Jon Bon Jovi rescues woman in trouble on bridge

The American musician was filming a music video on a bridge when he came to the aid of a woman who was about to jump off the bridge.

American rock singer Jon Bon Jovi was applauded this week, not for a new album, but for rescuing a desperate woman who was about to throw herself off a bridge in Nashville, in the southern United States, local authorities and the magazine reported. Deadline.

The star, known in particular for her hits Livin’ on a Prayer And It’s My Lifewas filming a video on the John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge on the evening of Tuesday, September 10, when he and another person 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“.

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, help her over the railing 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.