Van Halen, whose father was an alcoholic, started smoking at just 12 years of age.
His first marriage, to actress,Valerie Bertinelli,unraveled in 2001.
It broke partly under the weight of Van Halen’s drug and alcohol addiction.
After their divorce, Bertinelli remembered their marriage in amemoir.
“It doesn’t really bode well for the marriage, I don’t think.
Van Halen’s second marriage started off on radically different footing.
Around the time that Van Halen proposed to Janie in 2008 (in Hawaii, where else?
), Van Halen gave up drugs and alcohol for good.
But after her husband’s death in October, she opened up in a rareInstagram post.
“My heart and soul have been shattered into a million pieces,” she wrote.
Her husband was not the first or the last loved one that Liszewski lost in 2020.
In June, her brother Tom died (viaInstagram).
Then, in November, so did her mother (viaInstagram).
She was my rock & support thru the toughest of times.”
Her online footprint is full ofDJ duties,morning hikes, and herPomeranian puppy.
She clearly loves Pomeranians.
We also know that Janie Liszewski’s first concert was not a Van Halen concert.
She went to listen toDiana Ross(viaInstagram).
Finally, Liszewski cooks andposts picturesof Boston cream cupcakes that make us want to be her best friend.
Beyond that, it’s hard to know exactly who Liszewski is.
There’s a reason for her silence.
Early in her and Van Halen’s relationship, Liszewski shifted career tracks.
In 2007, she stopped working PR for the adult film industry.
Instead, she began exclusively representing her future husband’s band (viaVan Halen News Desk).
“Obviously this is a dream come true in many capacities,” Liszewski purportedly said at the time.
She describes her current job as “an adventure unlike any other” (viaInstagram).
One of her and her partner’s signature moves (no surprises there) is taken directly from pro-wrestling.
But Liszewski’s favorite dance shows off her softer side.
Clearly not someone to be confined to one profession, Liszewski’s also tried her hands at acting.
Did you know Janie Liszewski used to train at the same gym as Hulk Hogan?
At least Liszewski claims she did onYoutube.
They’ve worked closely together on both ballroom dancing and wrestling, since.
Louie’s favorite ballroom dance is the Rumba, btw.
Liszewski, herself, has spent years in and out of the doctor’s office.
In 2019, the ballroom dancer wrote onInstagramthat doctors had been monitoring abnormal nodules in her thyroid for years.
“I was finally cleared and told they have not grown/changed and are not cancerous.
I am so relieved and grateful,” she wrote.
In 2021 Liszewski went through another scare, this time related to her breasts.
It took her two tries to get through the biopsy.
