Billy Joel Details Multiple Suicide Attempts After Affair With Friend’s Wife

Billy Joel Details Multiple Suicide Attempts After Affair With Friend’s Wife

Billy Joel reflected on his two suicide attempts earlier in his career, when he had an affair with his bandmate’s partner—and later, his first wife Elizabeth Weber.

Billy Joel Reveals Suicide Attempts Following Affair With Best Friend’s Wife in New Doc

Billy Joel reveals that he twice attempted suicide — sparked by his affair with a band mate’s wife — in his new HBO documentary And So It Goes, and that one of the attempts left him in a coma. Before he was “The Piano Man,” a twentysomething Joel played in a Long Island hard rock band called Attila alongside his then-best friend Jon Small. At one point, Joel moved in with Small, his wife Elizabeth Weber, and their young son, during which Joel …

Billy Joel Attempted Suicide Twice and Fell Into a Coma After Affair with Friend's Wife. Why He Wanted to 'End It All’

Billy Joel reveals he attempted suicide twice in his new documentary, 'Billy Joel: And So It Goes,' which premiered at Tribeca Festival in New York City.

Billy Joel reveals multiple suicide attempts after having affair with...

Billy Joel revealed multiple suicide attempts, one of which left him in a coma, after having an affair with his friend's wife in a new documentary.

Billy Joel Reveals 2 Suicide Attempts and Coma in Early 20s

Billy Joel is sharing candid details about some tough times in his younger years in a new documentary. The new documentary, Billy Joel: And So It Goes, which premiered at the Tribeca Festival in New York City on Wednesday, June 4, showed the singer opening up about one of his lowest points, reported People on Thursday, June 5. Per the outlet, Joel, 76, shared details about how he fell “in love” with Elizabeth Weber, the then-wife of Jon Small, i…

‘Billy Joel: And So It Goes’ Review: The Tribeca Festival Opens with a Luscious Longform Documentary That Captures Just the Way He Is

When it was announced that this year’s Tribeca Festival would open with the premiere of the HBO documentary “Billy Joel: And So It Goes,” I assumed, as a fan of Billy Joel and pop documentaries (which tend toward the light and hagiographic these days), that we were going to be in for a punchy, rousing, upbeat behind-the-music Tribeca appetizer. “And So It Goes” is surely an infectious celebration of Joel’s pop magicianship — his indelible qualit…