United Kingdom, April 19 -- Mike Goodnough had a "complicated relationship" with Valerie Bertinelli.

The 54-year-old writer split from Food Network star Valerie, 64, in November 2024 after 10 months of dating, and he has now admitted that their breakup was the "by far the most painful experience" he has ever been through.

He wrote on Instagram: "Valerie and I had a complicated relationship. Our time as a couple ended months ago, but our close contact only really ended recently. So, it is more 'fresh' than it would seem.

"In trying to be a couple, an endless number of things got in the way. Almost all of them were "external." They were things outside of our relationship per se which nonetheless interfered.

"The one thing that was never...