Billy Joel tried suicide twice after affair along with his finest buddy’s spouse
Billy Joel has revealed that he tried to take his personal life twice after having an affair along with his finest buddy’s spouse.
The singer-songwriter spoke concerning the ordeal in his new two-part documentary Billy Joel: And So It Goes, which premiered earlier this week and is about to air on HBO this summer season.
As reported by People, the documentary sees Joel recount the truth that within the early Nineteen Seventies, whereas he was within the arduous rock band Attila alongside his finest buddy on the time Jon Small, he developed a romantic relationship with Small’s spouse Elizabeth Weber.
“I felt very, very responsible about it,” Joel stated within the doc. “They’d a toddler. I felt like a homewrecker. I used to be simply in love with a lady, and I bought punched within the nostril, which I deserved. Jon was very upset. I used to be very upset.”
Attila quickly cut up up and Joel, who had been dwelling with Small and Weber, discovered himself homeless. “I had no place to stay,” he continued. “I used to be sleeping in laundromats and I used to be depressed, I feel to the purpose of just about being psychotic. So I figured, ‘That’s it. I don’t wish to stay anymore.’ I used to be simply in lots of ache, and it was kind of like, ‘Why hang around? Tomorrow goes to be similar to right now is and right now sucks.’ So, I simply thought I’d finish all of it.”
He recalled that his sister Judy, a medical employee, had given him tablets to assist him sleep on the time and in the future he “determined that he was going to take all of them”.
“He was in a coma for days and days and days,” Judy stated within the documentary. “I went to go see him within the hospital, and he was mendacity there white as a sheet. I assumed that I’d killed him.”
Joel stated he vowed to do it “proper” the second time, revealing that he drank a complete bottle of the cleansing product Lemon Pledge. It was Small that took him to the hospital. “Though our friendship was blowing up, Jon saved my life,” Joel stated.
Small added within the documentary: “He by no means actually stated something to me, the one sensible reply I can provide as to why Billy took it so arduous was as a result of he liked me that a lot and that it killed him to harm me that a lot. Ultimately I forgave him.”
Joel stated he then entered himself into an remark ward for quite a few weeks. “I bought out of the remark ward, and I assumed to myself, you’ll be able to make the most of all these feelings to channel that stuff into music,” he stated.
The documentary premiered on the Tribeca Movie Competition on June 4, however Joel was not current on account of his present well being struggles.
On the finish of Might, he was identified with the mind dysfunction regular strain hydrocephalus (NPH). He has subsequently cancelled all of his upcoming tour dates, and his daughter Alexa Ray has shared that he’s “totally dedicated to creating a full restoration with ongoing physical-therapy therapies as he continues to regain his energy”.
Joel has insisted “I’m not dying”, along with his buddy Howard Stern not too long ago saying: “He’s doing tremendous. He does have points, however he stated, ‘Yeah, you’ll be able to inform individuals: I’m not dying’. You already know, he desires individuals to know that.”