She was one of the few to survive Westeros' Winter, but making out of a Hollywood divorce? Sophie Turner did that too, with a little help from one of the most famous women on the planet.
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00:00She was one of the few to survive Westeros' winter, but making out of a Hollywood divorce?
00:05Sophie Turner did that, too, with a little help from one of the most famous women on
00:09the planet.
00:11Sophie Turner was, unfortunately, one of many Game of Thrones stars who dealt with serious
00:15mental health issues during their tenure on the show.
00:18She, however, had to experience it all during her teens, and didn't really identify her
00:22struggles until she was 17.
00:24During a conversation on Dr. Phil's podcast, Fill in the Blanks, she said of her mental
00:28health,
00:29"'It only started to kind of go downhill, I think, when I started to hit puberty.
00:32And I was gaining weight, and there was the social media scrutiny and everything, and
00:36that was when it kind of hit me.'"
00:38"'I don't pray anymore.
00:41It's the only place I can go where people don't talk to me.'"
00:44Facing criticism for her body or her acting at such a young age was enough to send Turner
00:49spiraling in the years to come, as she battled an eating disorder.
00:52At one point, she even had to hire a live-in therapist to monitor her unhealthy eating
00:57habits, which she credits with helping her reshape her relationship to her own self-image.
01:01By the time the Game of Thrones series finale aired in 2019, Turner had been playing the
01:06role of Sansa Stark for a decade, taking the character from precocious young lady to traumatized
01:11captive to hardened leader, all in the span of eight seasons.
01:14At the very least, Turner got to relish the character having a fitting ending compared
01:18to most others on the show.
01:20Still, letting go of the character she had grown up with wasn't easy.
01:23As she recounted in an Instagram post the day the finale aired,
01:26"'Thank you for teaching me resilience, bravery, and what true strength really is.
01:30I fell in love with you at 13, and now 10 years on, at 23, I leave you behind.
01:35But I will never leave behind what you've taught me.'"
01:37"'Why aren't you happy?
01:40What do you want that you do not have?'
01:42"'At the moment, peace and quiet.'"
01:45As for moving on, the actor later credited Jo Jonas for helping her figure out what her
01:49life would look like post-Game of Thrones.
01:51She was also adamant about leaving the character in the past, confirming shortly after the
01:55finale aired that she didn't want to reprise the role in the future.
01:59Three years before the end of Game of Thrones, Turner had made her superhero debut in X-Men
02:04Apocalypse as a young Jean Grey, the mutant who eventually becomes a villainous traitor
02:08to the iconic Marvel team.
02:10That opportunity for Turner came with 2019's Dark Phoenix, which adapted the comic book
02:14saga of the same name.
02:16The movie seemed like the perfect opportunity to utilize the acting prowess Turner had displayed
02:20throughout the HBO series, but Dark Phoenix drastically underperformed at the box office.
02:25The film garnered poor reviews across the board as well, and while some reviews did
02:29commend Turner's performance for holding the film together, clearly, it wasn't enough to
02:33make up for all its flaws.
02:35At the time, it still seemed as if Turner would brush off the Dark Phoenix debacle and
02:39continue with her movie career.
02:40But the biggest twist in Turner's life was yet to come.
02:44Everything changed for Sophie Turner at 24 years old when she discovered that she was
02:48pregnant on a trip to Bali.
02:50Like most young adults, Turner struggled with the idea of becoming a mother so early on,
02:54but later told British Vogue,
02:55"...I really didn't know if I wanted to be a mother, but something changed in me that
02:59day.
03:00I just knew I had to have her."
03:02Turner's first child with Joe Jonas, Willa, was born in 2020, which ended up being a pretty
03:07inconvenient time to give birth.
03:09However, the pandemic and lockdown only gave Turner more time to spend with her newborn,
03:13who was quickly given a little sister, Delphine, in 2022.
03:16The decision to have two children in her early to mid-twenties has been nothing but
03:20positive for Turner, particularly in terms of her own body image, and especially after
03:25a long adolescence fielding negative comments about her appearance.
03:29Turner's on-screen appearances were few and far between as she focused her time on raising
03:33her children.
03:34When she did pop up in various projects, though, she reminded audiences what they were missing.
03:38One of those was Do Revenge, a 2022 Netflix comedy about two teens who team up to enact
03:43vengeance on those who have wronged them.
03:45Turner's role in the movie may have been small, but it sure was memorable.
03:48In the film, Turner plays Erica, a tennis camper who is framed by Camila Mendes' character
03:53for possession of cocaine, leading to her being dragged out by force.
03:56Turner told Empire magazine that she worked on channeling some classic on-screen freak-outs,
04:00saying,
04:01"...for most of my career, I've been playing someone who has a lot of pent-up feelings.
04:05I've been longing for a scene where one of my characters was able to scream and cry and
04:09shout and push people around."
04:11"...I don't do cocaine!"
04:14"...He doesn't even know what it looks like."
04:16"...I don't know what it looks like!"
04:19As it turns out, being married to a world-famous pop star isn't all it's cracked up to be.
04:24Sophie Turner's relationship with Joe Jonas was tabloid fodder well before Game of Thrones
04:28ended.
04:29But as the years passed, it began to overshadow her work as an actor.
04:33Turner was often seen attending Jonas Brothers concerts throughout the relationship, even
04:36less than a month before the marriage ended, sparking headlines for her outfits and dancing.
04:41Turner later admitted that the pressures of being so heavily associated with the Jonas
04:45Brothers made things difficult, especially as it became more of her identity.
04:49As she told British Vogue,
04:51"...it was kind of this plus-one feeling, and that's nothing to do with him.
04:54In no way did he make me feel that.
04:56It was just that the perception of us was as the groupies in the band."
05:00Even when Turner did appear in the public eye during these years, it was often related
05:04to her husband.
05:05For instance, her set during Netflix's Jonas Brothers Family Roast went viral for the brutal
05:09insults she hurled towards Joe and his brothers.
05:13"...interestingly, on this side of the Atlantic, the sequel to Camp Rock was called Camp Rock
05:172, whereas in England it was called a load of s----."
05:20Sadly, things only got worse between the celebrity couple, and it did not end as gracefully as
05:25their fans might have hoped.
05:27Pop culture fans were shocked in 2023 when it was reported that Joe Jonas was planning
05:32on filing for divorce from Sophie Turner.
05:34The news was later confirmed by the couple via social media, who shared on Instagram,
05:38There are many speculative narratives as to why, but truly, this is a united decision,
05:43and we sincerely hope that everyone can respect our wishes for privacy for us and our children.
05:48Despite initial press that favored Jonas in the divorce, public sentiment soon took Turner's
05:53side, with claims that she was a partier disputed by previous interviews where the actor indicated
05:57the opposite.
05:58Things only got more messy when, after weeks of staying silent, Turner filed a lawsuit
06:03against Jonas for refusing to turn over the children's passports to let them return to
06:07England with her.
06:08After months of divorce proceedings, the two ended up reaching a temporary custody agreement
06:12for the rest of 2023.
06:14While it may have been an entertaining saga for people online, the drama had real-life
06:18consequences for those involved.
06:20Turner told British Vogue that she struggled to keep everything together in the midst of
06:24filming a television series, saying,
06:25"...there were some days that I didn't know if I was going to make it.
06:29And then finally, after two weeks of me being in a rut, my lawyer reminded me that it was
06:33my children I was fighting for."
06:35Shortly after filing a lawsuit against her soon-to-be ex-husband, the actor made headlines
06:39when she was spotted grabbing dinner in New York City with none other than Taylor Swift,
06:44a notable ex of Joe Jonas.
06:45It was eventually reported by tabloids that Swift had lent her Tribeca apartment to Turner
06:50and her children while divorce proceedings took place.
06:52If the court of public opinion had already been taking Turner's side in the breakup drama,
06:56the added bonus of buddying up with Swift only elicited more support for the Game of
07:00Thrones star.
07:01Turner continued to pop up in public with Swift throughout the fall of 2023.
07:05She later told British Vogue just how much of a saving grace Swift was for her, saying,
07:10"...I've never been more grateful to anyone than I am for her because she took my children
07:14and me and provided us with a home and a safe space."
07:17Many people would be leveled by the kind of chaos Sophie Turner experienced in 2023, but
07:23the actor didn't let her divorce drama stop her from pursuing a new relationship.
07:27In October of that year, the actor was seen sharing a kiss with British aristocrat Peregrine
07:31Pearson, sparking rumors that the two were an item.
07:34Turner seemed to confirm that their relationship was at least legit via Instagram, sharing
07:38a photo of the pair on a ski trip, and has since tagged him in social media posts showcasing
07:42her off-screen life.
07:44They made their debut together as a couple in March 2024, attending Stanley Zoo's Year
07:48of the Dragon party in London, and later were spotted at Paris Fashion Week.
07:52Given how public her marriage with Joe Jonas was, it's not surprising to see Turner embrace
07:57a more low-key romance with Pearson.
08:00It's about time that Sophie Turner resumes the Hollywood takeover she was bound for after
08:04Game of Thrones ended.
08:05She's set to make her return to television in fall 2024, with the title role in the six-episode
08:10miniseries Joan, the real-life story of prolific English jewel thief Joan Hannington.
08:15Turner was filming the series as the divorce drama with Joe Jonas was publicly playing
08:19out, and fans will get to see the fruits of her labor when the series premieres on The
08:23CW in the United States.
08:25It seems that the network has high hopes for it.
08:27Not only have they cut back on scripted programming in recent years, but Netflix executive Brad
08:31Schwartz has teased that Turner's performance may garner award nominations, telling TV's
08:36Top 5,
08:37"'The Dailies' look amazing.
08:38Sophie Turner is phenomenal.
08:39I'm really, really excited about that one."
08:42While she earned the nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for Game of Thrones
08:46in 2019, Joan could nab Turner her first lead actress nod.
08:51After Joan, there's a lot for Sophie Turner's fans to look forward to.
08:54With the actor's schedule fully loaded for the next few years, she's already started
08:57filming her next TV project, the Prime Video series Haven, in which she will star as a
09:02pension fund office worker who is forced to help a group of thieves steal billions from
09:06the company.
09:07Turner will also reunite with her former on-screen half-brother, Kit Harington, in The Dreadful,
09:11a new horror movie from director Natasha Kamani.
09:14In the flick, set during the War of the Roses, Turner plays a woman whose life is upended
09:18when Harington's character re-enters her life.
09:20Turner reacted to the news on Instagram, sharing,
09:22"...I mean, we couldn't not hang out again, you know?"
09:25Turner's other future projects include Trust, a thriller from Saw production company Twisted
09:30Pictures, and Cloud One, a sci-fi film co-starring Boyd Holbrook from The Sandman and Simona
09:35Tabasco of The White Lotus fame.
09:37Nobody, not even Sophie Turner, could have seen where her life was headed after Game
09:42of Thrones ended five years ago.
09:43It may not be the career anyone expected her to have, but the future has never seemed brighter
09:48for Turner, who told Harper's Bazaar,
09:50"...I'm kind of embracing this lighter, fresher kind of energy around me."
09:54The last few years have definitely earned Turner some much-needed rest and relaxation,
09:58though she seems a lot better now than anyone could have anticipated.