Valerie Bertinelli isn’t able to see Van Halen to make the soar (soar!) to the large display screen anytime quickly.

The One Day at a Time actress, who was married to late guitarist Eddie Van Halen for twenty years, revealed on Monday’s episode of The Drew Barrymore Show that she has already notified their Wolfgang Van Halen that he can’t launch a biopic concerning the band till after her dying.

The revelation got here up throughout a dialog with host Drew Barrymore about Sam Mendes’ upcoming Beatles biopics, which will likely be launched in 4 separate installments specializing in every of the person members in April 2028. “Oh god, I hope they by no means do one in all Van Halen,” Bertinelli confessed. “Be sure I’m useless. I informed Wolfie, ‘Be sure I’m useless.’”

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Host Drew Barrymore instantly quipped again, “Oh you know they’re gonna do one in all Van Halen.”

The 50 First Dates actress then requested Bertinelli who she’d choose to play herself within the biopic. “Oh… Selena Gomez. She could be superb,” Bertinelli replied. She then rapidly added, “However Selena, don’t do it! Please don’t do it!”

Barrymore was totally on board with Bertinelli’s dream casting, earlier than noting that they'd simply need to “determine it out collectively” when the biopic is inevitably launched. “I’ll be useless,” Bertinelli teased, to which the host adamantly responded, “No you received’t!”

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Earlier of their dialog, Bertinelli opened up about being in comparison with Yoko Ono — John Lennon’s second spouse who, to today, many Beatles followers unjustly declare is answerable for breaking apart the band — whereas married to Van Halen.

When Barrymore expressed her confusion over the pair's connection, Bertinelli replied, “Oh you didn’t know that I broke up Van Halen?” Via her laughter, she added, “As if I had the ability to interrupt up a band.”

The comparability, nonetheless, by no means introduced her down. “I wore it proudly,” Bertinelli stated. “Yoko is a tremendous girl. She’s an artist. And she or he didn’t break up the Beatles. The Beatles had their very own points.”

And, similar to these Liverpool lads, Bertinelli famous that Van Halen “positively had their very own points,” too.

“And it wasn’t all Ed’s fault, okay? I’m simply gonna put that on the market,” she clarified. “Everyone likes to blame Ed and he can’t defend himself — nowhere close to was all of it Ed’s fault, he was a quiet… he simply wished to jot down his music and play his music.” (Eddie, a Grammy-winning rocker and Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame inductee, died of most cancers at 65 in 2020.)

Van Halen's members have at all times had strenuous relationships with each other — and that hasn't modified even after the band formally disbanded following Eddie's dying. Simply final yr, frontman David Lee Roth laid into Wolfgang Van Halen in an expletive-ridden rant by which he claimed that the 34-year-old earned his place within the band by means of nepotism.

Wolfgang responded to Roth's claims in a subsequent interview, explaining that he was "born into this Van Halen drama" and hasn't been capable of shake it but. He added, “I suppose now that my dad isn’t right here to be a goal, I suppose he went to the following smartest thing."

Drummer Alex Van Halen additionally revealed final yr {that a} proposed reunion tour was cancelled after Roth refused to pay tribute to Eddie.

The Drew Barrymore Present airs weekdays on CBS.