Jon Bon Jovi admits he 'got away with murder,' had '100 girls in my life' in early rock star days

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Jon Bon Jovi is fresh and consenting to admit that he indulged a spot successful nan stone prima manner aft Bon Jovi skyrocketed to fame successful nan 1980s.

While he began making love woman Dorothea Hurley successful 1980, he was not "a saint" arsenic nan set grew successful popularity, he confessed successful "Halfway There," an interview special he filmed pinch Michael Strahan for ABC. 

Still, he ne'er fto himself afloat bargain into his ain hype.

"I sewage distant pinch murder," Bon Jovi told Strahan of those early days. "I’m a stone and rotation star, I’m not a saint. You know, I’m not saying that location weren’t 100 girls successful my life – I’m Jon Bon Jovi. It was beautiful good."

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Jon Bon Jovi admits he was not "a saint" successful his early stone prima days. (Matt Stone/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images / Bennett Raglin/Getty Images for Jackie Robinson Foundation)

David Bryan, Tico Torres, Jon Bon Jovi, Alec John Such, and Richie Sambora

Bon Jovi backstage earlier a capacity astatine nan Rosemont Horizon, Rosemont, Illinois, May 20, 1984. Pictured are, from near to right, David Bryan, Tico Torres, Jon Bon Jovi, Alec John Such and Richie Sambora. (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images)

He continued, "But if you deliberation I was ever going to jeopardize my - thing for believing nan narcissist successful maine was real? What a stupid point to do. What benignant of excesses does a man request that’s going to substance that fire? It’s conscionable not worthy it."

Bon Jovi released their first medium successful 1984, erstwhile nan vocalist and Hurley were already an established couple. By nan clip nan 2 wed successful 1989, he was, arsenic Strahan put it, a "sex symbol."

While Bon Jovi did not spell into item astir any past exploits, he was speedy to singing his wife's praises.

"There is nary uncertainty successful my mind that this world revolves because of her," he said. "Because of what she did to support nan kids right, what she does to support maine right, what we do together to support it right. No uncertainty astir it."

Dorothea Hurley, Stephanie Rose Bongiovi and Jon Bon Jovi

Jon Bon Jovi and Dorothea pinch their girl Stephanie Rose Bongiovi astatine nan 66th Grammy Awards Pre-Grammy Gala. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images)

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"She’s surely not acrophobic to telephone maine retired connected something," he went on, "but she’s besides location erstwhile I fall. And I’m location for her erstwhile she falls. No matter wherever I went successful my career, nan ups aliases nan downs, we went location together."

The "Bad Medicine" vocalist explained that "growing together is integral" successful a marriage, adding that he and Hurley "came from nothing, aforesaid hometown, aforesaid precocious school, aforesaid group of peripheral friends."

The couple’s wedding was a Las Vegas elopement – nary 1 successful their lives, particularly not nan fans, knew that they intended to get married. 

"It was beatified hellhole from nan infinitesimal we started telling anybody," Bon Jovi remembered. "My parents, Doc [McGhee, nan band’s head astatine nan time], nan band. You deliberation group would beryllium happy for us!"

Jon Bon Jovi and Dorothea pinch their boy Jake Bongiovi and his fiancée Millie Bobby Brown. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)

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In a caller question and reply pinch Fox News Digital, Bon Jovi opened up much astir nan existent authorities of his marriage, explaining, "I don't deliberation that we request rules. I deliberation it's conscionable nan communal admiration society. I deliberation it's arsenic elemental arsenic that. You aftermath up successful nan greeting excited to beryllium pinch each other. And you respect each other. And you respect each other. It's a pleasance to do. It's a pleasance to be."

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"She’s nan glue," he said. "I’m nan crazy visionary pinch each kinds of things flying, and nan seams are each splitting. She’s nan 1 pursuing maine pinch nan glue and nan thread and needle, keeping it each together."

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"Somehow, I became nan poster boy for a long-married stone star. But I’ll judge nan mantle because I’m truthful happy."

Dorothea Bongiovi and Jon Bon Jovi kissing

Jon Bon Jovi says Dorthea is "the glue" successful their marriage. (Photo by Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images for Disney+)

Emily Trainham is an intermezo editor for Fox News Digital.

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