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Billy Joel shares honest details about Some difficult times in his younger years in a new documentary.
The new documentary, Billy Joel: And so it’s going, who performed for the first time at the Tribeca Festival in New York City on Wednesday, June 4, the singer showed opening around one of his lowest points. report People On Thursday, June 5.
Per of the outlet, Joel, 76, shared details of how he fell in love with Elizabeth Weber, a woman at the time Jon Small, In his early 20s. There was a little best friend and fellow Joel at the time, and Joel had moved in with the couple and their son at the time.
Weber appeared in the documentary, noting that she and Joel had spent a lot of time together before a little wind had caught the relationship. He ended with Joel admitting to Small, “I’m in love with your wife.” (Weber and Joel reigned their romance later and were married between 1973 and 1982.)
“I felt very guilty about it. They had a child. I felt like a home -made home,” said Joel in the documentary. “I was in love with a woman alone and I was born in the nose I deserved. Jon was very upset. I was very upset.”
The relationship to Joel and the Small Band caused separation and with their friendship in tattoos, the “piano man” began to spin.
“I had no place to live. I was sleeping in laundry and I was depressed that I was thinking to the point of being almost psychotic,” he said in the documentary. “So I counted, ‘that’s it. I don’t want to live anymore.’ I was in a lot of pain and it was similar to why hanging out, tomorrow is going to be exactly as it is today and today.
Elizabeth Weber.
(Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival)In the documentary Joel’s sister, Judy Molinari, She detailed the emotional period when Joel made his attempt to commit first suicide and thought she was going to lose him.
“He was in a coma for days and days,” he said in the documentary. “I went to see him in hospital, and he set there white as a sheet.
During the second attempt, actually small, Joel rushed to hospital for help.
“Although our friendship was blowing up, Jon saved my life,” Joel shared. (Small eventually forgiven Joel for the relationship with Weber.)
Following the efforts, Joel checked himself into a “observation ward” and the experience helped him get back on the right path.
“I came out of the observation ward and thought to myself, you can use all those emotions to channel that stuff into music,” explained Joel.
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