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Key points
- The legend of music Billy Joel remembers having had an affair with the wife of her group comrade in part 1 of the documentary HBO Billy Joel: And it’s okay.
- The singer-songwriter “Piano Man” remembers two suicide attempts after losing the woman on which he exploded his friendship.
- Joel was verified in an observation room to receive psychiatric treatment for his depression.
Billy Joel opens how to have an affair with her best friend’s wife led him to explode his Heavy Metal group and temporarily lose his closest friend. The act also sent the singer-songwriter to a depressed spiral so intense that he tried to commit suicide.
In the first episode of his HBO documentary in two parts Billy Joel: And that’s okayThe singer of “Vienne”, 76, explained that he had fallen into her future wife Elizabeth Weber when she was still married to her best friend and group companion of Attila, Jon Small.
“I fell in love and we got into a relationship,” said Joel. “I felt very, very guilty about it. They had a child, do you know? I felt like a creator. ”
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In his own interview, Small recalled that Joel had informed him of his romance and the romance of Weber.
“He cries and he tells me that he feels so bad, he didn’t know what to do on this subject. How does he break the heart of his best friend? Small says. “But he said that she was so powerful for him that it was worth losing our friendship for that.”
Joel added: “I was just in love with a woman. And I was struck in the nose, which I deserved. Jon was very upset. I was very upset. And it was the end of Atila. It was the end of my relationship with Jon for a while.”
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Shortly after meeting, however, Joel explained that Weber suddenly “taken off”. The combined loss of her and Small sent the Crooner of “Piano Man” to a depressed spiral who saw her drink “a lot” and contemplate end her life.
“I had no place to live,” said Joel. “I slept in laundries, and I was depressed, I think, to the point of being almost psychotic. So I said to myself, That’s it, I don’t want to live anymore. I just had a lot of pain. It was a bit like, Why go out? Tomorrow will be like today, and today is zero. So I just thought I would finish everything. “”
Joel then tried to commit suicide by ingesting a large amount of sleeping pills that were given to him by his sister, Judy Molinari.
“It was very selfish,” said the five -time winner of the Grammys about his attempt. “I didn’t think of others – how it would have an impact. And then I remember woke up in a hospital. My first thought was, I couldn’t even do this correctly. You can’t even do yourself. So I thought, I will try to redo this.“”
He tried to commit suicide a second time drinking a bottle of lemon promise cleaning liquid, but was rescued by Small, which was able to take him to the hospital in time. Joel added: “Even if our friendship had exploded, Jon saved my life.”
Small finally forgiven Joel to go out with Weber.
“I finally recovered where it was like, okay,” said Small. “He thought it was over for him. And, for me, he hasn’t even started to live yet.”
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After his multiple suicide attempts, Joel verified himself in an observation room in order to receive psychiatric treatment for his depression.
“I would go to the nurses and I said and said:” Hey, I’m fine. These people are crazy. “Okay, Mr. Joel. “They freed me after a few weeks and I felt grieved – these people had really deep psychiatric problems. I just felt sorry for myself. And I said:” That’s it. I will never feel so sorry for me again. “”
When he was released, Joel said he had “run in the street” and “never looked back”. Although he noted, his time in the room taught him an important lesson on the power of music.
“I got out of the observation room and I said to myself, You can use all these emotions to channel this thing in music,“He said.
Joel finally reconnected with Weber, and the couple got married from 1973 to 1982. Meanwhile, Weber also worked as a commercial director of Joel under the management of the now missing circuits.
The first half of And it’s okay is now streaming on HBO Max, the second episode that should fall on July 25.
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