Overview
- Bertinelli, speaking on Wednesday’s Where Everybody Knows Your Name podcast, said hotel staff in Brazil blocked her from an upper floor after mistaking her and Valeri Kendall for sex workers.
- She placed the episode in the early 1980s during a Van Halen tour stop, when she was newly married and visiting Eddie and his brother Alex.
- Without cell phones at the time, she said she used a lobby phone to call Eddie to come down and escort them upstairs.
- Us Weekly and Complex reported her remarks after the podcast, and no independent confirmation or hotel response has been published.
- Bertinelli and Eddie Van Halen were married from 1981 to 2001 and share son Wolfgang, context that helps explain the ongoing interest in her recollections.