Joe Jonas was in Portofino living the dream vacation: yacht in the harbor, dinner booked at a waterfront restaurant, a quick ride over on the smaller tender boat. Then a wave pushed the two boats apart while he was stepping across, and he slipped right into the gap between them. A first mate tried to grab him and fell in too. Jonas went under, came back up, fell in once more, and finally rolled himself up onto the tender. Everyone made it out.
He shared the story on the September 23 episode of The Morgan Stewart Show, and his description is almost perfect:“It sounds like the bougiest problem. But it was terrifying.”Stewart watched it happen live from the bigger boat, along with her husband Jordan McGraw. The dramatic part is obvious. The part that stays with you is quieter.
About an hour after he was safely out of the water, the fear caught up with him, and he felt an urgent need to call his daughters, Willa and Delphine, whom he shares with ex-wife Sophie Turner.“I just need to call them. I need to see them. I need to see their faces,”he said. A routine step onto a boat turned into the kind of moment that rewrites your priorities.
What’s the first thing you’d do after a scare like that?
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