Originally appeared on E! Online.
Sophie Turner doesn’t have time for anything serious at the moment.
Two months after multiple outlets reported that the “Game of Thrones” actress was casually seeing Chris Martin, she insinuated she was single in rare comments about her dating life.
“I haven’t seen my friends or gone on a date in weeks, months!” she told Net-A-Porter in published Jan. 5. “I just sack off parts of my life sometimes. I only have the capacity for work and family right now. But I’m working on it. I’ll get there.”
Indeed, Turner — who shares daughters Willa, 5, and Delphine, 3, with ex Joe Jonas — pushed back on the “fish bowl” that comes with being the spotlight, especially after her 2023 breakup with the Jonas Brothers singer.
“People take so much as fact these days,” she explained. “Any article that comes out, people go, ‘Right, that must have happened.’ You feel like you’re gagged because silence is always the way to let something die out. But it means that you can’t stand up for yourself ever, so there’s a feeling of helplessness and shame.”
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And when the reported stories are true, Turner — who most recently dated Peregrine Pearson — lamented on how it affects her dynamic with close family and friends.
“I get calls from my mum going, ‘Oh my God, darling, I didn’t know this happened,’” she continued. “And I’m like, ‘It might have happened, but I wasn’t ready to tell you, let alone the world…’ You just don’t have the narrative over your own story.”
For Martin’s part, he has been similarly thrust into the spotlight where his dating life is concerned following his breakup from Dakota Johnson in June after nearly eight years together.
Neither Martin — who shares kids Apple, 21, and Moses, 19, with ex Gwyneth Paltrow — have addressed their breakup, but Johnson confirmed she was on the market after joking to Today about what she looks for in a potential partner while promoting “The Materialists” in June, saying, “Just like, not an a–hole.”
