Billy Joel reflected on his romance with Christie Brinkley and how “devastated” he was when it came to an end. 

The music icon opened up about their relationship in part two of his HBO documentary “Billy Joel: And So It Goes.” The pair met in 1983 while vacationing in St. Barts in the Caribbean, according to People. They were living in New York at the time and decided to stay in touch, going on their first “real date” to a Beach Boys concert. 

“Here I am dating this beautiful supermodel and … me? I’m from Hicksville. What am I doing with her? What’s she doing with me? But that was a very productive time for me,” Joel said in the documentary, according to People. “I wrote a lot of songs for her. She was a muse.”

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