Billy Joel’s Ex Christie Brinkley Speaks Out After His Well being Analysis

Billy Joel can all the time depend on Christie Brinkley to be in his nook.

The mannequin, 71, shared an Instagram post on Saturday, Might 24, during which she paid tribute to her ex-husband, 76, after he revealed his latest prognosis of normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH) a day prior.

Posting a video that featured varied clips of herself and daughter Sailor Brinkley Cook, whose dad is Peter Cook, attending one in all Billy’s concert events, Brinkley wrote, “The entire Brinkley gang is sending you numerous love and good needs for a full and speedy restoration.”

“I used to be searching for some cute photographs of you and Alexa to ship you, after I got here throughout this clip from a latest live performance. It made me snort … but it surely additionally jogged my memory of all the enjoyment you create, and all of the sensational sing-alongs you’ve [led],” she continued. “You flip an enviornment of strangers right into a lounge filled with associates as all of us sway in unison.”

Added Brinkley: “I’m positive I’m talking for everybody in that room after I say please take excellent care of your self, all of us need you again in that white sizzling highlight, you’re OUR piano man. And we’re all the time within the temper to your melodies and all of us hope you’re feeling alright! We Love You, the youngsters, me and an enviornment or two!”

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Billy and Brinkley wed in 1985 after assembly two years prior. They welcomed a daughter collectively, Alexa Ray Joel, in 1985, earlier than their 1994 divorce.

In her not too long ago launched memoir, Uptown Girl, Brinkley recounted how she and the music icon met at a dive motel bar in St. Barts.

“He undoubtedly didn’t seem like a rock star,” the mom of three stated of her first impression of Billy, who was sitting behind a piano.

“The person was sunburned to a crisp, his face the identical coloration as cranberries and unctuous with oil, which he’d undoubtedly slathered on to assuage the burn, topped by what I wish to name ‘the Lengthy Island bubble:’ a carapace of curly shellacked hair in style within the Nineteen Eighties in elements of suburban New York,” Brinkley added.

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Talking with PEOPLE not too long ago about her romance with Billy, Brinkley stated, “We laughed such as you could not imagine.”

“But in addition he was so delicate and he did all of the old school issues, the flowers, the notes and the poems and the songs,” she continued. “He was going into the recording studio and he was writing all these songs and saying, ‘This one’s for you.’ How may I not fall in love with him?” 

Brinkley added that watching Billy carry out dwell added a spark to their relationship throughout their time collectively.

“After I heard him sing on stage, I discovered myself undeniably connected to this bodily sizzling and charismatic man,” she defined.

Billy introduced on Might 23 that he will probably be canceling all scheduled concert events following his NPH prognosis. (NPH is a situation the place extra cerebrospinal fluid builds up within the mind ventricles.)

The star — who can be a dad to daughters Della Rose Joel, 9, and Remy Anne Joel, 7, with spouse Alexis Roderick — is present process particular bodily remedy below his physician’s directions. He has additionally been “suggested to chorus from performing throughout this restoration interval.”

Brinkley’s publish for her ex-husband was shared hours after their daughter Alexa, 39, honored Billy with her own tribute to him amid his well being ordeal.

Posting a black and white photograph of art work that depicted a dad holding his younger daughter’s hand, she wrote, partly, “We love you and we obtained you, Pop!”

“The real care, empathy, and concern from everybody means a lot to him … it means loads to me, too,” Alexa added, then concluding her caption with the lyrics from “Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)” — a music Billy wrote for her that was launched on his 1993 album River of Desires.