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Jon Bon Jovi is speaking out in more detail about his daughter Stephanie Bongiovi’s arrest and alleged heroin overdose while in college.

Jon’s daughter and a friend were arrested mid-November at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. Although charges were soon dropped (due to recently-amended state laws) and Stephanie recovered from the overdose at a hospital, Jon is still left struggling from the ramifications.

“I didn’t have any sisters . . . There was no manual,” Bon Jovi, told the Associated Press about raising a daughter. “So you bring her up the best you can, you surround her with hugs and kisses and know that she may eventually fall down.”

The 50-year-old rocker continued, “I appreciate the outpouring of kindness in light of what happened in my household. I’m shocked as much as the next parent with this situation and had no idea. But then you surround them with best help and love and move on, and that’s where we’re at with it.”

Jon insists that “Steph is a great kid. Great GPA. Cool school, Hamilton College up in Clinton, New York. Everything about it is idyllic. She was doing great. Then a sudden and steep decline.”

Jon who has four children with wife Dorothea Hurley hopes “that’s the end” of his daughter’s troubles. “I’m confident, but no one knows the future…It is what it is.”