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Billy Joel He relives some of the most painful moments of his life.
In the upcoming documentary, “Billie Joel: And That,” the “Piano Man” crooner, 76, recalls the moment when his first wife, Elizabeth Weber, left her marriage shortly after the fatal crash of the bike.
“I’ve always made romantic motorcycles romantic. There’s something about it. I feel like I can be completely detached from the world. There’s a sense of freedom about that,” Joel said in the documentary. people.
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Filmed alongside her ex-wife, Elizabeth Weber, Billy Joel was seriously injured after a fatal motorcycle accident in 1982. (Getty Images)
Joel said his praise for the motorcycle “had always scared him.”
“I told him a lot, you know, ‘You can’t do this, this is dangerous,'” she said.
“Elizabeth was warning me, she said, ‘Be careful, be careful.’
In 1982, Joel suffered multiple injuries after his bike crashed into a vehicle midway through a crossing.
Elizabeth Weber was married to Joel from 1973 to 1982. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images at Tribeca Festival)
“I was surprised I was still alive. I should have died in the accident,” he said. “And then, I lay there for a few minutes in shock and went to the hospital.”
The accident caused him to have broken arms, legs and wrists.
While he recovered in the hospital, Weber opted out of marriage.
“I would have stayed, I could have made that accommodation for someone you loved, but I couldn’t see him kill myself,” Weber recalled placing the house keys in the tray in his hospital room. “I didn’t have it and I felt very strongly about what was going on.”
When Weber left the hospital, she recalls what she told Joel: “I think one day they might write about us. According to her, Joel replied, “I hope they can say we’ve been there for a long time.”
She added, “It was that. It was the final. That was it.”
Couple I was married From 1973 to 1982.
Joel said he always praised motorcycles before a fatal crash. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
“After the ‘glass house’ came out, I was always on the road, working, working. I looked back at the man and didn’t even know who he was. documentary. “So it must have been not easy to marry me at the time.”
“I didn’t want him to change, but I didn’t want to live that way. My reaction to that was to get a place in New York City where you can enjoy anonymity.
“We all dealt with stress in a variety of ways, and there were a lot of alcohol use and, ultimately, a lot of drug use.”
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Singer 76 appears in the new documentary, “Billie Joel: And It Goes.” (Getty Images)
Elsewhere in the documentary, Joel also revealed why he attempted suicide twice, causing him to fall into coma.
When the musician was in his early 20s, Joel was part of a band called Attila along with his close friend John Small, who was then married to Weber. He moved in with little Weber and their son, people.
“Bill and I spent a lot of time together,” Weber confessed to the documentary. She added that their friendship is a progressive and “slow build.” Joel finally said to his best friend, “I I’m in love with your wife. ”
“I felt very guilty about it. They had kids. It felt like a homewreck,” Joel admitted in a documentary that premiered at the Tribecca Film Festival on Wednesday. “I was in love with a woman and my nose was punched. I deserved it. John was very upset. I was very upset.”
Billy Joel opens up about the incident that led to two suicide attempts
Joel recently canceled the tour to diagnose him with a brain injury. (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images)
The betrayal not only ended the friendship between Joel and Small at the time, but also disbanded the band Attila. Consuming guilt and depression, Joel’s personal and professional life was unraveled when he began the spiral.
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“I had no place to live. I was sleeping in the laundromat, I was depressed, Joel said in the documentary. So I said, “That’s all. I don’t want to live anymore.” I was just feeling a lot of pain and why was it like hanging out like I do today?
Joel’s sister shares in the film that she worked as a medical assistant and gives him sleeping pills to help her restless night.
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“But Billy decided he was going to take them all… he was coma for days and days,” she said emotionally. “I went to see him in the hospital and he had white in it like a sheet. I thought I’d killed him.”
Joel admitted to being “very selfish” during the upheaval, but when he woke up from his coma he recalled his initial thoughts that he wanted to try suicide again.
During Joel’s second attempt at suicide, he ingested the furniture polishing “Lemon Pledge.” Miraculously, he survived a small attempt.
“Even though our friendship was exploding, John saved my life,” Joel explained in the documentary.
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Stephanie Giang-Paunon of Fox News Digital contributed to this post.
