Christie Brinkley Reveals Drunken Billy Joel Second She Nearly Did not Embrace In Memoir

In her memoir, Uptown Lady, the 71-year-old supermodel recalled watching Joel drunkenly eat spaghetti from a big pan on the range … earlier than then accusing his household of consuming his pasta and kicking them out of the home, per the Los Angeles Instances.

“I hesitated to place that scene within the guide,” she informed the outlet in an interview selling her tell-all. “However on the identical time, it demonstrates what I used to be up towards.”

Brinkley additionally revealed throughout the interview why she by no means informed anybody in regards to the singer’s ingesting habits, nor their points within the marriage.

“I used to be 100% devoted to Billy, however I by no means informed anybody about our points, not even my associates,” she informed the newspaper. “It was very troublesome in that manner, however we had a toddler collectively, and I used to be attempting to guard the household.”

Figuring out that alcoholism “is a illness,” she stated she needed to remain within the marriage and work by way of their points collectively.

“I knew that there needed to be a way to assist him, and never at all times get to that time the place this one who you like is all of a sudden a stranger to you,” she stated.

The pair stayed married for 11 years earlier than she filed for divorce in 1994. The break up got here after the ingesting took over and he was rumored to have had an affair — rumors he allegedly denies.

“To at the present time, Billy continues to disclaim ever having had affairs, and I’ve at all times believed him,” she writes within the guide. “However on that New 12 months’s Day in 1994, when he did lastly straggle residence, I requested him to go away.”

“His ingesting was larger than the each of us,” she additionally informed the Instances. “Ultimately, when the connection is not functioning the best way you need it to be anymore, that is the worst form of loneliness since you simply cannot make it work collectively and that’s painful.”

Regardless of what they went by way of, Brinkley revealed they’re now have a “nice” friendship.

“He lives primarily in Florida, so we do not see him as a lot as when he lived in Sag Harbor, however when he comes by to see [their daughter] Alexa, he’ll are available in and say howdy,” she shared.

Sadly for Brinkley, her expertise which dishonest allegations didn’t finish with Joel.

Throughout her fourth marriage to architect Peter Prepare dinner, she found he was having an affair in 2006, which result in the breakdown of their eight yr union. Looking back, she calls theirs the “most tortured relationship I’ve ever had,” per PEOPLE. 

The divorce and custody battle made headlines all over the world as they fought over their daughter, Sailor, and Jack, her son whom he’d adopted.

For years, Brinkley left the main points of how she realized about his affair to herself, nonetheless she recalled the story in her memoir.

“Excuse me,” she stated a person she had by no means seen earlier than stated to her whereas at a highschool commencement at which she was talking. “I must let you know that smug husband of yours has been having an affair with my teenage daughter,” she stated the person claimed.

“I used to be so surprised that I froze,” she wrote. She regarded into the viewers the place Prepare dinner was sitting with Jack. “As quickly as I noticed him, Peter’s eyes had been already educated on my face, as he started shaking his head, ‘No,'” she revealed, per PEOPLE.

“When your complete world falls aside and also you notice in a heartbeat you’ve got all of a sudden turn into the cliche middle-aged lady whose husband is having an affair with a a lot (a lot) youthful lady, what do you do?” she wrote.

Prepare dinner has since admitted to the affair.

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