{"id":60774,"date":"2025-04-29T17:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T17:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/60774\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T17:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T17:31:09","slug":"christie-brinkley-reveals-when-she-knew-billy-joel-marriage-was-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/60774\/","title":{"rendered":"Christie Brinkley Reveals When She Knew Billy Joel Marriage Was Over"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christie Brinkley once thought Billy Joel was her soulmate. But in her new book, Uptown Girl, the 71-year-old model reveals how his battles with alcohol ultimately shattered that dream\u2014and their marriage. \u201cThe drinking was bigger than the both of us. Booze was the other woman and it was beginning to seem that he preferred to be with her rather than me,\u201d she writes in the memoir, named after Joel\u2019s 1983 hit inspired by her, according to Page Six<\/a>. Brinkley recalls how the singer would disappear on drunken benders during their marriage, which lasted from 1985 to 1994. In one episode, Joel left their daughter Alexa Ray\u2019s fifth birthday party and disappeared for two days, leaving Brinkley with anxious \u201cvisions of his car wrapped around a tree\u201d and a \u201cpanic I couldn\u2019t shake.\u201d The breaking point came when Joel hosted his band for a rehearsal at their East Hamptons home, then drunkenly accused them of stealing his pasta, even though he had eaten it himself. Brinkley asked Joel for a divorce the next day. \u201cHe was acting delusional in a way I\u2019d never seen before,\u201d she said. Despite everything, the exes have stayed friends, and Brinkley said Joel, who has since said he\u2019s stopped drinking, encouraged her to tell her story. \u201cIf there wasn\u2019t that issue…\u201d she told Page Six<\/a>, \u201cI do think that we were probably really soulmates, it was an amazing time of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

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