Alexa Ray Joel Took Bad Family Vacation Days Before OD

Billy Joel's daughter's hospitalization following an apparent suicide attempt occurred just days after the 23-year-old singer returned home from a "dysfunctional family getaway" with her supermodel mother Christie Brinkley, the Post reports.

Alexa Ray Joel spent nine days in Turks and Caicos with Brinkley — and if you trust the tabloid's unnamed sources, it doesn't sound like they had a good time. One anonymous tipster told the paper "[t]hey have knock-down, drag-out fights regularly over issues relating to Billy Joel," while another said Brinkley often insults the Piano Man in front of her daughter. "She would tell Alexa that her father was an alcoholic and that she had her father's genes and that she might be an alcoholic, too," said a former family employee, who claims Brinkley often nags her daughter about her weight. In one instance, the anonymous source said that Brinkley grabbed a brownie from her daughter when she was 10 years old, chewed it up, spit it in a garbage can, and said: "This is how you eat a brownie without gaining weight."

Joel has canceled her performances this week and is said to be staying with her father. She reportedly took a non-lethal dosage of a homeopathic antihistamine on Saturday following a break-up with her bandmate and boyfriend Jimmy Riot, who told the paper: "I hope she's OK. I've been worried and upset." Yesterday, her father said she was "feeling much better."