{"id":2931,"date":"2025-10-03T16:21:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T16:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/?p=2931"},"modified":"2025-10-03T16:21:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T16:21:36","slug":"her-message-to-fans-is-heartbreaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/?p=2931","title":{"rendered":"Her Message to Fans Is Heartbreaking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Valerie Bertinelli has always been open with her fans about life\u2019s highs and lows \u2014 but this week she shared one of her scariest confessions yet: she tested positive for <strong>COVID-19 (again)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 63-year-old actress announced it on social media, saying her throat first felt scratchy and she assumed it was allergies. But when fatigue hit and she ran a fever, she took a test and\u2026 <em>positive<\/em>. She made it clear she\u2019s been vaccinated and boosted, but still caught the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs much as I take precautions, life happens,\u201d Valerie said. \u201cI felt awful for two days. My body ached. I got scared \u2014 especially with breathing hard and feeling so weak.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She went on to issue a heartfelt plea:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t assume you\u2019re invincible. COVID is still here, still dangerous. If you see symptoms, get tested. Don\u2019t wait. Protect the people you love.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Valerie said she\u2019s been isolating at home, resting, drinking fluids, and only leaving her bed to care for her cat. She\u2019s also checked in with her doctors and is monitoring her breathing closely, knowing how important it is not to take it lightly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her message was simple but powerful \u2014 and heartbreaking: a reminder that COVID still affects us all, even those who are public, well-known, and careful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valerie Bertinelli has always been open with her fans about life\u2019s highs and lows \u2014 but this week she shared one of her scariest confessions yet: she&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2932,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931\/revisions\/2932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsbreeze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}