EXCLUSIVE: Billy Joel & Christie Brinkley's Daughter Alexa Hospitalized For Drug Overdose
Dec. 5 2009, Published 12:40 p.m. ET
Alexa Ray Joel, the 23-year-old singer/songwriter daughter of Christie Brinkley and Billy Joel was hospitalized Saturday for an overdose of pills, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively.
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A 911 call came in from Alexa's Big Apple apartment at 12:19 pm. A female caller told the dispatcher she had "taken pills." Paramedics responded and found her having difficulty breathing.
Alexa was taken to New York's St. Vincent's Hospital where a NYPD source told RadarOnline.com she is "conscious" and expected to recover.
Billy’s publicist Claire Mercuri said in a statement: “Alexa is stable. Her doctors are assessing her needs and that’s all we can say this moment.”
Other sources told RadarOnline.com that Alexa has been rocked by her parents' personal problems. She supported her mother through her nasty divorce from cheating hubby Peter Cook, even writing a song about it called "Now It's Gone." Alexa also endured her father's divorce earlier this year from Katie Lee Joel, a chef only two years older than she is.
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According to the source, “There was an indication the call came from Alexa’s roommate, but it could have been made by Alexa herself. The caller said the victim had taken “pills” and that they “want to die.”
Investigators at the NYPD’s Sixth Precient are saying the suspected drug overdose may have been part of an attempted suicide, according to the source.
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