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The end of Christie Brinkley and Billy Joel's tumultuous nine-year marriage took a tremendous emotional toll on them. In an episode of the 2025 HBO Max documentary "Billy Joel: And So It Goes," the model shared that the "She's Always A Woman" hitmaker's fame turned their once fun-loving relationship into a distant one. Brinkley explained that touring took her then-husband away from her for extended periods, and joining him on the road didn't make much of a difference because he was generally too preoccupied with other things to spend time with her.

As People noted, Joel admitted that his heart was breaking at the time because of his inability to be with his family. In addition to confessing that the split left him "devastated,"

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