Christie Brinkley & daughter victims of terrible tab smear
10:30 am, December 11th, 2009
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The New York Post has done it again with a vicious and beyond inaccurate report titled, “Alexa’s tormented childhood” about Christie Brinkley and Alexa Ray Joel.
According to the paper, “Christie Brinkley ignored early signs that daughter Alexa Joel was becoming a troubled, lonely and isolated child,” and that it culminated with her reported suicide attempt.
How did they come up with this wildly mistaken theory?
The Post dredged up court papers from Brinkley’s divorce from Billy Joel back in 1995. At the time, a former nany, Alzirene Vianna, said Alexa Ray seemed “withdrawn,” “angry” and, at times, it “was like talking to a wall.”
Astounding.
The Post is actually using court papers from a divorce nearly 15 years ago – a time when it was difficult for an eight-year-old girl to see her folks split up – as evidence that today she has a poor relationship with her mom and allegedly attempted suicide as a result?!
Disgraceful.
Gossip Cop would be more concerned if an eight-year-old was not “angry” and withdrawn” as her parents went through a divorce.
The Post’s piece today on Brinkley and the younger Joel is not only mean-spirited, but it’s a desperate attempt to connect fairly spread out dots. The result is vile and way off base.
Just the other day, Brinkley and Billy Joel acknowledged in a joint statement that their daughter’s “dangerous actions” was a result of “suffering a devastating heartbreak.”
Gossip Cop knows for a fact that the young woman has struggled with her breakup from musician Jimmy Riot.
But rather than giving Alexa and her family a little peace as she deals with some larger issues, the Post manufactured a bogus story, and incredibly brought up her behavior as an eight-year-old when her entire family was going through a tough time.
It was only a few days ago that the New York Post printed an untrue story titled, “Alexa’s holiday in hell with mom,” in which they wrongly claimed the recent incident with Alexa stemmed from “a dysfunctional family getaway with her mom.”
On the contrary, Alexa enjoyed their trip to the Turks and Caicos islands. Not only had Brinkley written about how good a time they had on vacation on her Facebook page, but Alexa e-mailed a mutual friend of ours to say she was having the “best time,” and that she had penned a song while away with her mom.
Billy Joel and Brinkley previously dismissed the Post‘s “Holiday in Hell” story, publicly stating, “Consider the source.” Indeed.
As we’ve said before, Gossip Cop has known Brinkley for close to two decades — almost the entirety of Alexa Ray’s life — and the supermodel is an attentive supermom. The last time we saw her – about three months ago – she was having dinner with, that’s right, Alexa.
Rather that printing inaccurate stories — and cherry-picking decade and a half old quotes from a former nanny, already termed a “disgruntled employee” by Brinkley’s lawyer, the Post should simply leave Alexa and her parents alone to privately deal with this incredibly private situation.
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