Singer Alexa Ray Joel Hospitalized After Drug Overdose
The NYP is reporting that Alexa Ray Joel, the 23-year-old musician daughter of Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley, was found by her roommate this afternoon after an apparent overdose of sleeping pills. She was rushed to St. Vincent’s hospital and is now in stable condition according to her publicist. The police are treating the incident as a suicide attempt
“She is stable and her doctors are assessing her needs,” a rep for Alexa Ray and her father, Billy Joel, confirmed to PEOPLE.
The singer was rushed to St. Vincent’s Hospital after a caller placed a call to 911 Saturday afternoon, according to the New York Post.
Joel, who was raised in Sag Harbor, a village on Long Island, attended New York University for a short time before dropping out to focus on her music career, according to her MySpace page.
She self-released a short album in 2006 and debuted a new song, “Invisible,” in 2009. According to Hollywood Life, Joel released a six-song EP in 2006 titled Sketches, but never gained the momentum in her career she had hoped for. It’s currently listed at #25,454 in music sales.
She now lives in Manhattan and had performances scheduled in the city next week, including at the New York Stock Exchange tree lighting ceremony.
Fire Department records indicate that paramedics responded to the West Village building where Joel lives at 12:21 p.m. Saturday and transported one woman to St. Vincent’s Hospital. The fire department declined to identify the patient.
The singer is scheduled to perform twice on December 10 in New York City, according to her Twitter page.
