Police video of the incident was briefly available on YouTube. It captured the moment a production assistant began talking to a woman wearing a blue shirt and holding onto a railing as she stood on the railing of a bridge.
During the exchange, the Bon Jovi star, 62, slowly and calmly approached, waved at the woman and then began chatting with her.
Jon Bon Jovi saved a woman
The tense moment came when the woman turned around and came face to face with Bon Jovi and his assistant. The rocker then helped her safely over the railing. Afterwards, Bon Jovi gave the woman a comforting hug. A few minutes later, police footage shows Bon Jovi walking off the bridge with her.
“Thank you to Jon Bon Jovi and his crew for helping the woman on the Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge. On Tuesday night, Bon Jovi helped coax her down from the ledge over the Cumberland River to safety,” reads a message posted by the Metro Nashville Police Department on social media.
Tennessee Police Chief John Drake said: “It’s up to all of us to keep each other safe.
Bon Jovi filmed the music video for their song “The People’s House” on the bridge, which remained open to the public during filming.
According to local news site The Tennessean, Bon Jovi and his wife, Dorothea, are the founders of the JBJ Soul Foundation, which routinely helps people in crisis, so Bon Jovi has received training in mediation and how to talk to people in difficult situations.
In 2014, the bridge that spans the Cumberland River between downtown Nashville and Nissan Stadium was named after legendary Tennessean publisher John Seigenthaler, who stopped a man from jumping off the bridge in the 1950s.
A representative for the band said the singer would not comment on the incident.
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