Bon Jovi Opens Up About Daughter's Heroin OD

Calls it a 'tragedy' but says 'we're good'

By Kate Seamons, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 22, 2012 8:47 AM CST

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Bon Jovi Opens Up About Daughter's Heroin OD — Jon Bon Jovi, center, with daughter Stephanie Rose Bon Jovi, left, and wife Dorothea Rose Hurley arrive at the annual Pre-GRAMMY Gala on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

His daughter's drug possession charges have been dropped, but the gossip hasn't been so quick to fade away. So Bon Jovi himself addressed 19-year-old Stephanie Bongiovi's Nov. 14 heroin overdose in an interview with My Fox LA yesterday, calling it a "tragedy" but seeming relatively unruffled. "This tragedy was something that I had to face too so we'll get through it. And people's warm wishes for my family and I have been really reassuring. So, we're good."

He continued, "What I do for a living seems glitzy and glamorous but if you don't take it too seriously it's a great way to make a living. And then life goes on. Things happen." (Read more celebrity stories.)