Jon Bon Jovi Admits He Wasn't Always a 'Saint' During His 35-Year Marriage
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Jon Bon Jovi is about to celebrate his 35th wedding anniversary with his high school sweetheart, Dorothea Hurley, whom he married at the Graceland Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas on April 29, 1989. The longevity of their marriage is notable in that the couple started dating before the 62-year-old found international fame with his band, Bon Jovi, and they've weathered decades of touring and even share four children together.
However, in an interview ahead of the April 26 release of his Hulu docuseries, Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story, the rocker admits that doesn't mean he's always been a "saint" throughout their marriage.
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Bon Jovi told The Independent that he credits their success as a couple to "a mutual admiration society, and being lucky enough to have grown up together," but that it's required a heavy dose of patience on Dorothea's part.
"These are all the wonderful clichés of rock stardom," he explained. "It’s about never lying about having been a saint, but not being a fool enough to f--k up the home life, either."
In fact, the Bon Jovi hit 1993 single "Bed of Roses" is allegedly about his infidelities while on the road, as the ballad serves as a plea for redemption.
Though, Bon Jovi is fortunate in that one trapping of fame that passed him by is drugs.
"It was smoking something that was laced with something else, and I remember feeling out-of-body high and thinking, ‘I don’t like this. I don’t feel comfortable with this,'" he said in the same interview. "It was scary, and I was so young that I was glad I had that sort of ‘scared straight’ moment."
Bon Jovi noted with a laugh that when he suffered an atrophied vocal cord in 2022, that he "couldn’t blame it on putting anything up his nose," adding that the only thing that’s ever been up his nose is "his finger."
