Christie Brinkley Reveals Drunken Billy Joel Second She Nearly Did not Embody 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 Occasions.

“I hesitated to place that scene within the e book,” she instructed the outlet in an interview selling her tell-all. “However on the similar time, it demonstrates what I used to be up in opposition to.”

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

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

Understanding 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 that you like is immediately a stranger to you,” she stated.

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

“To this present day, Billy continues to disclaim ever having had affairs, and I’ve at all times believed him,” she writes within the e book. “However on that New Yr’s Day in 1994, when he did lastly straggle dwelling, I requested him to depart.”

“His ingesting was greater than the each of us,” she additionally instructed the Occasions. “Ultimately, when the connection is not functioning the way in which you need it to be anymore, that is the worst sort 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 and say hi there,” she shared.

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

Throughout her fourth marriage to architect Peter Cook dinner, she found he was having an affair in 2006, which result in the breakdown of their eight 12 months union. Looking back, she calls theirs the “most tortured relationship I’ve ever had,” per PEOPLE. 

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

For years, Brinkley left the small print of how she discovered about his affair to herself, nevertheless 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 have to 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 appeared into the viewers the place Cook dinner was sitting with Jack. “As quickly as I noticed him, Peter’s eyes had been already skilled on my face, as he started shaking his head, ‘No,'” she revealed, per PEOPLE.

“When your complete world falls aside and also you understand in a heartbeat you have immediately grow to be the cliche middle-aged girl whose husband is having an affair with a a lot (a lot) youthful girl, what do you do?” she wrote.

Cook dinner has since admitted to the affair.

Uptown Lady is on sale now, wherever books are offered.