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- Music Legend, 63, Once Said Reunion Could Happen After Bandmate's Sudden Exit</p>
<p>Isabella TorregianiJuly 11, 2025 at 7:21 AM</p>
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<p>Music Legend, 63, Once Said Reunion Could Happen After Bandmate's Sudden Exit originally appeared on Parade.</p>
<p>Fans have long speculated whether the legendary band Bon Jovi would ever reunite — and with past interviews suggesting the frontman is open to it, now might be the time.</p>
<p>Last year, the 63-year-old rocker revealed he's only spoken to guitarist Richie Sambora twice since his unexpected departure from the group in 2013.</p>
<p>"It was a shock," Jon Bon Jovi said of Sambora's sudden exit mid-tour. "Nobody anticipated it, no one saw it coming."</p>
<p>He recalled one of their last conversations on Easter Sunday, when they discussed their album What About Now. Sambora asked to stay home one more day — Bon Jovi agreed, expecting him back for their next show in Calgary.</p>
<p>However, Sambora called and said he wouldn't be returning. The guitarist later claimed he left partly because he felt the band had grown "stale" — a claim Bon Jovi strongly disagrees with.</p>
<p>"I didn't think so, and the collective, we didn't think so," he once told Classic Rock. "I personally thought that everything was going incredibly f--king well. And it was never brought up—in the room, in the writing, in the recording, or during the first 20 shows of that tour."</p>
<p>In that 2024 interview, Bon Jovi admitted the split still hurts and that they've barely kept in touch over the past 11 years.</p>
<p>"I've talked to him twice," he said. "He. Quit. The. Band. I swear to Christ there was never a fight, nothing… He wasn't kicked out, he quit. And he hasn't made any great overtures about coming back."</p>
<p>After Sambora's exit, the band tapped guitarist Phil X to fill in. By 2014, Bon Jovi officially confirmed Sambora would not return.</p>
<p>Still, the door hasn't fully closed. In 2023, Sambora told PEOPLE a reunion "could definitely happen."</p>
<p>"It's just a question of when everybody's ready to go do it. It will be a big, massive kind of undertaking," he said.</p>
<p>The following year, while promoting his album Forever, Bon Jovi echoed that sentiment. "If he wanted to show up and play sometime, he knows the songs. Absolutely no animosity, I can promise you that," he told Audacy Check In.</p>
<p>So with both sides seemingly open — what's the hold up? With bands like Oasis reuniting after 15 years and Black Sabbath returning for one final farewell, a Bon Jovi and Sambora reunion would be a perfect addition to the comeback trend.</p>
<p>Music Legend, 63, Once Said Reunion Could Happen After Bandmate's Sudden Exit first appeared on Parade on Jul 11, 2025</p>
<p>This story was originally reported by Parade on Jul 11, 2025, where it first appeared.</p>
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