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Billy Joel's Ex Christie Brinkley Speaks Out After His Health Diagnosis: 'You’re Our Piano Man'

Christie Brinkley paid tribute to her ex-husband Billy Joel after he revealed his recent diagnosis of normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH). The musician and the model, who share daughter Alexa Ray Joel, divorced in 1994.

In her recently released memoir, Uptown Girl, Brinkley recounted how she and the music icon met at a dive motel bar in St. Barts. “The man was sunburned to a crisp, his face the same color as cranberries and unctuous with oil, which he’d undoubtedly slathered on to soothe the burn, topped by what I like to call ‘the Long Island bubble:' a carapace of curly shellacked hair popular in the 1980s in parts of suburban New York,” Brinkley added. Posting a black and white photo of artwork that depicted a dad holding his young daughter's hand, she wrote, in part, "We love you and we got you, Pop!"

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