Finally speaking her side. Jodie Turner-Smith responded to Joshua Jackson’s divorce updates. The Queen & Slim actress revealed her true feelings about her split from Jackson after four years of marriage.
“Sometimes things we really want to work just don’t end up working. And that’s OK,” she told The Times UK. “The most important thing is that you choose what’s healthiest for you and your family and definitely your children.”
“There are so many different moments in our life where we look at ourselves and say, ‘Who am I and am I being true to that?’ If the answer is no, then you have to make a move because I believe that there are visible scars from staying in places that are not good for us. And they don’t just affect us, they affect everybody around us.”
“I don’t think it’s a failure,” she said of her marriage. “We obviously had such a beautiful moment together. And now it’s time for a new moment for both of us. And how exciting.”
According to TMZ, the divorce papers listed “irreconcilable differences” as a cause for the divorce. Celebrity divorce lawyer Laura Wasser is representing Smith in the divorce, with the actress asking for joint custody of their daughter. The date of separation is listed as September 17, 2023.
Turner-Smith proposed to the Cruel Intentions star during a New Year’s Eve vacation to Nicaragua. “I don’t know if she planned it or if it was a spur-of-the-moment thing, but out popped a proposal I was not expecting and the organic and instinctive answer was yes,” Jackson said to The Times.
“Six months [after the proposal], she was pregnant and we were on our way. And now we have this beautiful baby who is literally the manifestation of that love,” Jackson added. “It is impossible for me to look into the face of my child without feeling love for my wife.”
Jackson was hesitant to get married in the first place. ”Partially, it’s age,” Jackson explained. “I’m old enough to be able to do this. Partially it’s about finding somebody in the right moment of life.”He admitted, “If we had met five years earlier we probably would have had a torrid affair, but all the rest of this stuff, I was just not ready. I didn’t think I ever wanted to get married.”
As for Turner-Smith, she decided to keep everything a secret from the public for a reason. “Everything happened at the same time for me,” she explains to People about her romance with the Dawson’s Creek actor. “It was like, I fell in love right before I started this movie that would basically change my life, and then by the time I was putting this movie out I was pregnant, I was secretly married and I was trying to have one moment and not let the other moment overshadow it, which is why I tried to keep it secret.”
Then, says Turner-Smith, “The whole world stopped and there was a global pandemic and I got to slow down with this precious child of mine.”
