Jon Bon Jovi‘s marriage to highschool sweetheart, Dorothea Hurley, has been making headlines over the previous few weeks. Whereas talking with ABC’s Michael Strahan for the community’s current “Midway There” particular, the 62-year-old rock star acquired candid about his infidelity throughout the early days of his relationship with Dorothea, 61.
“I’m a rock ‘n’ roll star. I’m not a saint,” the “Livin’ On a Prayer” hitmaker defined. “I’m Jon Bon Jovi. It was fairly good,” joking that he acquired “away with homicide” and was “not saying that there weren’t 100 ladies in [his] life.”
“However in the event you assume I used to be ever going to jeopardize … something for believing the narcissist in me was actual? What a silly factor to do,” Jon emphasised, referring to the considered destroying his marriage. “What sort of excesses does a person want that’s going to gas that fireplace? It’s simply not value it.”
Jon additionally praised Dorothea for not being “afraid to name [him] out on one thing” and is “additionally there when [he falls].”
“And I’m there for her when she falls,” he doubled down. “Irrespective of the place I went in my profession, the ups or the downs, we went there collectively.”
Earlier this month, the “It’s My Life” musician stirred up fairly a buzz after describing the “great clichés of rock stardom,” per The Impartial.
“It’s about by no means mendacity about having been a saint, however not being a idiot sufficient to [mess] up the house life, both,” he defined.
This wasn’t the primary time that Jon has opened up about his infidelity. Throughout an interview with Greatest Life journal in 2007, he identified that he didn’t “take a look at this week’s sizzling starlet and take into consideration buying and selling in or buying and selling up.” He additionally insisted that he didn’t “have a mistress on the aspect or one other household throughout city.”
Jon has been selling his Hulu doc, Thank You Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story, which dropped final week. The doc explores Jon’s story along with his band, Bon Jovi, and his music profession. He and Dorothea began courting in 1980. Though they briefly cut up in 1985, they reconciled and eloped in Las Vegas in 1989. The spouses share kids Stephanie Rose, Jesse, Jake Hurley and Romeo Jon Bongiovi.
Jon’s son Jake, 21, has been within the highlight due to his relationship with fiancée Millie Bobby Brown. He and the Stranger Issues actress, 20, acquired engaged in April 2023.