Valerie Bertinelli is slightly better after a recent injury.
The former Food Network star, 64, shared a photo on social media on Tuesday, October 29, showing a large cut on her right arm – a wound she sustained while working on a top-secret project.
“I would have asked for risk pay, but it was my damn fault. 🥴,” Bertinelli began as the caption of her Instagram post.
She discovered the fresh scar in a mirror selfie taken with a phone camera. The torn skin stretched from below the wrist to above the elbow.
Valerie Bertinelli, October 2024.
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“I’m working on a really fun new project that I can’t wait to tell you about, and this is what happens when you literally trip over the corner of the stage and fall on… in front of the crew. And the whole audience,” she continued.
According to the two-time Golden Globe winner, the accident happened mostly “because I’m a jerk.”
“And embarrassing myself is my bailiwick. 😅”, she concluded.
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Although Bertinelli was unable to reveal details about the project on which the injury occurred, she has another new gig. She joined The Drew Barrymore Show as a regular lifestyle expert.
“I’ll be a part The Drew Barrymore Show. I’m going to be a part of the Drew Crew and I’m really excited about that,” Bertinelli told PEOPLE ahead of the Sept. 9 season five premiere.
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Valerie Bertinelli on The Drew Barrymore Show.
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“I absolutely adore her,” Bertinelli added of Barrymore, 49. “And all the people who work there are so great.”
The cookbook author will join Ross Matthews, Chris Appleton, Zanna Roberts Rassi and others as rotating lifestyle experts on the daytime talk show.
Bertinelli is open and honest on the CBS-owned show.
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During her Sept. 10 debut on the CBS-owned show, Bertinelli said she is “working on” how she views the shame associated with past relationships that failed.
As the ladies chatted during the segment, Barrymore — who has been married three times — asked Bertinelli if she could ever see herself married again.
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Valerie Bertinelli and Mike Goodnough, June 2024.
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The One day at a time the star was married to financial planner Tom Vitale from 2011 to 2022, and to Van Halen frontman Eddie Van Halen from 1981 to 2007.
“Well, I’ve been married twice and the shame thing just slapped me in the face,” Bertinelli said.
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“I think the key is to feel beautiful and feel that you are worthy and that you are enough to let go of a lot of that shame,” she continued. “There’s a lot of good shame, but there’s also bad shame that will keep you in self-loathing and that’s what I’m working on right now.”
In June, Bertinelli made her red carpet debut at the Daytime Emmys with her current boyfriend, Mike Goodnough.
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