Sophie Turner Sets The Record Straight On Her ‘Single Mother’ Remark

Sophie Turner clarified a current remark about motherhood that sparked issues on-line.

The actress just lately mentioned in an interview that being a single mom was a “battle,” however many misconstrued her assertion as a reference to herself.

Sophie Turner has now revealed that her feedback had been directed at her character Joan within the newly launched ITV collection of the identical title.

The “Sport of Thrones” actress took to her Instagram Tales to handle what she calls a “misquote” by a number of publications following her interview with The Sunday Times.

In her replace, she said that she was referring to her function within the upcoming crime collection “Joan,” during which she portrays the real-life Joan “The Godmother” Hannington, and never herself.

“I’ve been broadly misquoted right this moment in publications the place I’ve ‘said’ that ‘it is such a battle being a single mom,” Turner wrote. “I might wish to make clear that I used to be speaking in regards to the character of Joan that I play and was not referring to myself, which is clear from the unique interview within the Sunday Occasions Tradition part.”

“I’m very lucky personally to have quite a lot of assist round me, which isn’t the case for lots of people,” she continued, noting that she “applauds all single moms doing it alone.”

Her assertion comes after her current dialog with the information outlet about her new present, “Joan,” during which she alluded to single motherhood being a “battle” amid her cut up from her ex-husband Joe Jonas.

“Joan modified me quite a bit. From utter desperation comes a lot will and ambition,” she advised the publication. “The collection got here round at a time in my life after I needed to be bold and I needed to have such sturdy will and struggle towards the forces. She gave me quite a lot of energy.”

“If I hadn’t been a mom, I do not know if I’d have been in a position to deliver the identical vitality that I did into it. It is such a battle being a single mom,” she added.

In Turner’s collection, she stars as Joan, a girl who goes from being a housewife to a petty offender, a diamond thief, and a felony mastermind.

Turner’s character needed to escape her husband as a result of he was abusive however should place her daughter in little one care earlier than she units out to get again on her ft. She quickly manages to get a job in a jewellery retailer, the place she steals her first diamond.

The 28-year-old actress was locked in a contentious custody battle along with her ex, Joe Jonas, over their daughters Willa and Delphine after he filed to divorce her in September 2023.

Based on People Magazine, a Florida decide dominated that their marriage is “irretrievably damaged,” with a authorized doc noting that the settlement is “in the perfect pursuits of the events and this household.”

Particulars of their settlement have been saved beneath wraps. The decide additionally allowed Turner and Jonas to waive the 20-day ready interval for closing judgment, saying, “The wedding between the events is dissolved, and the events are restored to the standing of being single.”

The “Darkish Phoenix” actress just lately went Instagram official along with her boyfriend, aristocrat Peregrine Pearson.

Within the June version of British Vogue Magazine, Turner opened up about how difficult the aftermath of her divorce from the singer was.

“These had been the worst few days of my life,” she advised the publication. “I bear in mind I used to be on set, I used to be contracted to be on set for one more two weeks, so I could not depart. My children had been within the States, and I could not get to them as a result of I needed to end Joan. And all these articles began popping out …”

On the time, speculations had been rife that their cut up was brought on by her being a nasty mother, particularly after pictures circulated of her at a wrap celebration for Joan.

Nonetheless, she needed to remind herself that “none of that is true” and that she was “an excellent mum.”

The actress revealed that she was shocked by the tales about her that circulated on-line through the interval of her divorce from Jonas.

“I imply, it is unfathomable the quantity of individuals that may simply make sh-t up and put it up primarily based on an image,” Turner mentioned. “An image may inform a thousand phrases, but it surely’s not my story. It felt like I used to be watching a film of my life that I hadn’t written, hadn’t produced, or starred in. It was surprising. I am nonetheless in shock.”

“There have been some days that I did not know if I used to be going to make it. I’d name my lawyer saying, ‘I can not do that. I simply cannot,'” Turner recalled. “After which, lastly, after two weeks of me being in a rut, she jogged my memory that it was my kids I used to be combating for.”