Grammy Award-winning musician Jon Bon Jovi was filming on a bridge when he noticed a woman standing on the edge and he convinced her to climb over the railing.
US musician Jon Bon Jovi was praised this week not for a new song, but for helping a woman in need, police said.
According to US entertainment media Deadline, the Grammy Award-winning rock singer was filming a video on the John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge in Nashville, Tennessee on Tuesday when he and another individual spotted a woman standing outside the bridge's railing and evacuated her to safety.
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Bon Jovi spots woman standing on ledge
“We would like to thank Jon Bon Jovi and his team for helping rescue a woman on the Siegenthaler Pedestrian Bridge on Tuesday night,” Nashville Police wrote to X on Wednesday.
“Bon Jovi convinced her to jump off a cliff over the Cumberland River and get to safety.”
In video of the incident released by NBC news affiliate WBIR, a woman wearing a blue T-shirt can be seen standing on the edge of the bridge outside the guardrail.
Bon Jovi, frontman of the New Jersey rock group of the same name, and another woman walked over to her, talked for a moment, and then helped her climb over the railing and onto the bridge.
Bon Jovi is then seen embracing the woman before walking with her away from the scene towards the edge of the bridge.
With a string of instantly memorable hits like “Livin' on a Prayer” and “You Give Love a Bad Name,” the band packed arenas with firework-filled marathon tours in the 1980s.
Author: Agence France-Presse
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