has addressed speculation that former guitarist will rejoin the band. Speaking exclusively in the brand new issue of magazine, the singer reveals that he has spoken to Sambora just twice since the latter left the band mid-tour in 2013 – and that a reunion with the guitarist isn’t on the cards. “It was a shock,” says Bon Jovi of Sambora’s sudden departure before a show in Calgary, Canada on April 3, 2013.
“Nobody anticipated it, no one saw it coming. I talked to him the day before, I remember it so well. It was Easter Sunday, 2013, and I was driving through the Lincoln Tunnel as I was talking to him, because I was living in New York, and I was like: ‘Yeah, I’m feeling great, the album [2013’s ] is gonna come in at Number One, see you up there.
’ “He said: ‘Can I stay home one more day?’ ‘Of course. You want to fly private tomorrow? Sure. Do it.
I don’t care. See you up there.’ And then the next day the phone rings at three in the afternoon, and, you know.
.. ‘I can’t go on.
’” Sambora later said his departure was partly down to feeling that the band were getting “stale”, something Bon Jovi refutes. “I didn’t think so, and the collective, we didn’t think so,” he tells . “I personally thought that everything was going incredibly fucking well.
And it was never brought up in the room, or in the writing, or in the recording, or during the first 20 shows of that tour.” While Bon Jovi admits to still being “heartbroken” over Sa.