“I hope they never do one of Van Halen. I told Wolfie, ‘Make sure I’m dead’”: Eddie Van Halen's former wife, Valerie Bertinelli, rules out Van Halen biopic

Eddie Van Halen of the rock group Van Halen stands with his wife Valerie Bertinelli February 18, 1995 in New York City. Van Halen donated his guitar to vice president Eric Crisman to be displayed at the Hard Rock Cafe.

With Bob Dylan's biopic A Complete Unknown becoming a film critics' darling, and The Beatles' four-movie biopic officially confirmed – not to mention pop star Lizzo locked in to star as Sister Rosetta Tharpe – it's no secret that biopics have become a lucrative way to sustain an artist's legacy. However, it's the one thing Eddie Van Halen's former wife, Valerie Bertinelli, doesn't want to happen – at least not until after she's dead.

“Oh god, I hope they never do one of Van Halen,” Bertinelli said on Monday's episode of The Drew Barrymore Show [as reported by Entertainment Weekly]. “Make sure I’m dead. I told Wolfie [son Wolfgang Van Halen], ‘Make sure I’m dead,’” to which Barrymore responded, “Oh, you know they’re gonna do one of Van Halen.”