Christie Brinkley and Billy Joel maintain a “great” friendship almost 31 years after their divorce.
The model revealed that she and her son’s father, Alexa Ray Joel, are in good terms in an interview with People published on Wednesday.
“He lives mainly in Florida, so we don’t see him as much as he lived in Sag Harbor, but when he comes to see Alexa, he will enter and greet,” Brinkley, 71, said to The Outlet.
Brinkley looked at his relationship with love again, remembering how they had an immediate connection.
“We laugh as if you couldn’t believe,” he told People. “But he was also so sensitive and did all outdated things, flowers, notes and ponds and songs. He went to the recording studio and was writing all these songs and saying” this is for you. “How could I not fall in love with him?”
Brinkley said that when he saw the singer of “Piano Man” acting on stage, he found “undeniably attached” to a “physical and charismatic man.”
“We called Bada Bing and Bada Tree. Because we were really like adolescents in love,” he recalled. “Suddenly we were fluttering, stuttering and dropping things.”
His relationship deepened while filming his famous music video “Uptown Girl” in 1983 and two years later, they married.
Unfortunately, the pressures of the center of attention were too much for their marriage and divorced in 1994, he revealed in an excrepert or in his next memoirs, “Uptown Girl”.
“To be clear, I never wanted to finish things with Billy,” he wrote. “But its alcohol consumption was larger than both.”
She told people: “In the end, when the relationship no longer works in the way you want it to be, that is the sausage of loneliness because you cannot make it work together and that is painful.”
Despite its romantic fall, these days the duo still manages to be competent to be friendly.
The “Parks and Recreation” student married Richard Taubman in 1994, but they divorced after a year.
Then he married Peter Cook in 1996 and welcomed two children: Son Jack, 29, and daughter Sailor, 26, before divorcing in 2008.
Brinkley was also married to François Allaux from 1973 to 1981.
Joel, meanwhile, has also married another three times outside his marriage to Brinkley. He married Elizabeth Ann Weber from 1973 to 1982, Katie Lee from 2004 to 2009 and married Alexis Roderick in 2015.
He and Roderick share two daughters: Della Rose, 9, and Remy Anne, 7.
Joel, 75, apparently hopes to read Brinkley’s memoirs.
“Alexa described it and says:” It sounds good, no problem, “Brinkley said.
His book will be officially launched on April 29.