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Billy Joel's ex-wife Elizabeth Weber reveals how they get along amid his brain disorder battle
Billy Joel 's ex-wife Elizabeth Weber says she can still contact the Piano Man whenever she wants, but appears to be keeping a respectful distance as he deals with a brain disorder called normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH).
'If I wanna talk to him or if I have something to say, I am able to contact him whenever I want to,' Weber said of Joel, 76, in an interview with Us Weekly Friday.
Weber referenced Joel's marriage to equestrian Alexis Roderick, 43, and their two children, Della Rose Joel, nine, and Remy Anne Joel, seven.
'But he has a wife and he has children,' Weber said, 'and right now, he's struggling with something that's … that's a big thing.'
Joel this past May called off a series of concerts that had been scheduled amid a diagnosis of normal pressure hydrocephalus, a brain-related ailment.
Weber initially crossed paths with the famed singer and pianist in the 1960s, amid a timeframe when she was wed to Joel's Attila bandmate Jon Small.
After Joel and Weber had an affair, their band fell apart and Joel dealt with severe depression around the same time.
Weber told the magazine her relationship with The Downeaster 'Alexa' artist 'is as close as it needs to be for two people who decided to divorce 40 years ago.'
Weber said that her son Sean Weber-Small (from her prior marriage) and grandkids have past spent quality time with Joel.
'I have my grandchildren that he knows and they know him,' Weber said. 'My granddaughter Ella taught Bill what TikTok was and showed him what was happening.
'And his relationship with Sean is important to both of them,' adding that her son and Joel 'were very close.'
Weber said that her communications are somewhat constrained by the cross-country distance of their residences.
'We're not distant but we're, you know, and he lives in Florida and I live in California,' Weber said. 'But it's all good.'
The It's Still Rock and Roll to Me artist and Weber tied the knot in 1973, and parted ways in 1982.
The Just The Way You Are singer had been seeing Australia-born supermodel Elle Macpherson prior to his high-profile romance with model Christie Brinkley, 71.
The five-time Grammy winner and his Uptown Girl muse were wed from 1985 to 1994 in a union that produced daughter Alexa Ray Joel, 39.
The We Didn't Start the Fire vocalist subsequently exchanged vows with culinary expert Katie Lee, 43, in 2004 and the couple parted ways in 2009.
Joel has been wed to Roderick since 2015.
The Bronx-born musical artist is the focal point of new two-part documentary titled Billy Joel: And So It Goes, which can be seen on HBO.
