Valerie Bertinelli got candid about the “loud absence” of her late ex-husband, Eddie Van Halen, nearly five years after he died of throat cancer.

“Some days I really do miss you,” the “One Day at a Time” alum shared via Instagram Thursday, alongside a throwback photo with the musician.

“There will always be a loud absence in these gratifying sideline years. Who do I yap to when there was really only one person I could talk to about Wolfie the way that we did?” she added, referring to their 34-year-old son, Wolfgang Van Halen.

“The pride we both felt. Still feel. I’m grateful for where we landed,” Bertinelli, 65, continued. “Through the ups and the downs to still alight where we did is a blessing.”

The actress gushed over her son’s career as a musician, saying, “You’d be so proud of W

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