Bruce Springsteen was charged with driving while intoxicated, reckless driving and consuming alcohol in a closed area back in November 2020, it has been revealed.
The arrest and subsequent charges came months before the 71-year-old featured his first ever product endorsement for Jeep, in an ad which aired during Sunday’s Super Bowl.
The singer was arrested in his home state of New Jersey in November 2020 at Gateway National Recreation Area, the National Park Service confirmed to Daily Star.
The NPS spokesperson, Brenda Ling, told us that the rockstar has been “cooperative throughout the process”.
No other details have been released.
Bruce Springsteen appeared in a Jeep advert on Sunday (Image: Jeep)
According to US publication TMZ, this is the first time Bruce has been arrested for a DWI.
The Thunder Road hitmaker is due in court in the coming weeks, however a specific date has not yet been revealed.
Daily Star has contacted a representative for Bruce Springsteen for comment.
News of the arrest comes after the music legend appeared in his first ever product endorsement in an ad for Jeep.
Bruce Springsteen had never appeared in a product endorsement before (Image: Getty Images North America)
However it is not clear whether or not Jeep were aware of Bruce’s arrest when the ad was produced.
Daily Star has contacted a representative for Jeep for comment.
The advert aired during Sunday’s Super Bowl.
The two-minute clip saw Bruce driving through Lebanon, Kansas in a 1980 Jeep CJ-5 while speaking about unity.
The location of the ad is close to the geographical centre of the US.
Bruce Springsteen is due in court after being charged with DWI, reckless driving and consuming alcohol in a closed space (Image: Jeep)
He said: “It’s no secret the middle has been a hard place to get to lately, between red and blue, servant and citizen, freedom and fear.”
The musician added: “We need the middle.”
He went on: “Fear has never been the best of who we are.
“We just have to remember the very soil we stand on is common ground. So we can get there. We can make it to the mountaintop, through the desert… and we will cross the divide.”
The landmark ad then featured the statement: “To the ReUnited States of America.”
The decision to appear in the ad was “spontaneous”, according to Bruce’s manager Jon Landau.
His longtime colleague told Rolling Stone that Bruce had been heavily involved in the artistic direction of the ad, and that he “substantially revised” the script.
He said the star “controlled every second of what you see and hear, and that’s why it feels so personal”.
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
