Losing It: And Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time is the best-selling autobiography of actress Valerie Bertinelli

Valerie Bertinelli

Valerie Anne Bertinelli is an American actress, best known for her roles as Barbara Cooper Royer on the television series One Day at a Time , Gloria on the television series Touched by an Angel and Melanie Moretti on the sitcom Hot in Cleveland .- Early years :Bertinelli was born in Wilmington,...

 released on February 25, 2008, by Free Press

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In the memoir, Bertinelli confesses to cocaine use and infidelity. She also writes about her relationship with film director

Film director

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 Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg

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 and marriage to rock star Eddie Van Halen

Eddie Van Halen

Edward Lodewijk "Eddie" Van Halen is a Dutch-American guitarist, keyboardist, songwriter and producer, best known as the lead guitarist and co-founder of the hard rock band Van Halen, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...

. In addition to revealing her past indiscretions, the autobiography focuses on how she became clean, lost weight, and conquered her other personal demons.

Bertinelli promoted the book with an hour on The Oprah Winfrey Show

The Oprah Winfrey Show

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. Losing It spent three weeks at #1 on the adult non-fiction

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