Joe Jonas Wishes Hopeful Parents ‘Luck’ After Sophie Turner Lawsuit

Joe Jonas isn’t simply letting the music do the speaking within the wake of Sophie Turner’s custody lawsuit in opposition to him.

“Do we now have any mother and father in the home?” Jonas, 34, asked the crowd on the Jonas Brothers’ present on the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on Thursday, September 21, earlier than performing fan-favorite ballad “Little Bird.”

“If you’re attempting to have children, better of luck,” the singer continued.

Jonas — who, earlier on tour, beforehand devoted the emotional tune to a grieving mom who misplaced her daughter — is in the course of a messy divorce from Turner, 27, with whom he shares two younger daughters: 3-year-old Willa and a 14-month-old child woman whose title they haven’t publicly revealed.

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Proud mother and father! While Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas have stayed fairly non-public since welcoming their daughter, Willa, they’ve given glimpses right here and there of life with their infant. News broke in February 2020 that the Game of Thrones alum was pregnant together with her and the DNCE member’s first child. “[She’s] due within the […]

Earlier on Thursday, the Game of Thrones alum sued Jonas, claiming he was wrongfully detaining their children within the U.S. after allegedly agreeing to completely relocate the youngsters to Turner’s dwelling nation of England. Turner additionally alleged that the musician was preserving their daughters’ passports from her.

“Sophie suggested that she needed to take the youngsters completely to the U.Okay. Thereafter, she demanded through this submitting that Joe hand over the youngsters’s passports in order that she might take them overseas instantly. If he complies, Joe might be in violation of the Florida Court order,” a rep for Jonas informed Us on Thursday. “Joe is searching for shared parenting with the youngsters in order that they’re raised by each their mom and father, and is in fact additionally OK with the youngsters being raised each within the U.S. and the U.Okay. The kids had been born within the U.S. and have spent the overwhelming majority of their lives within the U.S. They are American residents.”

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The rep elaborated: “When language like ‘abduction’ is used, it’s deceptive at finest, and a critical abuse of the authorized system at worst. The kids weren’t kidnapped. After being in Joe’s take care of the previous three months on the settlement of each events, the youngsters are presently with their mom.”

Thursday was an emotional day for Jonas, who hugged his brothers on stage after performing “Hesitate,” which incorporates his and Turner’s marriage ceremony vows. (The exes tied the knot in two totally different ceremonies in 2019.)

“If you got here right here tonight with somebody you like, put your arms round them proper now and say, ‘I really like you,’” Nick Jonas informed the gang.

Turner, for her half, has been noticed out in New York City with Taylor Swift twice this week. Joe and Swift, 33, beforehand dated for a number of months in 2008.