Given Jon's admission to being terrified of elevators, I thought this was really interesting. He's conquering his own phobia and helping someone else too.

http://radar.smh.com.au/archives/200...or_high_1.html


Susie Falkes, an admitted lift phobic, had an unexpected encounter with rock star Jon Bon Jovi in one of them. She was on her way to an engagement party on the second fl oor of the Sir Stamford Plaza Hotel in Double Bay, but the only access was via a lift. “I was in a state of high anxiety,” she recalls. “I got sweaty palms, I was shaking, I had to go for a walk around the block, I even sat in the car at one stage.”

When she found herself back at the lift, the doors opened. “Someone walked into the lift in front of me and I just stood there like a rock. Then he said, ‘What are you doing? Are you coming?’

“I said, ‘No, I have a lift phobia’, so he reached out and pulled me into the lift and said, ‘I’ll take you.’ ”

The stranger put his arms around Falkes and comforted her.

“I was shaking my boots off ... he smelled divine.”

The lift stopped and she jumped out, turning to thank her rescuer. “I looked at him and realised it was Jon Bon Jovi. He was standing there in jeans and boots with his blond hair. We laughed at each other then the doors closed and he was gone.

“He must have known someone with a lift phobia because he knew exactly what to do to make me feel better. It didn’t kill my lift phobia though.”