Bon Jovi intervenes to help save woman experiencing crisis in stunning moment caught on camera

Nashville, Tennessee - Jon Bon Jovi gave love a good name this week by potentially saving a life in a beautiful act of humanity caught on camera.

Jon Bon Jovi and another person helped talk a woman off the ledge of a bridge in Nashville, Tennessee, in a moment caught on camera.
Jon Bon Jovi and another person helped talk a woman off the ledge of a bridge in Nashville, Tennessee, in a moment caught on camera.  © John Nacion / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP

The Grammy-winning rocker was shooting a video on Tuesday on the John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge in Nashville, Tennessee when he and another person saw a woman standing outside the guard railing of the bridge and helped her to safety, Deadline reported.

"A shout out to Jon Bon Jovi & his team for helping a woman on the Seigenthaler Ped Bridge Tue night," the Nashville police department wrote on X on Wednesday.

"Bon Jovi helped persuade her to come off the ledge over the Cumberland River to safety."

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In a video of the incident published by NBC news affiliate WBIR, a woman can be seen in a blue T-shirt standing on the ledge of the bridge, outside the guard railing.

Bon Jovi, frontman of the rock group of the same name from New Jersey, and another woman walk toward her and briefly speak with her before they help the woman climb over the railing and onto the bridge.

Bon Jovi is then seen hugging the woman and later walking with her away from the scene of the incident toward one end of the bridge.

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Cover photo: John Nacion / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP

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