Billy Joel has revealed that, when he first checked himself into rehab for alcohol abuse back in 2005, it was the insistence of his first wife, Katie Lee. “I didn’t want to do it,” Joel said in the HBO documentary,

In 2002, Joel crashed a car in East Hampton, New York and less than a year later, he drove into a tree in Sag Harbor which resulted in him having to be airlifted to the hospital.