Valerie Bertinelli's 'emotionally excruciating' year had star struggling to get out of bed

Valerie Bertinelli is reflecting on her painful past. 

On Friday, the "One Day at a Time" star, 65, took to social media to detail an "emotionally excruciating" eight months of internal struggles and share the lessons she's learned along the way.

"I go back and forth and hesitate sharing vulnerable posts like I so often used to because I put the useless opinions of the minimal creepers above the many of you who have made this page so special," she began her lengthy Instagram post....