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Jon Bon Jovi‘s marriage to high school sweetheart, Dorothea Hurley, has been making headlines over the past few weeks. While speaking with ABC’s Michael Strahan for the community’s current “Halfway There” particular, the 62-year-old rock star received candid about his infidelity in the course of 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 pretty good,” joking that he received “away with murder” and was “not saying that there weren’t 100 girls in [his] life.”
“But if you think I was ever going to jeopardize … anything for believing the narcissist in me was real? What a stupid thing to do,” Jon emphasised, referring to the considered destroying his marriage. “What kind of excesses does a man need that’s going to fuel that fire? It’s just not worth it.”
Jon additionally praised Dorothea for not being “afraid to call [him] out on something” and is “also there when [he falls].”
“And I’m there for her when she falls,” he doubled down. “No matter where I went in my career, the ups or the downs, we went there together.”
Earlier this month, the “It’s My Life” musician stirred up fairly a buzz after describing the “wonderful clichés of rock stardom,” per The Independent.
“It’s about never lying about having been a saint, but not being a fool enough to [mess] up the home life, either,” he defined.
This wasn’t the primary time that Jon has opened up about his infidelity. During an interview with Best Life journal in 2007, he identified that he didn’t “look at this week’s hot starlet and think about trading in or trading up.” He additionally insisted that he didn’t “have a mistress on the side or another family across town.”
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 relationship in 1980. Although 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 Things actress, 20, received engaged in April 2023.