American rock singer Jon Bon Jovi was applauded this week, not for a new album, but for rescuing a woman in distress from the edge of a bridge in Nashville, in the southern United States, local authorities and Deadline magazine reported.
The star, known for his hits “Livin’ on a Prayer” and “It’s My Life,” was filming a video Tuesday night on the John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge when he and another person spotted a woman on the edge of the bridge, on the other side of the guardrail.
“Bon Jovi talked her into jumping off the ledge above the Cumberland River to safety,” Nashwille, Tennessee, police said in a message posted Wednesday on the social network X, giving him “a tip of the hat” for “rescuing” her.
In a video of the incident released by local station WBIR, a woman in a blue T-shirt can be seen standing on the edge of the bridge, on the wrong side of the guardrail.
Bon Jovi and another woman then approach her, and after briefly speaking to her, they help her over the parapet back onto the bridge, before the singer picks her up and walks with her to the end of the bridge.
Known for his charitable commitments, Bon Jovi, 62, claims to have sold more than 130 million albums since his debut in 1983. With his band, he sold out venues in the 1980s.
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