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The Mirror talks to Jon Bon Jovi at Wembley Stadium as the band prepare to play an epic show there next year – as he opens up about being a grandad, his bond with Robbie Williams and life on the road\"JonJon Bon Jovi at Wembley Stadium(Image: PA)<\/p>\n

Singer Jon Bon Jovi <\/a>can\u2019t stop smiling when he talks about being a grandfather. The rock legend may have sold more than 130 million records and stood on some of the biggest stages in the world<\/a>. But nothing, it seems, compares to the moment his children started having children of their own.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s fantastic being a grandad… it\u2019s another chapter,\u201d he says. \u201cIn fact, my son Jesse and his wife are expecting in the next week, so I\u2019ll have two. If we got the phone call today, Dorothea\u2019s on the next plane home. It\u2019s literally any day now. We\u2019re so excited as we\u2019ll have two of them for the holidays. It\u2019ll be a unique Christmas<\/a> in the house.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the Livin\u2019 On A Prayer singer, 63, family life has always come first. Jon and wife Dorothea Hurley, his high-school sweetheart, married quietly in Las Vegas back in 1989 and have raised four children – Stephanie, 32, Jesse, 20, Jake, 23, and Romeo, 21. That close-knit family has now grown again: Jake and his wife Millie Bobby Brown recently adopted a baby girl<\/a>, making Jon a grandad for the first time.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Jon Bon Jovi’s hidden pain as he confides in pop star to help him return to stage<\/a>\" Jon Bon Jovi with son Jake, Millie Bobby Brown, and wife Dorothea(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve just kind of got used to dealing with my kids being grown,\u201d he laughs. \u201cI still see them as two and three, and then they\u2019re in their thirties and bring a baby around and you\u2019re like, wow, that\u2019s a reinvention. When Dorothea gets the call, there\u2019ll be gravel in my eyes. It\u2019s sort of the magic of life.\u201d<\/p>\n

That sense of perspective colours everything Jon says these days. Sitting inside Wembley Stadium<\/a>, where he\u2019ll return to perform in 2026, the star is open about how hard the last few years have been. He spent more than three years recovering from vocal-cord surgery that threatened to end his career altogether. The ordeal left him shattered,<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was daunting,\u201d he admits. \u201cMy livelihood was being taken away, and I didn\u2019t mind if I never saw a stadium full of people again. But I didn\u2019t want to lose my instrument. That was the sad part. It wasn\u2019t the sound of the applause, I wouldn\u2019t miss that.\u201d But the comeback is now well and truly on.<\/p>\n

The newly announced Forever tour<\/a> will see him play Edinburgh\u2019s Murrayfield on August 28, Dublin\u2019s Croke Park on August 30, and wrapping up with one night at Wembley Stadium in London on September 4. Sitting in a private box with Jon as we overlook the famous Wembley turf, the star seems galvanised by the prospect of getting out there on the road again.<\/p>\n

\"JonJon with Mirrorman Tom Bryant(Image: Stuart C. Wilson\/Getty Images for Live Nation)<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t be here talking to you if I didn\u2019t feel 100 percent,\u201d he insists. \u201cI would have pulled the plug last week if I wasn\u2019t up to it. There\u2019s just zero chance of that happening. I feel great.\u201d This week he also released the band\u2019s latest studio album, Forever (Legendary Edition) – a reimagined take of their songs from their 2024 album Forever with the likes of Bruce Springsteen<\/a>, Avril Lavigne and our own Robbie Williams<\/a> featuring on the tracklist.<\/p>\n

\u201cRobbie was the first one I asked, and he said yes, which gave me the strength to ask the second, third, fifth, and tenth,\u201d he says. I admit I hadn\u2019t realised the two of them were acquaintances but Jon surprises me when he speaks of his admiration for the former Take That<\/a> star.<\/p>\n

In fact, he sees a lot of himself in Robbie in the way both men have endured their own mental health struggles. Jon suffered a serious bout of depression in 2013, as well as periods during the 1990s.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt makes it easier for the average guy, or someone who\u2019s not as popular or famous, to know that Robbie went through it, I went through it, Bruce (Springsteen) is going through these things. It helps anyone watching to see that we all face real-life situations.\u201d Fellow New Jersey star Bruce, who opened up this week about suffering depression, features on the band\u2019s song Hollow Man.<\/p>\n

\u201cBruce had really taken a liking to that song when it was just a demo. He called me back the next day, and said he would love to do it,\u201d he says. The bond between the two men is clearly strong. He says he recently went with Bruce to watch Deliver Me From Nowhere, a biopic of his life featuring Jeremy Allen White in the title role.<\/p>\n

\"JonJon and son Jake and Millie Bobby Brown attend the tennis (Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was like being in a time machine,\u201d Jon says. \u201cIn the film, Bruce goes to the Stone Pony club on Sundays and he plays with this cover band. Two blocks over, on the same night, I used to play in a bar called The Fast Lane.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd my audiences dwindled every Sunday to the point where we go on at 7.30pm knowing that we\u2019re closing our bar by 9.30pm to all go to the Stone Pony because by midnight, he was going to show up and perform with this cover band.\u201d The film also features the studio where Jon used to be a \u201cgopher\u201d, but also where he recorded Runaway which transformed his life. \u201cIt was very surreal,\u201d he smiles.<\/p>\n

Jon\u2019s history with Wembley goes back decades. He played the final concerts at the old stadium before its demolition and helped open the O2. \u201cWe closed the old one, meant to open the new one,\u201d he says. \u201cWe stood outside with the arch, took the photographs, but the inside wasn\u2019t finished. They had to move 130,000 people up to Milton Keynes because the building wasn\u2019t ready. We were the guys that opened The O2. And here we are again – it\u2019s a nice bit of folklore.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for how long this new tour could go on, Jon remains non-committal. \u201cHonestly, I\u2019d like to just get my feet wet,\u201d he says of the live return. \u201cFor me, it\u2019s one thing at a time: gratitude, joy, health…that\u2019s it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bon Jovi\u2019s new album Forever (Legendary Edition) is available now, and their Forever Tour heads to Edinburgh\u2019s Murrayfield (28 Aug), Dublin\u2019s Croke Park (30 Aug) and London\u2019s Wembley Stadium (4 Sept). Tickets go on general sale Friday 31 October: www.bonjovi.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mirror talks to Jon Bon Jovi at Wembley Stadium as the band prepare to play an epic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[32508,15738,96,68559,128,56,54,55,13339],"class_list":{"0":"post-224124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-bon-jovi","9":"tag-bruce-springsteen","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-jon-bon-jovi","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom","16":"tag-wembley-stadium"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}