Billy Joel admits he felt ‘like a homewrecker’ in early profession love triangle

Billy Joel fell in love with the spouse of his greatest good friend and bandmate when he was simply beginning his profession.

In a brand new documentary, “Billy Joel: And So It Goes,” the Piano Man revealed the anguish he went by way of when he informed his good friend he was in love together with his spouse. 

Joel had been residing with bandmate Jon Small; Small’s spouse, Elizabeth Weber; and their son, whereas Joel and Small have been in a duo referred to as Attila of their early 20s.

“I used to be simply in love with a girl, and I acquired punched within the nostril, which I deserved,” Joel mentioned within the documentary. “I felt very, very responsible about it. That they had a toddler, you realize? I felt like a homewrecker.” 

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Earlier this yr, Joel was recognized with a mind situation that pressured him to cancel all of his scheduled concert events. 

Longtime collaborator and the manager producer of the documentary, Steve Cohen, informed Fox Information Digital his fingers are crossed Joel will carry out once more. 

“I at all times have a look at it as a present when he walks on stage,” Cohen mentioned. “I am unable to predict. I do know that the Billy Joel that I had dinner with final night time, that is the Billy Joe that I do know. So, look, it is as much as him. If he seems like he desires to, you realize, ‘play’ Billy Joel on stage once more, we’re all gonna be there for him.”

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The five-time Grammy winner, 76, was recognized with regular stress hydrocephalus (NPH), which happens when cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) builds up inside or across the mind and has led to issues with listening to, imaginative and prescient and steadiness for the musician. 

“I am unable to predict whether or not he is gonna wanna do it. Look, he is acquired two stunning youngsters. His daughter’s now turning 10. He is acquired a terrific spouse. He is acquired a terrific life. Like, he is 76. He does not need to do s—. And he is giving the followers one thing on this documentary that they will get pleasure from extra of. So, I do not know, fingers crossed.”

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Joel fell in love together with his first spouse, Weber, as a result of she wasn’t blissful together with her husband Small.

Weber admitted within the documentary she and Small “weren’t match. We have been very younger, and we didn’t actually know a lot of something. And I acquired increasingly dissatisfied with the life I used to be residing, after which issues acquired difficult.”

She and Joel started spending increasingly time collectively. 

“If you simply discover somebody you’re snug with … and might end your sentences and know what you’re considering with out saying something, generally it’s a low construct,” she mentioned. 

Small mentioned Weber was vital to him, “however I believe I used to be not the man she hoped I might be.”

“I stored seeing that Billy was not the identical man. One thing was the matter, and Billy at some point got here as much as me, turned slightly sincere and mentioned to me, ‘I’m in love together with your spouse.’ So, it was a really devastating factor for me as a result of these have been mainly my two greatest mates.

“He’s crying, and he’s telling me he feels so dangerous, and he didn’t know what to do about it. How does he break his greatest good friend’s coronary heart? However he mentioned she was so highly effective to him that it was value it to him to lose our friendship for it.”

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Joel mentioned that was the top of Attila, and “that was the top of my relationship with Jon for some time.”

He mentioned Weber left as nicely, and he started consuming lots and tried suicide twice.

“I figured that’s it. I don’t wish to reside anymore,” Joel mentioned. “I used to be simply in quite a lot of ache. It was like why hang around? Tomorrow’s going to be identical to immediately, and immediately sucks. So, I simply thought I’d finish all of it.”

After his second try at suicide, Small was the one who took Joel to the hospital.

“Regardless that our friendship had blown up, Jon saved my life,” Joel mentioned. 

Small mentioned though Joel by no means mentioned something to him about it, “The sensible reply I might give why Billy took it so onerous was as a result of he liked me that a lot and that it killed him to harm me that a lot.”

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He mentioned he finally forgave Joel. 

“I lastly acquired over it the place it was like, ‘OK.’ He thought it was over for him, however, to me, he didn’t even begin residing but.”

Joel and Weber ended up getting collectively a couple of yr later after she’d heard songs he’d written about her, when Joel gave her sister a cassette tape of his music. 

“It was all from Elizabeth leaving him, and he was so unhappy. And he put it into music,” his sister, Judy Molinari, mentioned within the documentary.

“Listening to these songs was overwhelming,” Weber admitted. “It was gorgeous that he might accomplish one thing like that.” 

Joel and Weber finally acquired married in 1973 earlier than divorcing in 1982. He’s now married to his fourth spouse, Alexis Roderick, after his marriages to Christie Brinkley and Katie Lee. 

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Half certainly one of “Billy Joel: And So it Goes” premieres Friday, July 18, on HBO and might be accessible to stream on HBO Max. Half two of the documentary might be launched Friday, July 25.