Jon Bon Jovi, American rock star known in particular for his hits Livin’on a Prayer et It’s My Lifewas filming a video Tuesday evening, September 10, 2024, on the John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge in Nashville, in the southern United States, when, with another person, he spotted a woman on the edge of the bridge, on the other side of the guardrail.
“Bon Jovi persuaded her to climb down from the ledge above the Cumberland River to safety,” Nashville, Tennessee, police said in a message posted Wednesday on the social network X, shooting him “a tip of the hat” to have it “rescued”.
On the wrong side of the safety rail
In a video of the incident published by the local channel WBIRa lady in a blue T-shirt can be seen standing on the edge of the bridge, on the wrong side of the safety rail.
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.