Christie Brinkley and Billy Joel keep a “nice” friendship almost 31 years after their divorce.
The mannequin revealed that she and the daddy of their little one, Alexa Ray Joel, are on good phrases in an interview with Individuals printed Wednesday.
”He lives primarily in Florida so we don’t see him as a lot as when he lived in Sag Harbor, however when he comes by to see Alexa, he’ll are available and say hi there,” Brinkley, 71, informed the outlet.
Brinkley regarded again at their relationship with fondness, recalling how they’d a direct connection.
“We laughed such as you couldn’t imagine,” she informed Individuals. “But in addition he was so delicate and he did all of the old style issues, the flowers, the notes and the poems and the songs. He was going into the recording studio and he was writing all these songs and saying ‘This one’s for you.’ How may I not fall in love with him?”
Brinkley mentioned that when she would watch the “Piano Man” singer carry out on stage, she discovered herself “undeniably connected” to a “bodily sizzling and charismatic man.”
“We known as one another Bada Bing and Bada Growth. As a result of we had been actually like youngsters falling in love,” she remembered. “We had been all of a sudden fumbling and stuttering and dropping issues.”
Their relationship deepened whereas filming his well-known music video “Uptown Lady” in 1983 and two years later, they tied the knot.
Sadly, the pressures of the highlight had been an excessive amount of for his or her marriage they usually divorced in 1994, she revealed in an excerpt of her forthcoming memoir, “Uptown Lady.”
“To be clear, I by no means needed to finish issues with Billy,” she wrote. “However his ingesting was greater than the each of us.”
She informed Individuals, “In the long run, when the connection isn’t functioning the best way you need it to be anymore — that’s the worst sort of loneliness since you simply can’t make it work collectively and that’s painful.”
Regardless of their romantic downfall, lately the duo nonetheless manages to co-parent amicably.
The “Parks and Recreation” alum went on to marry Richard Taubman in 1994 however they divorced after a 12 months.
She then married Peter Cook dinner in 1996 they usually welcomed two youngsters — son Jack, 29, and daughter Sailor, 26 — earlier than divorcing in 2008.
Brinkley was additionally married to François Allaux from 1973 to 1981.
Joel, for his half, has additionally been married three different instances outdoors of his marriage to Brinkley. He was married to Elizabeth Ann Weber from 1973 to 1982, Katie Lee from 2004 to 2009 and he married Alexis Roderick in 2015.
He and Roderick share two daughters: Della Rose, 9, and Remy Anne, 7.
Joel, 75, is seemingly wanting ahead to studying Brinkley’s memoir.
“Alexa described it to him and he’s like, ‘Sounds good, no downside,’” Brinkley divulged.
Her e-book will formally be launched April 29.
