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

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

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

Sophie Turner has now revealed that her feedback have been directed at her character Joan within the newly launched ITV sequence of the identical identify.

The “Recreation of Thrones” actress took to her Instagram Tales to deal with 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 position within the upcoming crime sequence “Joan,” through which she portrays the real-life Joan “The Godmother” Hannington, and never herself.

“I’ve been broadly misquoted right now in publications the place I’ve ‘said’ that ‘it is such a wrestle being a single mom,” Turner wrote. “I might prefer 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 apparent from the unique interview within the Sunday Occasions Tradition part.”

“I’m very lucky personally to have a variety 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 latest dialog with the information outlet about her new present, “Joan,” through which she alluded to single motherhood being a “wrestle” amid her cut up from her ex-husband Joe Jonas.

“Joan modified me rather a lot. From utter desperation comes a lot will and ambition,” she instructed the publication. “The sequence 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 a variety of energy.”

“If I hadn’t been a mom, I do not know if I might have been capable of carry the identical vitality that I did into it. It is such a wrestle being a single mom,” she added.

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

In line with 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 stored underneath wraps. The decide additionally allowed Turner and Jonas to waive the 20-day ready interval for last judgment, saying, “The wedding between the events is dissolved, and the events are restored to the standing of being single.”

The “Darkish Phoenix” actress 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 have been the worst few days of my life,” she instructed the publication. “I bear in mind I used to be on set, I used to be contracted to be on set for an additional two weeks, so I could not go away. My youngsters have 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 have been rife that their cut up was brought on by her being a nasty mother, particularly after pictures circulated of her at a wrap get together 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 surprised by the tales about her that circulated on-line throughout 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 based mostly on an image,” Turner mentioned. “An image may inform a thousand phrases, nevertheless it’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 might 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 youngsters I used to be preventing for.”