Within the new two-part documentary “Billy Joel: And So It Goes,” the singer revealed that after having an affair along with his finest pal’s spouse, he tried to ok*ll himself twice.
In accordance with Folks, within the documentary Joel explains that within the Seventies, when he was within the rock band Attila, he developed a romantic relationship with the spouse of his pal and bandmate Jon Small.
“I felt very, very responsible about it,” Joel mentioned. “That they had a baby. I felt like a homewrecker. I used to be simply in love with a lady, and I obtained punched within the nostril, which I deserved. Jon was very upset. I used to be very upset.”
Shortly after, their band Attila broke up, and Joel – who was residing with Small and his spouse Elizabeth Weber on the time – discovered himself homeless.
“I had no place to dwell,” he continued. “I used to be sleeping in laundromats and I used to be depressed, I believe to the purpose of just about being psychotic. So I figured, ‘That’s it. I don’t need to dwell anymore.’ I used to be simply in loads of ache, and it was kind of like, ‘Why hang around? Tomorrow goes to be similar to at the moment is and at the moment sucks.’ So, I simply thought I’d finish all of it.”
His sister Judy, a medical employee, then defined that she had given him some capsules to assist him sleep. Someday, Joel “determined that he was going to take all of them.”
“He was in a coma for days and days and days,” Judy mentioned. “I went to go see him within the hospital, and he was mendacity there white as a sheet. I believed that I’d ok*lled him.”
After the failed try, Joel was dedicated to do it “proper” a second time, revealing that he drank a whole bottle of the cleansing product Lemon Pledge.
This time, Small was the one who took him to the hospital.
“Although our friendship was blowing up, Jon saved my life,” Joel mentioned.
Small added within the documentary: “He by no means actually mentioned something to me, the one sensible reply I can provide as to why Billy took it so laborious was as a result of he cherished me that a lot and that it ok*lled him to harm me that a lot. Finally I forgave him.”
Following this incident, Joel mentioned he entered himself into an commentary ward for a number of weeks. “I obtained out of the commentary ward, and I believed to myself, you may make the most of all these feelings to channel that stuff into music,” he mentioned.