Jon Bon Jovi praised for talking woman off the ledge of a Nashville bridge
Police in Nashville, Tennessee, praised singer Jon Bon Jovi for helping prevent a tragedy by speaking to a woman who was on the ledge of a bridge Tuesday.
Police in Nashville, Tennessee, praised singer Jon Bon Jovi for helping prevent a tragedy by speaking to a woman who was on the ledge of a bridge Tuesday.
The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said Bon Jovi and his team were at the John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge as a woman stood precariously over the Cumberland River.
Bon Jovi and others talked to the woman and helped her come back onto the bridge, police said.
Jon Bon Jovi hugs a woman after helping talk her from a ledge of a pedestrian bridge in Nashville, Tenn., on Tuesday.Metropolitan Nashville Police Department via YouTube"It takes all of us to help keep each other safe," Police Chief John Drake said in a brief statement on X.
Police released security video of the interaction, in which a woman in blue holds on to the railing while she stands on the ledge. Other people pass her, and farther down the bridge, Bon Jovi's team appears to be setting up for a video or photo shoot.
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