Singer Billy Joel spent time at the Betty Ford clinic for alcoholism treatment in 2005.

Billy Joel leaves US rehab clinic

Singer Billy Joel has left a Californian rehabilitation clinic where he was being treated for alcohol abuse. His publicist confirmed that the 55-year-old had now checked out of the Betty Ford clinic, in Rancho Mirage, where he had spent 30 days.

Photo taken on November 14, 2007.

Piano Man Finds Inner Harmony

“I’m just not drinking,” says the Piano Man - who had struggled with a love of bottles of red and bottles of white. “I don’t know if I will never have a glass of wine again for the rest of my life, but right now I am not taking any chances. “There was a time in my life when I was drinking too much, and so I have stopped,”

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