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Gigi Crane, a magazine writer, starts hanging out with Valerie to get a story about L. A's cool people. Valerie meets and befriends Rob Andrews , a young and new rising actor in Hollywood.

Rob asks Valerie's advice on a movie script while a mutual attraction between them develops. Rob's new movie is released which earns great recognition for his performance, but bad reviews for the whole movie, which makes Rob wonder if the movie business is really for him, and Valerie worries that she'll lose Rob when he tells her that he wants to quit the entertainment business and move back to his hometown.

After Brandon breaks up with Tracy, Valerie's meddling jeopardizes his future with Kelly when Val sends Kelly a phony letter from the departed Dylan to test her true feelings for Brandon. Both Valerie and Kelly sneak a look at each other's journal, but only Valerie reads the whole thing and spreads rumors about Kelly to Clare and Donna in yet another attempt to make Kelly's life miserable.

Brandon attempts to nurse a flu-stricken Kelly and Valerie back to health, who relive to each other how they became hard-core enemies two years ago which involved both of them pursuing Brandon. At the end, Valerie secretly meets with a certain Derrick Driscoll, who works for Kelly's father, to ask about a possible investment plan.

Valerie makes a pass at David as part of her latest scheme to get him to buy her share of the Peach Pit After Dark as part of a nefarious plan of hers to invest the cash in Kelly's father's business. Kelly's father, Bill, arrives in town for another visit and meets with Valerie who tells her that Derrick Driscoll is actually an embezzler who just ripped off all her money that she got to invest in.

On the day before commencement, Kelly becomes determined to oust Valerie from the Walsh house and out of town and pressures Brandon to do so. Valerie hears about that and decides to write a note saying goodbye to Brandon before she kills herself. On the day of graduation, a broke and lonely Valerie disrupts Kelly's plans when she takes off on a mindless spree, causing Brandon to delay the ceremony to look for her.

Kelly's father, Bill, throws a post-graduation 's nostalgic party for the class and has the music group, After Steve and Clare broke up, Valerie and Steve hook up with each other. Donna lands a job as a modeling assistant and flies to Hawaii for the photo shoot and the rest of the gang, whom include David, Brandon, Valerie, and Steve follow her there for an end-of-the summer vacation, where Valerie meets and becomes smitten with a mysterious sailor named Noah Hunter who tries to help Donna when the shoot goes bad.

After spending a torrid night with Valerie, Noah makes a quick exit and refuses to associate with her again. Valerie offers to help Donna with her job to land more clients. Valerie continues pursuing Noah who eventually tells her all about his lonely life and unwillingness to keep a relationship, while Valerie meets a wealthy heir named Cooper Hargrove.

Valerie turns on her deviousness again when she begins stealing Donna's design clients for her own use and in the process lands in a quandary over being with Donna's new client, Cooper Hargrove , and Noah who wants to go back to Hawaii for a job.

Donna finally learns of Valerie's back-stabbing. So in retaliation, Donna successfully gets revenge against Valerie when she sets Cooper and Valerie up on a dinner date to a fancy new restaurant where Noah also shows up after Donna anonymously sends him a message to meet Valerie there.

Steve continues to pursue Carly and asks her to a formal Autumn banquet, where Valerie's two suitors, Cooper and Noah, finally cross paths when they meet each other face-to-face for the first time and neither enjoys it prompting both Cooper and Noah to break up with her.

After breaking up with Valerie, an angry and frustrated Noah lands in jail after a drunken barroom brawl. Valerie seeks to learn who anonymously helped David pay off his loan shark and learns the truth about Noah and his wealthy background.

Valerie schemes with David to make Noah and Donna jealous by making it seem that they are having an affair, but it doesn't work due to David's lack of lying skills. In the week before Christmas, and at David's urging, a depressed Ben delivers gifts to his parents, and later he and Valerie help Ben out who's contemplating suicide.

David finally admits to Donna about his relationship with Valerie being a farce, but that soon changes when Valerie admits getting feelings for him again. Valerie then has a run-in with Duke, Brandon's former bookmaker, whom she tells to stay away from the Peach Pit After Dark, until he offers her a cut of his winnings.

The greedy Valerie ignores Noah's decree to halt the betting at the After Dark, with serious consequences when they both get arrested after the police raid the place. Valerie, who is serving community service for her bookmaking, turns on her deviousness again when she is determined not to let Brandon and Kelly get back together by interfering with Brandon's phone messages.

Valerie, still working through her community service at the clinic, continues her plan to keep Brandon and Kelly apart when she sets up a scene at a restaurant so that Brandon will walk into Kelly with her date Jeff. Valerie brings in a record executive to the After Dark to hear David and the band, Jasper's Law, perform at their debut.

But Valerie becomes hurt after David tells her that the love song he wrote was about Donna, not her. The arrival of Noah's snobbish, older half-brother, Josh, brings big trouble between both of them over their different viewpoints. Things take an unexpected turn when Josh spikes Valerie's drink with a "date rape" drug so he can seduce her.

But it goes wrong for Josh when Noah inadvertently takes advantage of Valerie who wakes up the next morning thinking Noah slipped her the roofie. Thus, Valerie unknowingly tells everyone that Noah did rape her. After Noah is questioned by the police about Valerie's rape charges, he admits to Donna that he did have sex with Valerie that night at the After Dark club, but he did not know that she was drugged. The only ones that believe Valerie's date rape story are David and Brandon which divides them from their friends.

Josh also takes advantage of Valerie and Noah's conflict to play them against each other and persuades Valerie to press a civil suit against Noah. Valerie's civil lawsuit against Noah begins with her taking the witness stand testifying about that night.

But Noah's attorney viciously cross-examines her by making use of Valerie's sordid past to discredit her. Then Brandon, Kelly, David, and Steve individually take the witness stand and testify against Valerie, despite her attorney who tries to put reasonable doubt on them.

But the final nail is when Noah's defense receives a mortal blow when the real culprit, Josh, unexpectedly takes the witness stand and testifies against Noah with details about "his" version of what happened the Valentine's Day night with Valerie at the After Dark.

Valerie struggles to get past her incident with Noah. Valerie deals with her long-estranged mother, Abby, who arrives back in town for a visit and hits it off with Kelly's father, Bill, who has been paroled from prison. Valerie and Kelly reluctantly join forces in an attempt to keep apart Valerie's mother Abby, and Kelly's father Bill, after they announce their engagement at Valerie's birthday party. Valerie creates problems between Noah and Donna when she claims that the expensive diamond necklace that Noah gave Donna is a fake.

Valerie also hooks David up with a filmmaker, named Kyle Scott, who is wanting to do a commercial with him as she handles his taxes. Valerie creates a new persona for herself and David in order to fit in at the reunion. David also buys some things from the sex shop to revamp his sluggish sex life with Valerie. Valerie is asked by a doctor to be a bone-marrow donor for an ailing leukemia patient. Valerie is delighted with the idea, but she soon goes back on her deal when she finds out that the patient has sexually abused his teenage daughter.

Noah's close friend, Gwyneth, turns to Valerie for a little help to break up Donna and Noah by sabotaging her fashion show at the After Dark. Noah finds out about this and is angry with Valerie. But Valerie is reluctant to do so and provokes conflicts with everyone, except David whom she still has feelings for. With a few hours before Brandon and Kelly's wedding, they still become uncertain about this path in life they will take.

Valerie finally decides to get an AIDS test after Johnny confesses to her that he happens to be HIV-positive, and she asks David to come along with her for emotional support. David says Valerie would benefit from a kinder, gentler demeanor after her HIV test comes back negative, seeing as how she has a new lease on life. Valerie decides to be more honest, but when she encourages David to demand his worth by graduating from doing commercial jingles to getting a shot at a music score for Glen King, David goes along with it David also notes that Valerie's rude truth-telling towards Steve, Brandon and Nat has the same goal as her previous lying: to push people away.

Valerie tells David she doesn't deserve to be happy, and later reveals to him that she killed her father. When Valerie finally tells her mother about the history of her father molesting her, Abby shocks Valerie by saying that she already knew and didn't take any action because he'd promised falsely he would stop and get help.

Abby also implies rather strongly that Valerie was not a victim but a willing partner in her father's depravities. Kelly accompanies Abby to her and Carl's wedding in Las Vegas, where maid of honor Valerie decides to make the moves on Carl to upset her mother's plans. After Carl leaves Valerie's and Kelly's hotel room, Kelly walks in to see Valerie covering herself with the sheets and instantly knows that Valerie and Carl slept together. She is disgusted at the wedding, as is Valerie, but neither of them reveal the secret to Abby.

Noah turns to Valerie instead of Donna for help after he is arrested for drunk driving, and a young lawyer, named Matt Durning, approaches him for representation for free of charge since Noah and his entire family is now broke from Noah's late father's dirty business dealings. Valerie's so-called "mistake" about seducing Carl in Las Vegas comes out when she comes clean to her mother, who then threatens to turn her in for killing her father.

Carl has broken up with Abby and tries to tell Valerie that he did it so they could be together, but she tells him she has zero interest in ever spending any time with him again.

Valerie hires Matt for help in representation because she isn't sure if her mother will follow through on the threat to turn her in for killing her father. Noah takes a lonely Valerie on a tour of bad memories between both of them over the suicide of their unscrupulous, white-collared, criminal fathers.

Abby tells Valerie she won't turn her in, but Valerie's relief turns to horror and sadness when Abby says she doesn't forgive her daughter at all and would like to see her arrested, but can't deal with the embarrassment of what happened and will thus keep it secret. Valerie angrily tells Abby that her father raped her repeatedly and that she cannot get over it when Abby still feels like it was her fault and something for Valerie to bear the secret blame for.

With Brandon gone, Valerie plans her own farewell party after deciding to turn herself over to the police for setting up her father's long-ago murder. Noah continues on his self-destructive path and pushes Donna away when he sees her talking to Matt, and anyone who offers him support, except Valerie whom he challenges to a dangerous road game of chicken.

After David talks to her off-screen, Abby shows up at the police station where Valerie has gone to surrender and finally tells Valerie that it was Abby's fault for what Mr. Malone did, none of it was Valerie's, and that Abby forgives her daughter and begs her to forgive herself. After Kelly finds a letter written by Valerie to Brandon saying that Brandon shouldn't marry Kelly, she is furious again at her longtime bete noir and the rest of the group is disgusted with Valerie.

Donna bluntly tells her that Brandon always fixed her messes and now that he's gone, Valerie has two choices: grow up or find new friends. Kelly hijacks Valerie's plans to host Thanksgiving, and David who is not happy with her actions but understands them tells a stunned Kelly about Valerie's history of being molested by her father before she killed him in self-defence.

Kelly is then sympathetic to Valerie and they eventually host a group Thanksgiving at Casa Walsh. Valerie tells the group she's going to move back to Buffalo and heads off to the airport when their dinner is completed. Valerie returns to Beverly Hills to attend Donna and David's wedding. Instead of being on the receiving end of gifts this year, she really wanted to give back to those who need it the most.

And she has a special gift for fans too. A future episode will see Bertinelli reunite with her small-screen sibling Phillips for a special vegetarian-themed episode. As she reflects on the past and how far she's come, Bertinelli can't help but see parallels between her life and that of the character that completely changed her life.

She would most likely still be married to Mark, maybe with some grandkids…and maybe even her own cooking show on Food Network! Valerie Bertinelli explains why she hasn't guest-starred on the One Day at a Time reboot yet. Save FB Tweet More. Credit: Everett Collection. One Day at a Time Close this dialog window Streaming Options. Valerie's Home Cook. One Day at a Time pays homage to original Schneider in season 2 gag One Day at a Time takes swipe at Netflix in season premiere — watch the first 90 seconds One Day at a Time deserved way more Emmys love than its one nomination.

View All. All rights reserved. Close this dialog window View image Valerie Bertinelli explains why she hasn't guest-starred on the One Day at a Time reboot yet. I had one day off and I was flying in the night before and I had to start my show Bertinelli now hosts "Valerie's Home Cooking" on the Food Network the next day and I think it was just too much. I don't just want to go in and do just one day.

Plus, she acknowledged, she might be a little out of practice. And I want to be able to really be there with them and soak it all in. Maybe after this quarantine is all over, I'll still be able to do something with them.

I really love all those great people behind the show. What they've done is really amazing. I want to do it so bad! They all lived in an apartment, and were frequently visited by the eccentric superintendent Schneider Pat Harrington.

She was just 15 when the show first aired.