Billy Joel's first wife walked out on him in hospital bed after motorcycle crash that nearly killed him

Billy Joel is reliving immoderate of the astir achy moments successful his life. 

In the upcoming documentary, "Billy Joel: And So It Goes," the "Piano Man" crooner, 76, recalled the infinitesimal his archetypal wife, Elizabeth Weber, walked distant from their matrimony soon aft his near-fatal motorcycle crash. 

"I ever romanticized motorcycles. There’s thing astir it. I consciousness similar I tin beryllium wholly disconnected from the world. There’s a consciousness of state astir that," Joel said successful the doc, per People. 

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Billy Joel, pictured with ex-wife Elizabeth Weber, suffered terrible injuries aft a near-fatal motorcycle mishap successful 1982.  (Getty Images)

Joel said his admiration for motorcycles near Weber "scared each the time." 

"I connected galore occasions said to him, you know, 'You can’t bash this, this is dangerous,'" she said.

"Elizabeth had warned me, she said, 'Be careful, beryllium careful, 'cause you’re going to person an accident,'" the instrumentalist recalled. 

In 1982, Joel suffered aggregate injuries aft his motorcycle crashed into a conveyance mid-intersection. 

Elizabeth Weber was joined to Joel from 1973 to 1982.  (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival)

"I was amazed I was inactive alive. I should person died successful that accident," helium said. "And I laid determination successful daze for a mates of minutes and I went to the hospital."

The mishap near him with a breached arm, limb and wrist.

While helium recovered successful the hospital, Weber opted retired of the marriage. 

"I would've stayed, I would've been capable — similar truthful galore women earlier maine — to marque that accommodation for idiosyncratic you emotion ,but determination was nary mode that I could basal by and ticker him termination himself," said Weber, who recalled placing the location cardinal onto a tray successful his infirmary room. "I conscionable didn't person that successful me. And I felt precise powerfully that that’s what was going."

When Weber near the hospital, she recalled telling Joel, "You know, someday they whitethorn constitute astir america and I anticipation that they accidental that we truly did something." According to her, Joel responded with, "I anticipation they could accidental we went each the way."

She added, "And that was it. That truly was the final. That was it."

The mates were married from 1973 until 1982.

Joel said helium ever had an admiration for motorcycles earlier his near-fatal crash.  (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

"After ‘Glass Houses’ came retired I was ever connected the road, working, working, I look backmost connected that feline and I don’t adjacent cognize who helium was, helium had to beryllium truthful ambitious to enactment that hard and enactment that much," Joel said successful the documentary. "So, it indispensable person not been casual to beryllium joined to maine astatine the time."

"I wasn't asking him to change, but I conscionable did not privation to unrecorded similar that. My effect to it was to get a spot successful New York City wherever you tin bask anonymity — truthful it wasn’t truthful overmuch arsenic we separated, but we started to get a small spot isolated from 1 different and I besides knew that helium wasn't successful a bully place. We were each nether a batch of stress," Weber said. 

"All of america dealt with our stresses successful antithetic ways. And truthful determination was a lot, a batch of intoxicant usage and yet a batch of cause use."

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The singer, 76, stars successful the caller documentary, "Billy Joel: And So It Goes." (Getty Images)

Elsewhere successful the documentary, Joel besides opened up astir what led him to effort termination doubly and autumn into a coma. 

When the instrumentalist was successful his aboriginal 20s, Joel was portion of a set called Attila with his champion friend, Jon Small, who was joined to Weber astatine the time. He ended up moving successful with Small, Weber, and their son, according to People.

"Bill and I spent a batch of clip together," Weber confessed successful the documentary, per People. She added that their relationship was gradual and a "slow build." Joel yet told his champion friend, "I'm in emotion with your wife."

"I felt very, precise blameworthy astir it. They had a child. I felt similar a homewrecker," Joel admitted successful the documentary, which premiered astatine the Tribeca Film Festival connected Wednesday. "I was conscionable successful emotion with a woman, and I got punched successful the nose, which I deserved. Jon was precise upset. I was precise upset."

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Joel precocious canceled his circuit owed to a encephalon upset diagnosis.  (Kevin Mazur/Getty Images)

The betrayal not lone ended Joel and Small's relationship astatine the clip but besides dissolved their band, Attila. Consumed by guilt and depression, Joel's idiosyncratic and nonrecreational beingness unraveled, arsenic helium began to spiral. 

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"I had nary spot to live. I was sleeping successful laundromats, and I was depressed, I deliberation to the constituent of astir being psychotic," Joel said successful the documentary. So, I figured, 'That’s it. I don’t privation to unrecorded anymore.' I was conscionable successful a batch of symptom and it was benignant of similar wherefore bent out? Tomorrow is going to beryllium conscionable similar contiguous is, and contiguous sucks. So, I conscionable thought I’d extremity it all."

Joel's sister shared successful the movie that she was moving arsenic a aesculapian adjunct and gave him sleeping pills to assistance with the restless nights. 

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"But Billy decided that helium was going to instrumentality each of them… helium was successful a coma for days and days and days," she emotionally said. "I went to spell spot him successful the hospital, and helium was laying there white arsenic a sheet. I thought that I’d killed him."

While Joel acknowledged that helium had been "very selfish" during the tumultuous time, helium recalled his archetypal thought erstwhile helium woke up from his coma was that helium wanted to effort termination again. 

During Joel's 2nd effort astatine suicide, helium ingested "lemon Pledge," a furnishings polish. Miraculously, helium survived some attempts, aft Small rushed him to the hospital. 

"Even though our relationship was blowing up, Jon saved my life," Joel explained successful the documentary.

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Fox News Digital's Stephanie Giang-Paunon contributed to this post.