Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora watched new band doc together after fallout: ‘There was never a fight’
10.04.2024 - 20:39
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told ET in a story published Wednesday, referring to Sambora. “It was never about money, it was never about a girlfriend. He had issues … and he literally didn’t show up.
We were playing for 20,000 people and there’s a black hole on the stage.”Bon Jovi formed in 1983, fronted by Jon Bon Jovi. Currently, he’s still the frontman, David Bryan is the keyboardist, Tico Torres is the drummer, Hugh McDonald is the bassist, and Phil X is the guitarist. Sambora was the lead guitarist from 1983 until 2013, when he departed amid substance abuse issues.
(Original bassist Alec John Such left earlier, in 1994, and died in 2022 at age 70). In March, Bon Jovi said on Ultimate Classic Rock that he and Sambora were “Not in contact because he’s not in the organization any longer. [That] doesn’t mean that there’s not love forever, but it’s 11 years ago that he just didn’t show up anymore.”The guitarist is a dad to daughter Ava, whom he shares with ex-wife Heather Locklear.
The pair divorced in 2007 after 13 years of marriage.Additionally, Sambora has dealt with alcohol issues over the course of his career, having last entered rehab in 2011.The docuseries features 40 years of personal videos, and it also follows the band in 2022. Per Hulu, “The series relives the triumphs and setbacks, greatest hits, biggest disappointments and most public moments of friction.” Since leaving the band in 2013, Sambora has only played with them once, in 2018, at Bon Jovi’s induction ceremony into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Bon Jovi further told ET about Sambora, “Substance abuse or anxieties or single parenting, all those things weighed on him, losing his dad.