Jon Bon Jovi said he is still “heartbroken” over Richie Sambora’s decision to leave the band more than a decade ago.
Speaking Monday on the “Dumb Blonde” podcast with host Bunnie Xo, the 63-year-old frontman reflected on Sambora’s 2013 exit in the middle of Bon Jovi’s world tour. Sambora, who co-founded the group and played lead guitar for nearly 30 years, stepped away to focus on co-parenting his daughter with ex-wife Heather Locklear.
“The great thing that I have said about him throughout our lives was you would be lucky to call him your friend … talented beyond, beyond as a guitar player, as a singer, as a collaborator,” Bon Jovi said. “My heartbreak with him is the way he walked out on us, compounded by the fact that it took him years to come back in the room just to have a meal with Tico and David and I and say, ‘I’m sorry.'”
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