Billy Joelex-wife Elizabeth Weber opens on the place where she is with the famous singer after their famous affair and their marriage almost decade.
“If I want to talk to him or if I have something to say, I’m able to contact him whenever I want,” said Weber exclusively US Weekly Friday August 8. “But he has a woman and he has children and at the moment, he has trouble with something that is … it’s a great thing.”
In May, Joel, 76, canceled the remaining dates of his tour in 2025 after revealing that he had been diagnosed with a hydrocephalus of normal pressure, a brain condition in which an abnormal quantity of cerebrospinal fluid is strengthening, causing problems of walking, memory, balance and bladder.
“SO, [our relationship] is as close as possible for two people who decided to divorce 40 years ago, “continued Weber, adding that” of course “she reaches out to her ex in the middle of her health diagnosis.
Weber met Joel for the first time when she was married to her best friend and former group companion, Jon Small. The pair embarked on a later case, which led the band to break and Joel fighting against a serious depression which included two suicide attempts. (The case and its consequences were discussed in the HBO documentary in two parts Billy Joel: And that’s okaywhich was created in July.)
The couple reconnected later after the Weber divorce and married in 1973, continuing to spend almost 10 years together before finishing their marriage in 1982. Joel continued to get married Christie Brinkley In 1985, a welcoming girl Alexa Ray Joel Before calling him, left in 1994. Joel then married the author of the Cooking Book Katie Lee In 2004 – The pair divorced five years later in 2009. In 2015, Joel married Alex Roderick. The pair shares two children, Rose Joel And Remy Anne Joel.
Billy Joel and his wife Elizabeth Weber around 1981 in New York.
Robin Platzer / Images / Getty ImagesWeber, for his part, shares a son, Sean Weber-SmallWith her first husband.
Speaking with WeWeber said that his son and grandchildren also knew and are even a little close to Joel.
“I have my grandchildren he knows and they know him,” she said. “My granddaughter Ella taught Bill what Tiktok was and showed him what was going on. And his relationship with Sean is important for both. ”
Not only is Billy Joel is the piano man, but he is also a dedicated father. Two years after separating from his first wife, Elizabeth Weber, Joel made the knot with actress and model Christie Brinkley in 1985. That same year, the duo became parents with the birth of their daughter, Alexa. Joel and Brinkley […]
She added: “So we are not distant but we are, you know, and he lives in Florida and I live in California. But everything is fine. “
Weber said his son Sean and Joel were “very close”, adding that during their marriage, the three “lived at the top of the mountain”.
“We were entertained,” she said. “Bill and I worked all day and the whole writing process has never been done – in the years that Bill and I were together – were never finished from a distance or in [a] studio. It happened in our living room, and Sean was an integral part. »»
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