Billy Joel is head over heels in love with spouse Alexis Roderick, and so they’ll rejoice their tenth marriage ceremony anniversary subsequent 12 months – and he’s crediting the previous equestrian professional with serving to him off his radically harmful life-style that plagued his life for years. The legendary performer would be the first one to confess that his reckless habits almost completed him off.
“A couple of years in the past, he was piling on the kilos and ingesting closely, however then this wonderful lady entered his life,” an insider completely tells Nearer. “He’s trying good, and he’s shed some weight. He’s not tremendous skinny, however that is an enchancment. The extreme consuming and booze binges that plagued him are up to now.”
Billy, 75, married Alexis, 41, in 2015. Collectively, they share daughters Della and Remy. The “Piano Man” singer can be a dad to daughter Alexa Ray Joel, whom he welcomed with ex-wife Christie Brinkley.
“Alexis is ultra-fit and a wholesome affect, she’s all the time there to maintain him in verify and ensure he doesn’t slide off the rails,” the supply provides. “He’s in a distinct headspace, at residence and at work. He’s discovered the that means of moderation, and it’s all the way down to her, plus he’s obtained heaps extra power and isn’t breathless on stage like he was earlier than. His household is so grateful. He’s 75, and so they need him to stay round one other few many years.”
Prior to now, Billy opened up about his struggles with alcohol dependancy and the way it derailed his profession at occasions.
“I couldn’t be pretty much as good as I wished to be. It drove me loopy. The ingesting was a part of it,” he instructed Parade. “If I couldn’t be pretty much as good as I wished to be, I’d simply drown it with booze. … I do know I’ve obtained a fame that I’m this depressed man. I’m not — I’m a cheerful man. … I used to be in rehab twice.”
“The primary time in rehab, in ’02, I wouldn’t even keep,” he stated of his first rehab stint. “I used to be solely there for a few days. The press was in every single place. I stated, ‘I obtained to get out of right here.’ The second time was at [the] Betty Ford [Center in 2005], which was not loads of enjoyable. I used to be ingesting an excessive amount of. I stated, ‘This time I’m going to stay it by way of for a month.’ It was top-of-the-line issues I ever did.”
After getting his ingesting beneath management, Billy was in a position to bounce again into his profitable music profession with a smile on his face. Only recently, he serenaded Christie, 70, whereas performing the music “Uptown Lady” at his Madison Sq. Backyard present on April 26, and followers have been buzzing over the second on social media.
