Billy Joel Sharing frank details on difficult moments in his young years in a new documentary.
The new documentary, Billy Joel: And it’s okay, Wednesday, June 4, showed at the Tribeca festival in New York on Wednesday June 4 showed that the singer was opening one of her lowest points, reported People Thursday, June 5.
According to The Outlet, Joel, 76, shared details on the way he fell “in love” Elizabeth Weber, the woman then Jon Small, at the beginning of the twenty. Small was Joel’s best friend and group comrade at the time, and Joel moved with the couple and their son at the time.
Weber appeared in the documentary, noting that she and Joel spent a lot of time together before taking a wind from the case. It led to Joel Advantage Petit: “I am in love with your wife.” (Weber and Joel then rekindled their romance and married 1973 to 1982.)
“I felt very, very guilty about it. They had a child. I felt like a creator,” said Joel in the documentary. “I was just in love with a woman and I was struck in the nose that I deserved. Jon was very upset. I was very upset. ”
The affair made Joel and Small the group separate and with their friendship in tatters, the “man piano” began in a spiral.
“I had no place to live. I slept in the laundries and I was depressed, I think that to the point of being almost psychotic,” he said in the documentary. “So I said to myself,” That’s it. I don’t want to live anymore. I just had a lot of pain and it was a bit like why spending time, tomorrow will be like today and today is zero.
Elizabeth Weber.
(Photo of Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty Images for Tribeca Festival)In Joel’s sister’s documentary, Judy Molinari, Detailed the emotional period when Joel made his first suicide attempt and she thought she was going to lose him.
“He was in a coma for days and days and days,” she said in the documentary. “I went to see him in the hospital, and he was lying there like a sheet.
During the second attempt, it was actually small, which transported Joel to the hospital to get help.
Christie Brinkley remembers having fallen “desperately in love” by Billy Joel in her next memory, Uptown Girl. While describing their first meeting in a motel bar in Dive de St. Barts in 1983, Brinkley, 71, noted Joel, 75, “certainly did not look like a rock star” in People’s except for the book. “The man was burned in the sun to a crisp, […]
“Even if our friendship exploded, Jon saved my life,” said Joel. (Small finally forgiven Joel from the case with Weber.)
After attempts, Joel consulted himself in an “observation district” and the experience helped him get back on the right track.
“I got out of the observation room and I thought you can use all these emotions to channel these stuff in music,” said Joel.
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