Watch Jon Bon Jovi approach a woman from the edge of the Nashville Bridge
Jon Bon Jovi was shooting a music video in downtown Nashville when he encountered a woman in crisis.
Courtesy of Metro Nashville Police Department
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Rock star Jon Bon Jovi and his team rescued a woman who fell from a ledge on the Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge in downtown Nashville on Tuesday, Metro Nashville Police said in a social media post.
Bon Jovi filmed a music video for his song “The People’s House” on the bridge, and the bridge remained open to the public during filming. In a video posted by MNPD, a woman in a blue shirt can be seen standing over the edge of the bridge with her arms wrapped around the railing.
The video shows Bon Jovi and a production assistant walking along the bridge that spans the Cumberland River between downtown Nashville and Nissan Stadium and greeting the woman on the ledge, with the musician leaning on the railing.
The production assistant starts talking to the woman before Bon Jovi comes in.
The woman then turns to Bon Jovi and the production assistant and they help her over the railing.
Once they are safe, the woman and Bon Jovi face each other and the Grammy winner hugs her before the group walks away.
Out of respect for the private citizen who was experiencing a moment of crisis, Bon Jovi declined to speak to the media in detail.
Bon Jovi and his wife Dorothea are founders of the JBJ Soul Foundation, which regularly helps people in times of crisis such as hunger and homelessness. So Bon Jovi has training in talking to people in difficult situations.
In 2014, the bridge was named after legendary Tennessean editor John Seigenthaler, who stopped a man from jumping off the bridge in the 1950s.
“We all need to do our part to protect each other,” MNPD Chief John Drake said on social media.
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