Originally Posted by bonjovi90

It didn't come from there, but just confirmed what I had heard before. And I don't think there's a need to keep this story off the radar any longer, it's been three years since it leaked. One of the members of the current Bon Jovi line-up (obviously not Jon ) met one of the members of the band Bounce back in 2016 at an event. They were introduced to each other and the member seemed to be really jetlagged, but also very interested in a chat. They talked for nearly an hour about everything from instruments to how to play with other musicians to how to do certain elements of a Jovi song and so on. Near the end, this story slipped out:
Bobby had been with the band and a great person to hang around with, pretty funny and doing essential and great vocals (no word of his guitar playing). As we know from the 2014 Red Bank video, he had gained tons of weight after the BWC tour, looking like Santa Clause. Simply because he had been going through some real rough times as he was getting divorced. That's why he was absent from the work on Burning Bridges and that's why Matt played the Asian Mini tour in 2015. After the contract situations for THINFS got resolved and the band was gearing up for that cycle, Jon allegedly told him to "get his shit together and start losing weight", to which Bobby flipped him the finger, telling him to "take care of his own crap".
That's how it ended. After having told the story, that jetlagged member seemed to realize that he had just aired some dirty laundry and was a bit uncomfortable having done so.