Jon Bon Jovi praised for persuading woman to come off bridge ledge in Nashville

Jon Bon Jovi talked a woman down from a bridge (Ian West/PA)

Jon Bon Jovi persuaded a woman to come down off the ledge of a bridge in Nashville, Tennessee, police have said.

The American singer-songwriter, 62, and his team were on the John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge, by the Cumberland River, when they spotted the woman who officers said was in a “distressed” state.