Not a saint: Look back at Jon Bon Jovi and wife Dorothea Hurleys ups and downs

It’s his life. Jon Bon Jovi, 62, is a rare rocker who doesn’t have a lothario reputation, as he’s been married to his high school sweetheart, Dorothea Hurley, for 34 years. But, in an interview published on Sunday, he told the Independent, that he hasn’t been “a saint” all these decades. “These are all the wonderful clichés of rock stardom.It’s about never lying about having been a saint, but not being a fool enough to f – – k up the home life, either.”He told the outlet that their long marriage is in part thanks to her “tolerance” when he strayed.

 Here’s everything to know about the couple. The “You Give Love a Bad Name” singer met his wife when they were both students attending Sayreville War Memorial High School in New Jersey. “She let me cheat off her in history,” he told People in 2020.“I was immediately drawn to her from the minute I saw her and that never changed.”During a visit to the Howard Stern Show in 2023, Hurley said, “I remember somebody told me a story and then I said, ‘Well, my boyfriend’s gonna be a rock star,’ and they were like, ‘Good luck with that.’ “However, their path wasn’t smooth all along.

They broke up in 1985, and during that time, Bon Jovi dated actress Diane Lane for five months, as Lane said on “Watch What Happens Live.” After that, he got back together with Hurley. They eloped at the Graceland Chapel in Las Vegas in 1989 – three years after he rose to global fame with the band’s breakout album, 1986’s “Slippery When Wet.” “We had the No.1 album, the No.

1 single, and we were playing three nights at the Forum in LA,” he told Men’s Health in 2010. “I turned to Dorothea and said, ‘I got an idea.Why don’t we go right now?’ She said, ‘You’re out of your mind.’ I said, ‘Come on.

What’s better than this, right now, this moment?’ And so we ran off to Las Vegas.Didn’t tell a soul.”He also later told the Mirror, “It was like ...