{"id":183180,"date":"2025-07-26T22:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T22:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/26\/billy-joel-felt-hurt-by-sir-elton-johns-rehab-comments\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T22:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T22:00:12","slug":"billy-joel-felt-hurt-by-sir-elton-johns-rehab-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/26\/billy-joel-felt-hurt-by-sir-elton-johns-rehab-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Joel felt ‘hurt’ by Sir Elton John’s rehab comments"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Billy Joel<\/a> felt “really hurt” after Sir Elton John encouraged him to go to rehab.<\/p>\n

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Billy Joel has opened up about his friendship with Sir Elton John<\/p>\n

The 76-year-old star admits that some “bad blood” developed between himself and Elton, after the Your Song hitmaker publicly suggested that Billy needed to spend some time in rehab.<\/p>\n

In the HBO documentary Billy Joel<\/a>: And So It Goes, he says: “Elton had made a comment that he thought I needed real rehab. He chalked it up to, ‘Oh, he\u2019s a drunk.’ And that really hurt me.<\/p>\n

“I said wait a minute? Don\u2019t you know me better than that? And there was bad blood for a little while. There was a dovetailing of things that happened during that time.”<\/p>\n

Billy recalled feeling at “rock bottom” when he read Elton’s comments.<\/p>\n

\nHe said: “I was disillusioned with what I thought it was all supposed to mean. It was like all the signs were pointing to me: enough. And I wrote this letter to the band. ‘I don\u2019t want to do this anymore. I\u2019m gonna stop.'”<\/p>\n

\nElton made the comments to Rolling Stone magazine back in 2011, shortly after they toured together.<\/p>\n

\nElton explained at the time that they had “so many cancelled tours because of illnesses and various other things, alcoholism”.<\/p>\n

\nThe chart-topping star – who also struggled with addiction in the 70s and 80s – added: “He’s going to hate me for this, but every time he goes to rehab they’ve been light … I love you Billy, and this is tough love.”<\/p>\n

\nBilly actually spent time in rehab in 2005, and he previously acknowledged that addiction has created “problems” in his life.<\/p>\n

\nThe singer stopped drinking altogether in 2021, and he insisted that it doesn’t bring any value to his life.<\/p>\n

\nSpeaking to the Los Angeles Times newspaper in 2023, Billy shared: “I stopped a couple of years ago. It wasn\u2019t a big Alcoholics Anonymous kick. I just got a point where I\u2019d had enough.<\/p>\n

\n“I didn\u2019t enjoy being completely inebriated, and it probably created more problems in my life than I needed. I don\u2019t need it now.”<\/p>\n

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