Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas: A Complete Divorce Timeline

September 18, 2023: Turner and Jonas have lunch with their daughters in New York City.

September 12, 2023: Turner is spotted back at work filming the upcoming series Joan in Spain for the first time since the news dropped, and she was rocking a totally new look. For the character, she wore a blonde bob and a massive back tattoo, both of which you can see here. (Actors in Europe were not on strike; she was not a scab!) As the outlet noted, Turner, who was photographed while taking a cigarette break, holds her phone, which has a Toy Story case on it. She and Joe got Buzz Lightyear tattoos together. My heart!

September 9, 2023: Joe Jonas makes his first solo public statement to fans during the Jonas Brothers concert at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. “It’s been a tough week. I just wanna say, look, if you don’t hear it from these lips, don’t believe it,” he told the crowd, per fan recordings. “Okay? Thank you everyone for your love and support. Me and my family love you guys.”

After his speech, Jonas appeared to shed a tear as he performed “Hesitate,” according to one fan video.

September 8, 2023: Bartender Hezron Stephenson speaks out about the Daily Mail’s characterization of his story in a video published on TikTok. “Everything’s been spun in a terrible way and I feel like such a prick,” he says. “All this is my fault and I’m very sorry for it. It wasn’t intentional.”

Stephenson covers a lot of ground in the four-minute TikTok video, noting that he didn’t really know who Turner was or anything about her life before she came to the bar. He adds that the reason they had discussed clubs was because they learned they’re from the same area—just normal small talk.

“It wasn’t even a party,” Stephenson explains, countering the Mail’s version of events. “It was literally, like, 40 people there—there were producers, executives, they were people that she was working with. And now it’s been spun about like she was out on the set.” [Editor’s note: “The set” is British slang for a party, and not the work-related kind.]

He also says that he asked permission to post the photos of Turner at the bar, and her team said yes. “Then two days later it gets about that she’s getting a divorce,” he says.

“The annoying thing for me is obviously [her team] would’ve known that she was getting a divorce,” he continues. “Just because it wasn’t publicized, they would’ve known what was going on. I kind of feel a little let down that we then posted the photos…and then were told that we have to take them down because of what was going on.”

As for her carefree demeanor in the photos, Stephenson says that she was simply obliging his requests to smile and pose for the cameras, and that, while she did enjoy some drinks with her colleagues, “She wasn’t getting smashed.”