Billy Joel has revealed that there was a time when tensions ran high between him and Elton John, describing their relationship as having “bad blood.”

In the second installment of the HBO documentary Billy Joel: And So It Goes, the 76-year-old singer reflects on the strain in his relationship with Elton John, sparked by John’s public comments suggesting he needed rehab.

“Elton had made a comment that he thought I needed real rehab,” Joel recalls in the documentary per PEOPLE, referring to a 2011 interview John did with Rolling Stone. “He chalked it up to, ‘Oh, he’s a drunk.’ And that really hurt me.”

“I said, wait a minute? Don’t you know me better than that? And there was bad blood for a little while. There was a dovetailing of things that happened during that time,” Joel added.

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