Billy Joel So it wentone of the attempts put him into a coma.
Before he was "Piano Man," a twenties Joel played with his then best friend Jon Small in a Long Island hard rock band Attila. Once, Joel moved in with his young wife Elizabeth Weber and their young son, during which time Joel and Weber spent a lot of time "spending a lot of time together" and developed a "slow architecture" romance. Joel finally admitted, “I fell in love with your wife.”
Joel said in the documentary: “I feel very, very inside. people. "I just fell in love with a woman and I got punched in the nose. Jon was very upset. I was very upset."
This incident led to Attila's breakup, the (temporary) end of his best friendship, and Joel was expelled from the little house. "I don't have a place to live. I sleep in the laundry and I'm very upset, I think it's almost mentally ill." "So I thought, 'That's it. I don't want to live anymore.' I'm just in pain, kind of like, "Why tomorrow is as bad as today." "So, I just thought I would end it."
Joel's sister, Judy, was a medical assistant at the time and had prescribed her brother's sleeping pills to help him fall asleep before. Joel's first suicide attempt was "deciding to go all out."
"He was in a coma for a few days and a few days," Judy said in the documentary. "I went to the hospital to see him, and he was lying there white. I thought I would kill him."
Joel was disappointed that his attempt failed, woke up in the hospital and made the "right" the second time. He said he drank a whole bottle of cleaning products "Lemon Oath" and since then, his former best friend, Xiao, took him to the hospital. "Even if our friendship is breaking out, Jon saved my life," Joel said.
Small added in the documentary: "He never really said anything to me, and I could give me the only practical answer to say that Billy tried so hard to think it was because he loved me so much, and that killed him and hurt me so much. I finally forgave him."
After this attempt, Joel entered an observation ward for several weeks, a decision that changed the trajectory of his life. "I left the observational disease, and I thought to myself, you can use all these emotions to guide these things into the music."
Postscript about the incident: Joel and Webber finally reunited and the two got married. The marriage lasted from 1973 to 1982.
So it went Premiered Wednesday at the Tribeca Film Festival, Joel was unable to attend the screening due to a recent diagnosis of brain disease. However, the singer did send a message through the filmmaker: "Get old, but it's better to be cremated."