Christie Brinkley reveals fight which led to Billy Joel divorce

Christie Brinkley opened up about the fight that she had with husband and iconic singer, Billy Joel which led to the end of their 9 year marriage.

Having tied the knot in 1985, she explained that his excessive drinking while being on the River of Dreams tour pushed their marriage to its limits.

In the second installment of the docuseries, Billy Joel: And So It Goes, she recalled, “I don’t think it’s a secret that his drinking got pretty bad. And he couldn’t really remember what he did when he was drinking, and so he didn’t really know how he could hurt people.”

It got to the point that the model would “just pretend that I was sleeping when he’d come in” since she “didn’t wanna see him in that condition.”

“And then one night we had an argument and I said, ‘I really can’t take this anymore, and I’m just gonna take Alexa back up to New York and leave,’” Brinkley said, referring to their daughter, “And he said, ‘Yeah, fine, go.’”

The divorce taught the singer that “love is not concrete.”

“You feel like it is," he explained, "but there are things eating away at it. And, in the end, it all catches up. And it’s hard. And I was so devastated.”

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