In a year of messy celebrity splits, Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas’ breakup may be the most complicated.
But it is also the most revealing: we observe, in real time, the story of the “bad mother” which backfires – spectacularly.
Before the couple announced their separation earlier this month, Jonas’ team appeared to be engaging in a not-too-subtle blitzkrieg: Joe was suddenly a de facto single parent with two little girls, ages three and one years, even while he was on tour.
Oh, how he was suffering. Check out this not-at-all paparazzi-staged photo, Joe holding one of his daughters with Sophie nowhere in sight, her wedding ring visibly missing. If only their mother could take the trouble to be a mother.
“She likes to party,” a Jonas source told TMZ, “(and) he likes to stay at home. They have very different lifestyles.
We all know what “partying” means: the implication that Turner drinks too much or does drugs.
In a year of messy celebrity splits, Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas’ breakup may be the most complicated. But it is also the most revealing: we observe, in real time, the story of the “bad mother” which backfires – spectacularly.
Before the couple announced their split earlier this month, Jonas’ team appeared to be engaging in a none-too-subtle blitzkrieg. “She likes to party,” a Jonas source told TMZ, “(and) he likes to stay at home. They have very different lifestyles. We all know what ‘party’ means:l The implication is that Turner drinks too much or uses drugs.
It was ugly, gratuitous and hypocritical: after all, are we supposed to believe Joe Jonas, 34, famous since his teens, who spent most of his life as a touring pop musician and has a string of exes -famous girlfriends – including Gigi Hadid and Taylor Swift – is an altar boy?
Please. These famous purity rings disappeared a long time ago.
Here’s Turner in a 2021 Netflix comedy about her husband and brothers: “For those of you who don’t know, purity rings are worn to demonstrate that you are abstaining from premarital sex. And the Jonas brothers – they all had them… But Joe Jonas didn’t just stick his fingers in stupid metal rings, he stuck his fingers in co-stars, actresses and even a model or two as a teen star from Disney. .
As they say, there is some truth in every joke.
And what about Joe Jonas who told CBS Sunday Morning in May 2021 that it took a global pandemic for him to become an active presence in his children’s lives?
“It’s forced time at home,” he said. “I’m always on the go, moving, traveling and touring. And being in one place for a good amount of time and (having) my feet on the ground and being with my family, my immediate family, that’s a time that I don’t think I’ll ever get back.
Here’s how Turner described herself to Conan O’Brien in April 2020, at the start of the lockdown: “I’m an introvert. I’m a homebody… If I could stay home all day I would, so that’s great for me.
What an epic fail for Team Jonas to describe Turner’s decision to film a six-part ITV series in England last summer as an abandonment. It’s really an archaic thing.
As described in Turner’s explosive court filing Thursday — more on that later — the job was “the first significant role the mother has taken on since having the children.”
A friend of Turner’s told the Daily Mail that the actress, now 27, had been struggling for a while. “She feels like her life is at a standstill after ‘Game of Thrones,’ as is her personal life… Sophie feels like she’s only just waking up to what her life is really like and her reality. She became famous very young, then married and had children very young and never really had the teenage years where she slept and had carefree fun with friends.
It was ugly, gratuitous and hypocritical. Are we supposed to believe that Joe Jonas, famous since his teens, who spent most of his life as a touring pop musician and who has a string of famous ex-girlfriends, is an altar boy? (Photo this month in Los Angeles).
What an epic fail for Team Jonas to describe Turner’s decision to film a six-part ITV series in England last summer as an abandonment. It’s really an archaic thing.
Sophie Turner’s public crisis evokes, in my opinion, nothing more than that of the fictional Nora in Ibsen’s play “A Doll’s House”: a newly domesticated young wife and mother, pilloried for having her own ambitions. This play was written in 1879.
These statements from Jonas smell like mothballs. They have the stench of an old house or a thrift store. His wife, who was a famous actress when they met, wants to remain a famous actress? The shock of all shocks!
You’d think someone whose fan base is almost 100 percent female would have thought this through. Women don’t easily forgive rich, famous and bitter ex-husbands for shaming their ex-wives by calling them bad mothers.
Ask none other than Alec Baldwin, who spent years accusing his ex-wife Kim Basinger of parental alienation — a crusade that ended after a leaked voicemail in which he fumed at his then-elderly daughter of 11 years old, calling her “rude and thoughtless”. little pig.’
Chris Pratt has faced well-deserved criticism for social media posts shading his ex-wife Anna Faris and his fitness as a mother. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. infamously disparaged his estranged wife Mary, who committed suicide in 2012, by calling her a terrible mother to anyone who would listen – after her death.
None of these men seem to realize or care about the obvious consequence: their children will grow up reading all this one day. That’s a pretty low bar for famous parenting 101: keep your mouth shut.
Sophie Turner should be applauded for expertly playing a long game.
How smart of her to stay so quiet, orchestrate photo ops this week with Swift – who wrote songs purporting to be about Jonas’s occasional cruelty during their relationship – and allow her court petition to go unnoticed. talk.
And wow: In this filing, Turner alleges that Jonas refuses to hand over the children’s passports and engages in “wrongful non-return,” reneging on their agreement to permanently move to England, his country of origin.
“The mother is fully involved in the children’s schooling, medical care, dental care, cultural activities and other activities in England,” the petition states. “The mother provides all the daily care of children in England. England is the children’s habitual residence.
Sophie should be applauded for expertly playing a long game. How smart of her to stay so quiet, orchestrate photo ops this week with Taylor Swift (pictured with Turner this week) and let her court petition do the talking.
In addition, it indicates that “around September 5, 2023, the mother discovered through the media that the father had filed for divorce.”
Nice guy, right?
What happens next could very well ruin Joe Jonas’ good guy image for good, because he can’t seem to stop bashing.
Immediately after Turner’s filing, a representative for the singer released a statement calling it a “harsh legal position” that contradicted the “amicable co-parenting system” he claimed to establish.
After all, nothing is more “friendly” than allowing “sources” close to you to spread rumors about the mother of your children on TMZ.
There’s a reason this celebrity breakup, more than any other this year, resonates: misogyny is no longer so easily explained.
Women and teenage girls will think twice before putting money in their pockets.
And if there’s one thing Joe Jonas cares about, it’s probably money.
He was sure to get along with Swift after their acrimonious breakup — in part, he said, because “nobody fucks with Swifties.”
Sophie’s appearances with Swift this week, once arm in arm just hours before filing this petition, should give Joe Jonas some serious thought.
And if she can maintain her dignified silence – think Jennifer Aniston at the height of Brangelina – Sophie Turner will win, in more ways than one.
