Alexa Ray Says Dad Billy Joel Is 'a Fighter' And 'doing Great' Since Brain Disorder Diagnosis

Billy Joel’s girl Alexa Ray Joel is proud he is taking his wellness seriously.

“He’s doing beingness therapy regularly and he’s doing great. He’s mislaid weight arsenic he’s connected his diet,” nan singer-songwriter told nan Hollywood Reporter successful an question and reply published Thursday. “I’m truthful proud of him. He’s specified a trooper, truthful resilient and committed to being patient and proactive. He’s a fighter. He’s ever been a combatant and talks successful his documentary astir really life’s for illustration a fight.”

The “Piano Man” singer, who was nan taxable of nan two-part HBO documentary “Billy Joel: And So It Goes,” revealed successful May that he had been diagnosed pinch normal unit hydrocephalus, aliases NPH, a upset caused by a buildup of cerebrospinal fluid successful nan ventricles of nan brain. According to a connection shared astatine nan time, Joel’s information was affecting his hearing, imagination and balance, and doctors recommended he refrain from performing for a while.

Joel antecedently shared immoderate encouraging updates astir his information successful July.

“I cognize a batch of group are worried astir maine and my health, but I’m okay,” he told People. “What I person is thing very fewer group cognize about, including me, nary matter really overmuch you effort to investigation it. I’m doing my champion to activity pinch it and to retrieve from it.”

“I consciousness good,” he said during an quality connected Bill Maher’s “Club Random” podcast. “They support referring to what I person arsenic a encephalon disorder, truthful it sounds a batch worse than what I’m feeling.”

Alexa Ray, Joel’s girl pinch ex-wife Christie Brinkley, besides shared that her begetter had downplayed his infamous autumn during a capacity of “It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me” astatine a show past twelvemonth successful Connecticut to support her from worrying.

“When I saw nan footage, I was crying,” she said. “But past I went pinch him to nan doctors, and we’re connected apical of everything. I conscionable show him to enactment healthy.”

On Thursday, Billy soaked successful nan emotion astatine a sold-out concert successful grant of him and his euphony astatine New York’s Carnegie Hall. Performers included Alexa Ray, Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty, Pat Monahan of Train, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Itzhak Perlman, Wyclef Jean and Rufus Wainwright.