Jon Bon Jovi helps talk woman off ledge of Nashville bridge

Singer Jon Bon Jovi helped bring a woman back off the ledge of a pedestrian bridge in Nashville on Tuesday night, police said, in an incident captured on video.

The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said 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," the police said in a post on Facebook. "Bon Jovi helped persuade her to come off the ledge over the Cumberland River to safety."

In a security camera video taken on the bridge, shared by police but later taken down from YouTube, the woman is seen holding on to the railing. Then Bon Jovi and a woman with the film crew slowly approach her as the rest of the crew stands back.  After a brief conversation, Bon Jovi and his colleague help pull the woman back over the railing to safety. 

Bon Jovi, a 2018 inductee to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, is also involved in the work of his Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation, which focuses on assisting people struggling with poverty, hunger and homelessness.