Valerie Bertinellis ex Mike Goodnough slams her backhanded swipes on social media: Shes playing a one-woman tennis match
Valerie Bertinelli’s ex-boyfriend is speaking out.Mike Goodnough, 54, took to Instagram on Tuesday to respond to theories that he and the celebrity chef, 64, were sending subliminal messages back and forth through Instagram posts. “The message common to all of them is that Valerie and I appear to be communicating with each other via our Instagram posts and stories,” Goodnough wrote on the platform.“That is not the case.
I have never at any time posted something on social media for the purposes of communicating with someone indirectly when I know them personally and have ample ways to reach them directly.”The writer added he has “never at any time posted something for the purpose of getting a message to someone or getting reaction out of someone.I’ve never posted something in an effort to impact someone’s feelings about me privately or to influence others’ opinions of them publicly.”Goodnough noted he is an adult who is “very capable of communicating openly and directly with people I know and care about.”Bertinelli and Goodnough dated for 10 months, and despite no longer being together, he still cares for his former flame.“Exactly one year ago, Valerie and I were together for the launch of her book.
It was one of the most joyful weeks of my life.Taking true deep joy from Valerie’s happiness and success was the easiest thing in the world.
It is no harder now,” Goodnough reflected about Bertinelli and her cookbook “Indulge.”“Our relationship as partners ended.My caring about her did not,” he said.
These days, however, it appears the exes aren’t on the best terms.“Unfortunately, over the past two months, Valerie has been prone to lapsing into a place where she has been playing a one-woman tennis match thinking there is someone on the other side of the net,” he continued.“When in that place, she reads all of my posts, centers herself in them, takes offense over wholly imagined slights, and then lashes out angrily wit...