Christie Brinkley Life lived most people could just imagine, and finally it says everything in his new memoir ", up up.

The 71-year-old supermodel, which survived the heart, tragedy, and even a frightening helicopter crash, does not open like never before her savage journey.

Christie Brinkley reveals secrets in her book Billy JoelPain from divorce and how she found happiness again.

Brinkley, who called her memoir after Joel's 1983. drowned the song inspired, she found that his bugs with drinking eventually sentenced himself in the end.

"If there was no problem ..." "she said Page sixYou cross. "I think we're probably really soulmate, it was an amazing time of my life. We were a lot of fun. We were such nomads, Gypsies, just between his work and my world ... It was wonderful, really wonderful."

But behind the glamorous facade, things were falling apart.

Brinkley writes that Joel would not disappear as he drank, even disappeared during the fifth birthday daughter Alexa Ray, the terrifying episode that left "the visions of his car wrapped around the tree" and developing "I could not shake". (Eright, Joel 2003. year crashed Mercedes on a tree in 2003)

There were other blowing, like Brinkley locked Joal from his hotel apartment after the wonder of the rumor, he had fun with Australian actress, just to return "visible and soundly drunk."

Point for breaking? Drunk burning over a bowl of pasta with your band.

"He acted in a misconception in a way in a way, I've never seen before," Brinkley recalled, revealing she asked for a divorce occasionally next day. "Drinking was bigger than both of us," she said. "Booze was another woman and began to do it would rather be more with her, not me."

Despite the pain, Brinkley said he was still holding a deep affection against Joel, who is now sober and married to Alexis Roderick, with which he shares two young daughters.

"He was the father of my first-born and we spent such great formative years together. And I will love him forever," she said.

When she told him about the book, Joel told her, "Go ahead and tell her story ... good, bad, whatever you need to say."

Brinkley hopes that the story illuminated her dependence and affects families. "When you're in the independence of drinking, you don't remember what you did," she said. "It's a person who counts on you who knows what happened."

But Billy was not her only heart.

The Sports Illustrated The legend found fame after moving to Paris at 18, Hearroken over a spouse. She married Jean François Allaux in Paris, but the romance ended up in the divorce until 1981. years.

Then the tragedy came. In 1983. Her boyfriend, Olivier Chandon de Brailles, the heir to the engine & Chandon Fortune, was killed in a racing accident. Shortly afterwards, Brinkley met Joel in the role bar in St. Barts.

Her life took another scary line in 1994. year when she survived the decline of helicopters, while heli-skiing in Telluride. Brinkley described how the helicopter "just fell from the sky," and her ski boot was caught in the wreck, dragging her towards clean clite, just to save her from snow.

It credited "magic dirt" charm from Chimayo, New Mexico, for her survival. "The fact that one of us has lived through that is so a miracle," she said. "And every day is such a gift."

Although she and Joel were separated, he rushed with foreign, but Brinkley heard him tell him the phone, "No, don't worry, I'm not just coming back to her."

"It broke my heart," she admitted.

Brinkley's third marriage, Raener Rick Taubman Real Estate, also ended. He states that he "borrowed" two million dollars from his seven-month marriage.