Rocker Jon Bon Jovi was praised by police for helping the woman
Theo Wargo
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US musician Jon Bon Jovi was celebrated this week not for a new song, but for helping a woman in distress, police said.
The Grammy-winning rocker was filming a video on the John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge in Nashville, Tennessee, on Tuesday when he and another person saw a woman standing outside the bridge’s railing and helped her to safety, US entertainment portal Deadline reported.
“Thank you to Jon Bon Jovi and his team for assisting a woman on the Seigenthaler Ped Bridge Tuesday night,” Nashville Police wrote on X on Wednesday.
“Bon Jovi helped persuade them to come down from the ledge above the Cumberland River to safety.”
In a video of the incident released by NBC news station WBIR, a woman in a blue T-shirt can be seen standing on the edge of the bridge outside the railing.
Bon Jovi, frontman of the New Jersey rock group of the same name, and another woman approach her and speak to her briefly before helping the woman climb over the railing onto the bridge.
Bon Jovi is then seen hugging the woman and later walking with her away from the scene of the incident to one end of the bridge.
With a series of catchy hits such as “Livin’ on a Prayer” and “You Give Love a Bad Name,” Bon Jovi’s band filled arenas with lots of pyrotechnics on their marathon tours in the 1980s.
