NJ’s Jon Bon Jovi Helps Talk Down Woman On Ledge

NASHVILLE, TN — Music icon Jon Bon Jovi is being hailed a hero, after he helped talk down a distraught woman who was standing on the ledge of a bridge in downtown Nashville.

The Middlesex County native was reportedly filming a music video on the Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge, which spans the Cumberland River, on Tuesday. Video shows several people walk by the woman, who was on the edge of the bridge looking at the river, when Bon Jovi approaches her and leans on the rail to get her attention.

A video shared by Metropolitan Nashville Police has been removed from YouTube, though media outlets including WKRN-TV shared a clip of the singer-songwriter and a member of his film crew talking to the woman, then pulling her back onto the bridge.

Bon Jovi continued speaking with her, and eventually gave the woman a hug.

The police department gave a shout-out to Bon Jovi and his team for helping persuade her to come off the ledge to safety.

“It takes all of us to help keep each other safe,” police chief John Drake said in a social media post.

According to WKRN, first responders took the 36-year-old woman to a local hospital for evaluation and treatment.