Jon Bon Jovi praised for helping distressed woman off edge of Nashville bridge | Music

Jon Bon Jovi has been praised by Nashville’s police division after the rock star helped to speak a distressed lady off the sting of a bridge.

The incident came about on town’s Seigenthaler pedestrian bridge on Tuesday night, which spans the Cumberland River. In surveillance footage, the girl is seen to have climbed over the bridge’s railing and is stood on a ledge on the opposite aspect. Bon Jovi is pictured calmly participating in dialog with the girl, earlier than he and a companion assist the girl again over the railing. Later, Bon Jovi offers her a heat embrace and walks along with her again throughout the bridge.

“It takes all of us to assist maintain one another secure,” police chief John Drake mentioned in an announcement shared on X.

Bon Jovi was broadly praised on social media, with one person posting on his Instagram web page: “From everybody who has struggled, thanks for stopping.”

The Bon Jovi founder and frontman, 62, launched his sixteenth studio album with the group earlier this yr, Ceaselessly, which reached the US and UK High 5.

He has confronted difficulties along with his voice in recent times, with a broken vocal twine stopping him from touring. “I’m greater than able to singing once more. The bar is now: can I do two and a half hours an evening, 4 nights per week? The reply isn’t any,” he informed the Guardian in June.

Bon Jovi is thought for his social conscience: as a philanthropist he has helped these on low incomes, opening 4 retailers of his Soul Kitchen restaurant with a pay-what-you-can scheme, in addition to funding housing and well being initiatives.