Jon Bon Jovi's drugs nightmare as daughter, 19, overdosed on heroin
01.06.2024 - 11:59
/ ok.co.uk
Rock legend Jon Bon Jovi was shaken awake at 2am by a phone call that every parent fears. It was 2012 and his daughter Stephanie, then a teenager, was on the line from the hospital. She began with a reassuring "I'm all right", but quickly followed with the harrowing news that she had suffered a heroin overdose.
"It was horrible, a horrible moment," Jon recounted. "It was my worst moment as a father." "The first thing she said, I'm all right but then she said this is what happened. You wake up, you shake it off and put your shoes on and say OK, I am on the way home." In November 2012, police were summoned to Stephanie's dormitory at Hamilton College after she was discovered unconscious.
In her room at the prestigious institution, a small quantity of heroin was found, reports the Mirror. Stephanie, who is now 30 years old, was treated in hospital and subsequently, charges against her and a friend, Ian Grant, aged 21, were dropped under a local law that prevents prosecution of those who have experienced drug overdoses.
The incident was a close call for Stephanie, but her famous father, now 62, pointed out that such situations are more common than many assume. Speaking previously about what happened, Jon – lead singer with Bon Jovi for 40 years – expressed his shock over her drug use, clarifying that his frequent travels were not to blame.
He said to the Mirror: "We went through something that a lot of parents do, many more than I thought. Many more people who have been in my life that I had no idea they had been through it with their own children at one point or another." "There's a lot of pressure on this generation.
They have a lot easier access to things than yours or my generation had. She was by no means sticking needles
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