades?

Well, did some movies and stuff before him, but Shears started in 82.

Yeah.

God, one day of time was still on when Shears came on?

Yeah.

That's, I don't remember that.

Yeah.

That's crazy.

Norman Lear?

Norman. Your mentor.

Yes, I was very lucky that I was able to be that young in a business that harsh, which also has its good moments. But I was protected by Norman and Bonnie and Pat and everybody there. Yeah. So that was really nice. But that's crazy. I know. I know. It really is. Well, so a lot. Wait, what year was that? Tell me. 75 that we premiered. Yeah, so it's been 50 years. I love somebody sizably younger than me has a sizably longer career than I do. Sysibly, no. Yeah, yeah. No. How old are you? 78. Oh, okay. Yeah, 65. I'll be 66.

That's sizable.

It's not sizable. It's 13 years. Yeah. It's a generation. Yeah, we wouldn't have gone to the same high school. I kind of put that. Well, my first husband was five years older than me, and I never thought that was odd. So five isn't that much. but there will be many similarities

and things, you know, shared experiences.

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