Jon Bon Jovi’s marriage with wife Dorothea is not a bed of roses: It’s a ‘challenge’ every day
Jon Bon Jovi’s marriage with wife Dorothea Hurley is not always a bed of roses. The musician opened up about their relationship while promoting his upcoming Hulu docuseries, “Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story.”
On “Good Morning America,” he was asked about his son Jake Bongiovi and what advice he would give to him and his fiancée, “Stranger Things” star Millie Bobby Brown.
“You don’t think they’re going to listen, do you?” he joked to co-host Lara Spencer on Thursday.
“I mean, the magic for me has just been growing together with Dorothea.”
He added: “Every day is a challenge and change, but if you’re growing together, hopefully things will work out.”
When Spencer, 54, noted Jake, 21, and Brown, 20, “seem so happy,” the rock star noted: “I’m aware. They’re wonderful.”
He also revealed the couple will get “married in the near future.”
The “Livin’ on a Prayer” singer’s latest interview comes after making eyebrow-raising remarks about not being “a saint” during his 35-year marriage.
“These are all the wonderful clichés of rock stardom,” he told the Independent earlier this month. “It’s about never lying about having been a saint, but not being a fool enough to [mess] up the home life either.”
The pair tied the knot at the Graceland Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas in 1989 and went on to welcome four children together — daughter Stephanie, 30, and sons Jesse, 29, Jake, 21, and Romeo, 20.
Bon Jovi, 62, said their relationship survived because they’re in “a mutual admiration society” and were “lucky enough to have grown up together,” but also credited a degree of tolerance on her part.
He further said that his inner circle weas initially “shocked” when he eloped with her.
“It shocked a lot of people — shocked about everybody: the band, management, agents, lawyers, parents, you name it,” he recently recalled to People magazine. “It’s a shame because it should have been a beautiful moment, but after we did it, people were trying to take it away, until I stood up and went, ‘Wait a minute, why are we living our life for anyone else?’ And 35 years later, we’re still married.”
“We were in Los Angeles, California, the band was on the road on the ‘New Jersey’ tour, and if you opened up the curtains of my hotel room, there’s a big billboard of the five of us [Bon Jovi band members] staring into my window,” Bon Jovi went on. “My girlfriend, who was my fiancée at the time, we had a night off, and I said, ‘I need a higher high — I got an idea. Let’s go to Vegas now.’ And she said, ‘Now?’ I said, ‘Now.’”
He recalled that his manager was “furious” over his decision.
“He was like, ‘America’s boy is now married … That’s not a good career move.’ The record company was also despondent,” he said. “It was like Harry Styles or Justin Timberlake getting married.”
