Billy Joel’s former wife Elizabeth Weber defends him from “Homewrecker” claims

Billy JoelFormer wife Elizabeth Weber It opens to their marriage and what really led to leaving her first husband, John SmallFor the famous singer.

“I never thought about Bill as I felt the house,” We told Wiper exclusively US weekly Friday, August 8, adding that she needs to “walk carefully” because “John and I had no great love story.”

Weber first met Joel when she was married to his best friend and colleague in the band. The couple was involved in an affair that was credited with dismantling the band and negatively affecting the mental health of Joel, which at a time included deep depression and two attempts to commit suicide.

The case was discussed in the new HBO documentary, consisting of two parts Billy Joel: And so he goesWhich was first shown in July. In this, Joel touches marital infidelity, and continues to describe the feeling that he was not seen as a home scheme.

“The house was destroyed,” she added. “We had no profound relationship, John and E.

In the document, Joel told film makers that “he was in love with a woman, and she was punch in the nose, which I deserved.”

After trying to take his private life for the second time after the division of the band and in the midst of his depression, Small Joel took to the hospital – where he saved his life.

Small said in the documentary. “The only practical answer that I can provide about the reason Billy took greatly because he loved me a lot and that he killed him to harm me a lot. In the end I forgot him.”

Joel and Weber re -delivered it later after the repercussions Christie Brinkley In 1985, the welcome daughter Alexa Ray Joel Before calling her resignation in 1994. Joel then married the author of the cooking book Kati Li In 2004 – the husband divorced five years later in 2009. In 2015, Joel married Alex Rodrik. The husband shares two children, Rose Joel and Remy Ann Joel.

“I became Bill and I, like a bow,” Webi explained to we From their previous relationship. “We had ourselves with Sean. So, I was not trying to obtain the approval of anyone because although I was no longer playing a tool, I am a kind of rock and roll as well. I am outside the border. I decided in those days that I wanted to live a certain life.”

Weber describes her current relationship with Joel as friendly, but she is not particularly close, we“If I want to talk to him or if I have something I say, I can contact him whenever you want.”

“But, he has a wife and has children, and now, he is struggling with something … this is a big thing.” “So (our relationship) is closest to two people who decided to divorce 40 years ago.”

In May, Joel canceled the remaining 2025 round dates after he revealed that he had received a natural diagnosis of hydrocephalus, a brain condition where an abnormal accumulation of the rays that could cause walking, memory, balance and bladder beaters.

“I have my grandchildren that he knew they knew him,” Weber continued their relationship with the midst of his diagnosis. “And his relationship with Sean is important for both of them. So we are not far away, but we, as you know, live in Florida and live in California. But everything is good.”

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