Alexa Ray says dad Billy Joel is 'a fighter' and 'doing great' since brain disorder diagnosis

Billy Joel’s girl Alexa Ray Joel is arrogant helium is taking his wellness seriously.

“He’s doing carnal therapy regularly and he’s doing great. He’s mislaid value arsenic he’s connected his diet,” the singer-songwriter told the Hollywood Reporter successful an interrogation published Thursday. “I’m truthful arrogant of him. He’s specified a trooper, truthful resilient and committed to being steadfast and proactive. He’s a fighter. He’s ever been a combatant and talks successful his documentary astir however life’s similar a fight.”

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

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

“I cognize a batch of radical are disquieted astir maine and my health, but I’m okay,” helium told People. “What I person is thing precise fewer radical cognize about, including me, nary substance however overmuch you effort to probe it. I’m doing my champion to enactment with it and to retrieve from it.”

“I consciousness good,” helium 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 with ex-wife Christie Brinkley, besides shared that her begetter had downplayed his infamous autumn during a show of “It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me” astatine a amusement past twelvemonth successful Connecticut to support her from worrying.

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

On Thursday, Billy soaked successful the emotion astatine a sold-out performance 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.