Sophie Turner is opening up about her highly publicized divorce from singer Joe Jonas.
The “Game of Thrones” star recently sat down for an expansive conversation about the end of her four-year marriage and the seemingly contentious custody battle that followed.
“I’m going through a legal process right now where I can’t really say much, but it was incredibly sad,” the actor told Harper’s Bazaar in an interview published Wednesday. “We had a beautiful relationship, and it was hard.”
Turner and Jonas were married by an Elvis impersonator in 2019, mere months after the fantasy series that had made her a star aired its last-ever episode. The former couple welcomed their first child the following year and had another daughter in 2022.
Jonas filed for divorce in Florida the following September, however, prompting an entire year of legal proceedings and a complex custody battle over their children.
Turner, who previously discussed feeling like a “plus-one” in her marriage, now lives in London.
“I’m so happy to be back,” she told Harper’s Bazaar. “It felt as if my life was on pause until I returned to England. I just never really feel like myself when I’m not on London, with my friends and family. I was away for so long — six years.”
Turner explained that she had missed out on some priceless moments back home and that, in turn, some of her friends didn’t get to witness her first pregnancy. The mother of two recalled being at a recent dinner with a friend, who said, “I never got to touch your belly.”
“We didn’t have those key experiences with each other,” she told Harper’s Bazaar.
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Turner is “very happy” in her new relationship with English aristocrat Peregrine Pearson, meanwhile, and said Wednesday that he’s “funny” and “brings out the cheeky side” of her. She recently shared a loved-up carousel of photos on Instagram for Pearson’s birthday, calling him an “angel pie” in the caption.
While the details behind her split with Jonas remain private, he reportedly wrote in his 2023 divorce filing that the union was “irretrievably broken.” Turner later sued him, claiming he had “wrongfully detained” their kids in the U.S., but came to a custody agreement in January 2024 after her suit was dismissed.
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For Turner, the decision to leave the U.S. wasn’t all personal — but cultural and political, too.
“The gun violence, Roe v. Wade being overturned ... Everything just kind of piled on,” she told Harper’s Bazaar. “After the Uvalde [school] shooting, I knew it was time to get the fuck out of there.”
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