The following article mentions overdose, mental heath struggles, and suicidal thoughts.
As he told Michale Strahan in a 2024ABC Newsspecial, “I’m a rock ‘n’ roll star.
I’m not a saint.
I’m Jon Bon Jovi; it was pretty good.”
Hey, at least he’s honest.
And I’m there for her when she falls," he said to Strahan.
The pair met in 1980 while attending Sayreville War Memorial High School in New Jersey.
Speaking toPeopleabout their first encounter, the rockstar shared, “She let me cheat off her in history.
I was immediately drawn to her from the minute I saw her, and that never changed.”
In 2023, the couple stopped by SiriusXM’s"The Howard Stern Show.
That is until she watched him perform.
“I just remember being impressed that you could sing,” she told Bon Jovi.
She added, “He was very good.”
The band was set to open up for Southside Johnny at a concert that pulled in thousands of people.
He trusted his gut and ultimately picked the show over prom.
Dorothea Hurley also picked the show over prom.
Two years later, the band had the No.
1 album in the country with their fourth record, “New Jersey.”
Bon Jovi and Hurley then became one of manyfamous couples who got married after breaking up.
In 1989, the couple eloped in Las Vegas.
Bon Jovi toldMen’s Healthit was a spur-of-the-moment decision, but it felt right.
He recalled telling Hurley about getting hitched, “‘I got an idea.
Why don’t we go right now?’
She said, ‘You’re out of your mind.’
[I] said, ‘Come on.
What’s better than this, right now, this moment?'”
Even the singer’s manager wasn’t pleased when he secretly eloped in Las Vegas.
I was that to the young girls in my time.
When I came back from Vegas, my manager was furious.
He was like, ‘America’s boy is now married … that’s not a good career move.’
The record company was also despondent.'"
“Looking back on it, the marriage was the greatest deal I ever made,” he said.
The couple welcomed four children
Dorothea Hurley andJon Bon Jovi share four kids.
The family is extremely close, having quarantined together due to the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
For about a month, our whole family was intact."
Hurley added, “Our focus has always been family first and making sure that people are doing well.
We like each other.
Thankfully, she recovered and phoned Bon Jovi to tell him what happened.
It was a total shock to the rockstar.
“It was horrible, a horrible moment,” he told theMirrorin 2013.
“It was my worst moment as a father.”
Stephanie was arrested and charged with multiple drug-related class A misdemeanors, but the charges were quickly dropped.
In a 2016Peopleinterview, Bon Jovi and Dorothea Hurley opened up again about their daughter’s overdose.
We dealt with it as a family.”
“We couldn’t get any closer,” he said.
Hurley also appeared to come to terms with her husband’s infidelity.
But, no matter what occurred in their relationship, Hurley stuck by Bon Jovi.
Through all of it, he was able to lean on his wife for support.
“She is the rock of my family, my career, my being.
The band eventually reunited and released 1992’s “Keep the Faith.”
His wife helped him cope with the devastating loss to the band.
Without her, I am not sure how I would have coped,” the rock star said.
Since its launch, 1,000 units of affordable housing have been built.
All restaurant locations are in Bon Jovi and Hurley’s home state of New Jersey.
You never know who you’re sitting next to.
That’s really not what this is about.
What you’re going to find is so much in common with your neighbor."
In April 2023,Bongiovi proposed to Brown, and she accepted despite a minor ring-related mishap.
The actor shareda black-and-white photoof her wearing an engagement ring while Bongiovi hugged her.
Jon Bon Jovi confirmed the big news on"Radio Andy.
“I don’t know if age matters.
Speaking toPeoplein 2016, the couple believe growing together is the key to success.
“She’s the glue,” the musician said.
“I’m the crazy visionary with all kinds of things flying, and the seams are all splitting.
I think because we grow at the same rate.
We grew equally and not in opposite directions.”
Four years later, celebrating their 31st wedding anniversary, the couple were still very much in love.
In an interview withPeople, Bon Jovi expressed that their thriving marriage was due to “mutual respect.”
He shared, “Having grown up togetherandgrown together.
And we really like each other.
We want to hang out.”
It’s a significant milestone for the famous couple, who have truly been through the wringer.
“It’s all about growing together.
But growing together, I think, is the key to happiness,” he said.
At this rate, it seems like the rock ‘n’ roll couple’srelationship will last a lifetime.
