Jon Bon Jovi Talks Woman Out Of Jumping Off Nashville Bridge

By Tom Tapp, Denise Petski

September 11, 2024 4:48pm

Musician Jon Bon Jovi is being praised for helping save a woman who was hanging off the ledge of a Nashville bridge Tuesday night.

Metro Nashville Police said the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer was taking part in a video shoot on the John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge overlooking the Cumberland River in Nashville, when he and another individual saw a woman standing outside the safety railing looking distraught.

A video released by police, which has seen been removed, showed Bon Jovi andthe other individual approach the woman and begin talking to her. After a minute or so, Bon Jovi walks to the woman’s other side and the pair help her back onto the pedestrian walkway.

Others, apparently from his crew, walk over after the woman is safe. Bon Jovi is seen embracing her in a hug then left the bridge with her.

“It takes all of us to help keep each other safe,” said Chief of Police John Drake in a statement posted to social media.

Jon Bon Jovi is founder of the JBJ Soul Foundation, which works to break the cycle of hunger, poverty and homelessness through developing partnerships, creating programs and providing grant funding to support innovative community benefit organizations, according to its mission statement.

“Nearly two decades ago when I formed the JBJ Soul Foundation and JBJ Soul Kitchens, I saw firsthand and continue to see today the impact of charitable, community-based work,” Bon Jovi said in a statement earlier this year. “I know this for sure: Helping one’s community is helping one’s self.” 

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