Valerie Bertinelli Surprised With Emotional Reunion with Hot in Cleveland Co-Stars

It’s a Hot in Cleveland reunion!

In a preview clip of the Monday, Sept. 22, episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, Valerie Bertinelli — who starred on the TV Land sitcom from 2010 to 2015 — is asked about her experience on the show before getting an emotional surprise from her former co-stars Wendie Malick and Jane Leeves.

In the clip, Bertinelli, 65, says the show was “hands down, my favorite experience in my working life,” adding, “to work with those three women that I got to work with — and there was not a diva on the set.”

“We’d hang out in the morning and just talk before rehearsing,” she added.

At that, Barrymore said, “Well, then, without further ado, Jane Leeves and Wendie Malick,” before the two actresses appeared from behind a curtain and entered the stage.

In addition to Malick, Leeves and Bertinelli, the show also starred the late Betty White, who died at the age of 99 on Dec. 31, 2021, less than a month before what would have been her 100th birthday.

In a clip of The Drew Barrymore Show shared on Monday, Aug. 4, Bertinelli was asked about the best advice she was given by any of her co-stars.

“The best piece of advice is from Betty White,” Bertinell said. “She really taught me about gratitude. I thought I was grateful. She was just living, breathing gratitude, every second of her life, every moment I was around her.”

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Bertinelli went on, “She was grateful for the good, the bad, the ugly, all of it. And I have learned through going through really challenging things of the past five years, I’m grateful for the hard stuff. It’s sucked, and I wish I didn’t have to go through it, but there was no other way for me to learn a better way. And I think mistakes are there purposefully to help us learn what not to do.”

The One Day at a Time star concluded, “So, gratitude for sure. Every moment, I’m grateful for. Even the hard stuff. Especially the hard stuff. That’s Betty White.”