‘It was a terrible speed bump that we got over’: Jon Bon Jovi, 54, addresses daughter Stephanie being hospitalized for d*ugs in 2012

Jon Bon Jovi has had it all: a rock star career, millions of dollars, a mega mansion, a loving wife of 30 years and four kids.

But in 2012 the Slippery When Wet singer was rattled when he learned his daughter Stephanie, now 23, had to be hospitalized for taking Opioids, which can include Morphine or Oxycodone.

‘It was a terrible speed bump that we got over,’ the New Jersey native told People in a cover story to promote his new album This House Is Not For Sale.

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Family man: Jon Bon Jovi has addressed his daughter Stephanie’s struggle with drugs. Here he is seen with wife Dorothea (far right) and their four children in 2011

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A rare reveal: The 54-year-old rocker talked to People to promote his new album This House Is Not For Sale

Jovi added: ‘ There was no need to be any closer to out kids. We couldn’t get any closer.’

Dorothea, who was also interviewed by the magazine, said: ‘It happens to a lot of families that you would never know. We dealt with it as a family.’

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Stephanie, who looks much like her famous father, had just started college when the incident occurred.

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In the Big Apple: Jon, Dorothea and kids Jesse, Jacob and Stephanie leaving Dos Caminos restaurant in 2010

He also has three sons: Jesse, 21, Jacob 14, and Romeo 12.

The star, who had his first hit in 1986, said family is what has inspired his music.

His wife, who he met in high school after asking if he could off her test, said that Jon often will wake up and write ‘stuff’ down.

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The early days: The star, who had his first hit in 1986, said family is what has inspired his music. Here he is seen with )from left) Richie Sambora, Dave Bryan, Alec John Such and Tico Torres

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Longtime love: The two met in high school then eloped in Las Vegas in 1989. Here they are pictured in 1988

Or he will ‘lock himself in a room and write.’

‘I’m not a journeyman,” Bon Jovi said.

That means he likes to hit the road. ‘I know some people who are applause junkies. I’m not,’ he added.

Though he craves life touring, he has a hard time leaving his sprawling New Jersey estate where he loves to take in a football game with his sons.

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A rock: Also in the interview it was said Jon is the ‘crazy visionary’ and Dorothea is the ‘glue’; here they are pictured at the Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation’s 10 year anniversary in October

‘I go kicking and screaming,’ he confessed. ‘You see my fingernails in the driveway. But once I get to the first hotel I’m like, “Okay, I’m here.”‘

He will be back out there soon enough to plug This House Is Not For Sale, which goes on sale Friday.

The band will be without Richie Sambora, who left the group in 2013.

Jon said that there was no haggling over money and no argument. Richie just didn’t show up one day. That was three years ago. No one in the band has spoken to him since.

Coming home can be hard too: ‘You go from that life of vampires… then suddenly you’re taking the garbage out and the kids to school, going to bed at 10:30. It’s a dramatic change! In a perfect world you’d go to a place like astronauts and decompress for a few days before they let you out into the real world.’