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Jon Bon Jovi is shining a lightweight on the place issues stand with Richie Sambora greater than 10 years after he stepped away from the band.
Throughout a Q&A at a screening of the band’s docuseries, Thank You Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story, Jon, 62, assured music followers there are not any arduous emotions about Richie’s choice.
“There was by no means a combat,” he instructed the viewers on April 10 through PEOPLE. “There was substance abuse, there was nervousness, there was being a single mother or father, there was loads of private points he was going via. However by no means to today did any of us, me or him or David [Bryan] or Tico [Torres], ever have a combat.”
Richie, 64, who beforehand struggled with painkillers and alcohol, determined to go away the group in the course of the band’s 2013 As a result of We Can tour.
On the time, he expressed a want to spend extra time together with his household. He shares 26-year-old daughter Ava Sambora together with his ex-wife Heather Locklear.
“I ain’t no angel,” Richie instructed PEOPLE in December 2020. “However I noticed, Ava wanted me to be round at that cut-off date. Household needed to come first, and that’s what occurred.”
Jon agreed that Richie wished to be house greater than he wished to be on the highway. However on the similar time, he admitted there was an adjustment after shedding his longtime music associate.
“There’s no animosity,” he mentioned throughout the Q&A. “An integral a part of my story for 3 of the 4 chapters was my right-hand man, requested to hitch my band and I used to be fortunate to have met him. However life went on.”
To today, the Grammy winner respects his former bandmate for prioritizing household — even when he misses rocking out together with his buddy.
“I respect the concept that he wished to remain house and lift his daughter,” he mentioned. “It’s unlucky for us and for the world, however I’m not mad about it.”
Thank You Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story is a four-part docuseries that chronicles the previous and unsure way forward for some of the recognizable bands on the planet.
Cameras started rolling in February 2022 and adopted the group’s journey as they found out what was subsequent. In accordance with Hulu, “the collection relives the triumphs and setbacks, biggest hits, greatest disappointments and most public moments of friction.”
Thank You Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story premieres April 26 on Hulu.