Valerie Bertinellihas tasted her final kid-created sweet, but she’s trying not to be bitter about it.

“I know that it’s business, budget cuts, right?

It really sucks.”

Valerie Bertinelli on ‘Kids Baking Championship’

Valerie Bertinelli on ‘Kids Baking Championship’.Food Network

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(Off screen, Bertinelli went througha difficult divorce from Tom Vitale.)

“And without sounding like a drama queen, the show saved my life.

It was like a flotation equipment.”

On Sunday, Bertinelliwrote on social mediathat “There were never any talks” about her returning.

I got a text by a third party on Friday that told me I would not be back.

LOL I was basically ghosted."

And I understand business is business.

But I won’t tolerate lies.

I am a lot of things, but I am not greedy, nor am I a liar."

But they have not."

Hosting the show, she said, was “one of the huge joys of my life.”