'Game of Thrones' fans defend Sophie Turner, slam Joe Jonas amid divorce

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The North remembers. 

Amid Sophie Turner’s divorce from Joe Jonas — and their messy custody battle — “Game of Thrones” fans are taking to social media to defend the actress and scorn Jonas. 

“I think Joe Jonas overestimated how much the average person is Team Joe Jonas. I didn’t sit through 8 seasons of the most stressful poorly lit show to support that man,” one fan posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. 

Turner, 27, and Jonas, 34, were together for nearly seven years and married for four years, tying the knot in 2019. They welcomed daughter Willa in 2020 and an ‘as yet to be publicly named’ second child in 2022.

Jonas filed for divorce earlier this month. According to the petition obtained by Page Six, Jonas stated that his marriage is “irretrievably broken.”

Their divorce battle heated up on Thursday, when news broke that Turner is suing Jonas to return their kids to their “forever home” in her native England. 

According to the lawsuit, Turner – who was also recently spotted grabbing dinner with Jonas’ other ex, Taylor Swift –  claims she was blindsided by the divorce, and alleges the Jonas Brothers singer is now keeping hold of their kids’ passports — despite previously agreeing they would raise the girls, aged 3 and 1, in the UK. 

Jonas has since denied “abducting” their kids. 

Turner is best known for starring as Sansa Stark for 8 seasons on “Game of Thrones,” between 2011 and 2019. Sansa was a fan-favorite character who millions of people watched grow up onscreen, as she evolved from being a naive girl who daydreamed about handsome princes, to becoming the battle-hardened and politically savvy Queen of the North. 

Sansa also frequently suffered from the machinations of older men in the show, notably getting forcibly married to and raped by Ramsay Bolton (Iwan Rheon), and getting manipulated by the conniving Petyr Baelish (Aidan Gillen). 

Although “Game of Thrones” infamously had an ending that most fans disliked, their memories of Sansa are clearly still fond.

One fan posted an image of Sansa after she gets revenge on Ramsay by giving him a gruesome death.  

“Sophie Turner taking down Joe Jonas after he spent 2 weeks having his PR people trash her name,” the fan posted, next to a screen shot of Sansa telling Ramsay, “Your words will disappear. Your house will disappear. Your name will disappear. All memory of you will disappear.” 

Another “Game of Thrones” fan posted the same meme, and wrote along with it, “Joe Jonas running a smear campaign on Sophie Turner claiming she is a bad mother while keeping her girls from her makes my blood boil. He is trash. Then I think about this,” she said, referring to the meme of Sansa telling Ramsay that all memory of him will disappear. “And laugh because he has f–ked around and is about to find out.” 

Many fans referred to Turner as “The Queen in the North” in their comments. 

“I personally am looking forward to seeing Sophie Turner destroy Joe Jonas. The Queen of the North learned a thing or two from Cersei and Margarey; the downfall of Joe Jonas will be as amazing as seeing the downfall of Littlefinger,” a fan said. 

Another outraged fan wrote, “sophie turner played sansa f–king stark, a woman who watched all her abusers fall without even blinking, and joe jonas thought he could win this custody battle???? be f–ing [for real].” 

“I think he underestimated how much people like Sophie,” another fan remarked. “Somebody had a line in an article about his strategy to make her seem like a bad mom that was something along the lines of ‘you’re not getting millennial women to turn on Sansa Stark’ and it’s so true.”

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