Source : PERTHNOW NEWS
Christie Brinkley’s relationship to Billy Joel was “painful” by the end.
The 71-year-old model tied the knot with ‘Uptown Girl’ singer Billy, 75, in 1985 and even though there was a time that she felt like the “luckiest girl”, the whole relationship just eventually stopped “functioning ” so they divorced after almost a decade together. .
Writing in her new narrative ‘Uptown Girl’, she said: “ I also believe in love.
“There were a dozen doozies. I had two wonderful likes, [my second husband ] Jean-Francois and Billy. We laughed like you could n’t feel.
“And seeing him in music.
“ I felt like the luckiest woman in the whole area. I liked to be straight in the front row by the music so he could glance at me and I may look away and see everything. But [in the end], our marriage was n’t working in the way you want it to again and it was terrible. ”
Just months after her divorce from Billy, Christie survived a helicopter crash and reflected that she made some “really bad choices” at the time and she was still “reeling ” from the split.
She told PEOPLE:“ I certainly had post-traumatic stress disorder and I was making some really bad decisions. I was actually lost.
“ I was looking at myself in that section, like, what happened to you?
“ I think I was reeling from losing Billy and and I was thinking Billy is going to come riding into town any minute and get ‘ I can’t reduce you. I got in deeper. I did n’t take time to stop and reflect and study. ”
Christie subsequently married Richard Taubman in 1994 and they had Jack, 29, along but split up after only a month together.
The former ‘Masked Singer ’ contestant, then married Peter Cook in 1996 and went on to have Sailor, 26, with him, but they divorced in 2008.
When asked about love in general, Christie insisted that it is something that needs to be “nurtured” but it cannot be “changed ” to fit around a situation or a want.
She added: “Love is something that you have to enjoy while you have it and nourish it, but you can’t drop onto it and you can’t modify it or casting it to your needs. ”
