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