American rock star Jon Bon Jovi saves woman about to jump off bridge in Nashville

Slowly, Jon Bon Jovi and his production assistant (whose name is unknown) approach, lean on the fence and talk to her. What do the American rock star and his colleague say to the woman about to jump off a bridge in Nashville (Tennessee)? Nobody knows. In any case, a few minutes later, his interlocutor crosses back to the other side of the railing of her own free will. And the singer of Keep The Faith (literally “keep the faith”) ended up hugging her.

The video of the scene, dating from Tuesday, September 10, was shared Wednesday by the police services of the American city, the birthplace of country music. Before being deleted by YouTube for non-compliance with the platform’s rules. On X (ex-Twitter), Authorities congratulate the 62-year-old singer: “Bravo to Jon Bon Jovi and his team for helping a woman on the Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge Tuesday night. Bon Jovi helped persuade her to step off the ledge above the Cumberland River to safety.”. Which led Police Chief John Drake to draw a lesson: “We all need to help each other keep safe”.

According to local media The Tennesseanthe Grammy-winning musician and his crew were on hand at the 3,100-foot-long building to film the music video for his song The People’s HouseThe bridge remained open to the public during filming. The newspaper said the star declined to speak to the media out of respect for the woman he helped.

Big-hearted rocker

The American artist, known for his hit Livin’ on a Prayer sold over 13 million copies worldwide, is not at his first act of charity. With his wife, Dorothea, he founded in the early 2000s the JBJ Soul Foundation, helping people suffering from hunger, poverty and homelessness. Through the latter, he opened a restaurant in New Jersey in 2011, Soul kitchen, where the customer decides the amount of the bill.

Two years later, when the crisis was strangling Spain and putting more than one in two young workers out of work, he drastically reduced the price of the ticket for his only concert in Madrid. Playing without making any profit. “Rock has always been for the people, and that means for everyone”he stressed. His commitment even led him, in 2010, to be appointed advisor by President Barack Obama with the mission of “mobilizing influential people in the private, voluntary and philanthropic sectors to help advance key policy goals”.

An impressive list of achievements to which this new story is added. And in all this business, The Tennessean – which was among the first media outlets to report the story – cannot help but notice a coincidence. The bridge on which the scene takes place has been named after its former editor-in-chief, John Seigenthaler, since 2014. In the 1950s, he too had stopped a man from jumping.