Billy Joel Attempted Suicide Twice After Having Affair With Friend’s Wife

Billy Joel is sharing a very personal side of his past and opening up about two past suicide attempts, one which resulted in him falling into a coma — after having an affair with a former bandmate’s wife. On June 4, the first half of the music icon’s upcoming documentary “Billy Joel: And So It Goes” premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. While Billy reportedly did not attend the screening himself, the audience learned from the “Vienna” singer on screen that while he was living with Attila bandmate Jon Small in his younger years, he’d begun an affair with Jon’s wife Elizabeth Weber. The guilt of the affair haunted Billy, and the now 76-year-old revealed that depression led him to two suicide attempts.