Valerie Bertinelli Talks About Her Latest 'Sex Dream' with Drew Barrymore

Chiara KimTue, March 24, 2026 at 3:33 PM UTC

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Valerie Bertinelli and Drew Barrymore talked about their recent experiences with erotic dreams

Bertinelli shared that it was “not too long ago” that she had a sex dream

The star recently talked with PEOPLE about a moment that lit her “pilot light” and made her happy to know she’s not “dead inside”

Valerie Bertinelli is speaking on intimate dreams.

On the Tuesday, March 24 episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, Bertinelli and Drew Barrymore discussed their recent (or not-so-recent, for one) sex dreams.

After introducing the topic with a 2025 TIME article about what sex dreams actually mean, Barrymore asked Bertinelli, who is a lifestyle expert in the "Drew Crew," when she last had a sex dream.

“Not too long ago,” Bertinelli said, admitting to Barrymore's "Drew's News" co-host Ross Matthews that the dream was about someone she knows.

Bertinelli asked Barrymore whether she’s had a sex dream where she climaxed.

“Thank you for going there,” Matthews said.

“I mean when I was younger, yes, absolutely,” Barrymore replied.

“That’s the good one,” Bertinelli said.

Barrymore said she doesn’t think that experience is “exclusive to men,” and Bertinelli agreed.

Bertinelli and Barrymore on The Drew Barrymore ShowCredit: CBS

Matthews joked about how Bertinelli can sit in front of “so many people, and like, climax." Barrymore spit out her drink, and Bertinelli laughed with her hands clasped in front of her face.

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Barrymore also shared that it has been “years” since her last erotic dream.

“This brain ain’t workin’,” she said. “I don’t know what is going on. I feel like I used to have really sexy dreams and wake up really turned on, and it’s just, it’s gone, it’s not there.”

“Even the men in your dreams are ghosting you,” Matthews joked. “100%,” Barrymore replied.

Bertinelli told PEOPLE recently that being single is something she and Barrymore discuss frequently.

"We’re very happy being single," Bertinelli shared. She added that she hasn’t been on many dates as she’s learning how to “differentiate” between “butterflies” and anxiety when dating.

“I’m not ruling [dating] out,” she said. “There’s so many great men out there. I love men but I don’t want them to make me crazy and I don’t want to make them crazy.”

She shared in her book a moment when her “pilot light” was lit while watching Metallica’s James Hetfield on stage.

“It was so nice to know that I’m not dead inside,” she said, laughing. She continued that after her second divorce from Tom Vitale in 2022, she was content with being a “cat lady” and watching her son, Wolfgang Van Halen, tour as a musician.

“But when I got my little pilot light lit by watching someone on stage be magnetic, I was like 'Wait, did I just say someone was hot?,’” she said.

"Even though I don’t want to date this person, I liked that I found somebody attractive because it meant I wasn’t dead inside,” she said. “Love when it’s right can be magical. And one day, I might get that. But I also have to be okay with not getting it."

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