Singer Jon Bon Jovi helped pull a woman back from the edge of a pedestrian bridge in Nashville Tuesday night, police said, in an incident caught on video.
The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said on social media Wednesday that the musician and his team helped a woman on the John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge.
“Shout out to Jon Bon Jovi and his team for helping a woman in Nashville,” the police said in a post on Facebook. “Bon Jovi helped persuade her to get off the ledge over the Cumberland River to safety.”
The rocker behind hits like “Livin’ on a Prayer” and “Wanted Dead or Alive” was on the footbridge filming a music video when he saw the woman holding on to the railing over the river, according to a source close to Bon Jovi.
In a security camera video taken on the bridge, shared by police but later taken down from YouTube, the woman is seen holding the railing. Then Bon Jovi and a woman with the film crew slowly approach her while the rest of the crew stands back. After a short conversation, Bon Jovi and his colleague help pull the woman back over the railing to safety. Part of the video can be seen in reporting from CBS Nashville affiliate WFTV.
Bon Jovi, a 2018 inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, is also involved in the work of his Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation, which focuses on helping people struggling with poverty, hunger and homelessness.
The band Bon Jovi has sold over 120 million albums and performed more than 2,600 concerts around the world, according to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The Grammy-winning band released his 16th studio album, “Forever”, earlier this year.