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Jon Bon Jovi hugs woman after talking her off bridge ledge in Nashville

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Jon Bon Jovi hugs woman after talking her off bridge ledge in Nashville

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Jon Bon Jovi hugged a distraught woman after he and his team helped talk her off the ledge of a bridge in Nashville, Tennessee.

Police said the incident occurred on the Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge over the Cumberland River on Tuesday, 10 September.

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