Odd Coincidence, Unlikely Hero: New Jersey Born Musician Jon Bon Jovi Prevents Nashville Woman’s Attempted Suicide – On National Suicide Prevention Day

On Tuesday, September 10th (National Suicide Prevention Day), In Nashville, Tennessee, singer Jon Bon Jovi helps a woman change her mind about suicide on a local pedestrian bridge

Some of our readers may know that Jon Bon Jovi is a native New Jerseyan, in the town just across the Outerbridge Crossing (and right next to Staten Island) – Perth Amboy.  The singer was in Nashville setting up for a music video shoot on the pedestrian bridge when he noticed the woman who was on the wrong side of the bridge’s railing, apparently contemplating suicide.

Maybe she was a fan, maybe he was just a kind person she didn’t know, but either way, he did something that other passersby on that very bridge did not do: he saw someone about to do something terrible, and he thought that maybe he could help.  So he did.  And the police in the local town have commended him for his kindness and for the help he gave the woman on the bridge.

It’s so easy to ignore another person in distress, and quite a bit more difficult to reach out and do something.  Jon Bon Jovi chose to do the latter, and he may have given a stranger a new outlook on life and a second chance when she almost had none.

Here is the video shared by the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department:

According to Good News Network:

“A young woman’s attempted suicide on a bridge in Nashville was interrupted at the last minute by an unlikely hero.

“She was halfway there, then ‘Livin’ on a Prayer’ singer Jon Bon Jovi appeared at her side and managed to talk her out of the life-ending decision.

“Pardon the pun….

“In the [surveillance] video, Bon Jovi and another member of his crew slowly approach before arriving at the young woman’s side. He leans over the railing and begins to speak some more, while his colleague steps behind her and begins to touch her shoulder.

The potential disaster appears to conclude with the young woman turning around and hugging Bon Jovi, before they help her back over the edge.”

According to the BBC’s reporting:

“Rock legend Jon Bon Jovi has been praised by police for helping a woman in distress who was on the ledge of a bridge in Nashville, Tennessee, on Tuesday night.

“The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department shared a video of the Bon Jovi frontman and his team who were at the John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge when the woman was standing precariously over the Cumberland River.

“Bon Jovi, 62, and others talked to the woman and helped her come back on to the bridge, police said.

“‘It takes all of us to help keep each other safe,’ Ch John Drake said in a brief statement…

“Accompanying the video on social media, Metro Nashville Police Department said: “A shout out to Jon Bon Jovi and his team for helping a woman on the Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge [on] Tuesday night.

“‘Bon Jovi helped persuade her to come off the ledge over the Cumberland River to safety.'”

Banner Image: Jon Bon Jovi approaches the woman on the bridge. Image Credit – Nashville PD video still