Christie Brinkley Reveals the Moment She Knew She "Couldn't Live" With Billy Joel

[quote] Brinkley told Joel that she wanted a divorce the next day, but it was still a hard decision. “To be clear, I never wanted to end things with Billy,” she explained. “I read every self-help book I could find…we went to see a string of psychiatrists, psychologists and other medical doctors.”

[quote] Despite their ups and downs, Brinkley revealed that she has no hard feelings towards Joel. “He’s the father of my firstborn and we spent such great formative years together. And I’ll love him forever. Things just reached a point where I knew I couldn’t live with him.”

[quote] In an excerpt from her memoir Uptown Girl previously shared with People, Brinkley wrote that Joel’s “drinking was bigger than the both of us” and drove them apart from each other. “In the end, when the relationship isn’t functioning the way you want it to be anymore—that’s the worst kind of loneliness because you just can’t make it work together and that’s painful," she shared.

Where would Billy Joel go to, when he "disappeared for days?"

That's weird.

Was he cheating? With a guy or a girl?

I heard he was going to give a 'coming out' story many years back but ended up marrying another woman.

Wow those are some epic drunken blackouts.

[quote]“He was acting delusional in a way I’d never seen before,” revealing that Joel became convinced that his bandmates had eaten his pasta after he’d already eaten it.

Hangry Scenes from an Italian Restaurant

To R1& R2, I met them for the 1st time at the old Four Seasons Hotel on Logan Square in Philly in 1990.

Billy Joel did like to drink.....alot; she was absolutely beautiful in person, really nice woman.

I always thought he was mixing drugs with the alcohol, what I don't know but he could play the piano really good in The Swann Lounge at the hotel.

"A bottle of white...A bottle of Red"

"Fuck my Drunken ass cunt in the bed"

"I'll do anything you want...as long as u fuck my drunk cunt"

“It’s not about the pasta!”

I would have left a soon as I saw what his genetics did to our child.

I can't believe it took until r8.

She woke up out of the "delusional romantic" part of being in love. Her husband had a fish-face. Becoming an ichthyologist was not her thing.

The pasta story is funny, but I don’t think she thought so.

Living with a drunk is exhausting. I still haven't found the courage to leave my drunk husband.

Yeah, the pasta story sounds funny to an outsider, but to the spouse of an alcoholic, it's yet another frustrating, pitiful and embarassing behaviour that proves no matter how much you love them and beg them to change, the bottle is their God.

I left my alcoholic husband 23 years ago. Living with him was a nightmare. I didn't know how I could leave as we had many financial entanglements and a lot of debt (his). I woke up one day and it was like a bell clanged in my head and I said out loud to myself "I'm leaving today". And I did. I didn't plan it, I didn't have a plan for moving out or forward, I just did it. It was very difficult but ultimately my life is infinitely better because of it. Hugs to you R12.

Thank you, R13, and kudos to you for making it out. I think it will probably be like that for me. One day I will wake up and decide that's it. At the moment, I'm still stuck in that mindset of worrying about what will happen to him. But everyday, my heart grows a little bit harder.

I would have divorced him for "Uptown Girl" alone.