Posted on 12/05/2009 8:33:57 PM PST by malkee
Billy Joels 23-year-old daughter was rushed to St. Vincents Hospital in Manhattan today after ingesting a large number of sleeping pills in what police consider a suicide attempt, The Post has learned. Medics were called to Alexa Ray Joels Bethune St. apartment in the West Village at approximately 12:21 p.m. this afternoon, sources told The Post. A female caller told a 911 operator that Joel had taken several pills and wanted to die, sources said. A family spokeswoman issued a brief statement later this afternoon confirming Joel was in the hospital.
Alexa Ray Joel, only daughter of legendary pop singer Billy Joel, was hospitalized after she took too many sleeping pills. Cops are treating it as an attempted suicide.
"Alexa is stable. Her doctors are assessing her needs and that's all we can say at this moment," said Claire Mercuri, Alexa's and Billy's personal publicist. Joel was conscious at St. Vincents Hospital, and is expected to survive, said other sources. Joel is the only daughter of piano man Billy Joel and his supermodel wife, Christie Brinkley. Brinkley and Joel married in 1984, and divorced in 1994.
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her piano must’ve sounded like a carnival....and her microphone smelled like a beer?
too soon?
Poor thing.
Sad that she has a flake for a mother and a drunk for a father.
She’s going to a deep, dark place. She doesn’t want to go there. And for something that seems so trivial.
And it’s not like she’s ugly either.
Only the Good Die Young
Don’t give a beer to the piano man...
he’s had too much, tonight...
Song “Downeaster Alexa” by Joel has her name...
oh she has a site:
http://www.alexarayjoel.com/
I hope she recovers and figures out how lucky she is to get a second chance.
P.S. I should have written that she’s the child of famous parents.
That's a very long time for a celebrity marriage. About 9.5 years longer than average.
Wow, Uptown Girl
I hope she survives and puts her life together
She needs to stop looking for a man in all the wrong places and find faith in God.
Talented and attractive. I hope a good friend reminds her of this over and over until she gets it that worrying over dating is just not worth feeling so blue. Work on the talent. Help someone else. Walk on the beach and get a dog to take care of. Something until this feeling now passes. I wish her the best and will be praying for a quick recovery.
I’m a long way from 23, but that’s a tough message for a 23-year-old female to swallow.
Strike that. I misread what you posted.
Billy married the uptown girl.
Need i say more?
Very sad.
Prayers for her recovery.
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