Their relationship figured prominently in her new book, "Enough Already: Learning to Love the Way I Am Today."Bertinelli said during a recent appearance on "Today" that she and Van Halen, who were married from 1981 to 2007, had a great deal of love but also "went through a lot of hell as well.""We weren't really good to each other at a lot of points in our lives because we met so young and were very immature," she said.
"But I'm so happy that we were able to come to a beautiful place by the end of his life.
I wish he was still here."
The pair went on to marry others, but Bertinelli writes in her book, "The love we have always had for each other proved stronger and more resilient than anything else.