Jon Bon Jovi helps distressed woman off edge of bridge – WATCH

US musician Jon Bon Jovi was celebrated this week, not for a new song, but for helping a woman in need, according to police.

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 embracing the woman and later walking with her away from the scene of the incident toward one end of the bridge.

With a string of quickly memorable hits such as “Livin’ on a Prayer” and “You Give Love a Bad Name,” Bon Jovi’s band packed arenas in the 1980s on their marathon, pyrotechnic-fueled tours.

By Garrin Lambley © Agence France-Presse