Jodie Turner-Smith files for divorce from Joshua Jackson after four years of marriage
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Jodie Turner-Smith has filed for divorce from fellow actor Joshua Jackson after four years of marriage.
The "After Yang" and "Anne Boleyn" star submitted a petition for dissolution of marriage in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Sunday, citing "irreconcilable differences" between her and her partner. She and the "Dawson's Creek" alum wed in August 2019 and share one child.
Turner-Smith, 37, and Jackson, 45, separated in September, the filing states. Turner-Smith has requested joint legal and physical custody of their daughter, whom they welcomed in April 2020.
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Earlier this year, Turner-Smith told People that she developed feelings for Jackson shortly before she began filming one of the biggest projects of her career, 2019's "Queen & Slim."
"Everything happened at the same time for me," she said.
"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."
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After Turner-Smith told late-night host Seth Meyers that their romance kicked off with a "one-night stand" in 2018, Jackson clarified to Insider that it was "technically a three-night stand."
"It was sealed with a kiss that night and then we didn't leave each other's sides for, well, three years now," he told the publication in July 2021.
"When we tell the baby the story, I think I'm probably going to lead with, 'I saw your mother from across the room and just like knew I had to be with her,' which is also true," he added. "But my wife is not telling a lie when she says we'd started off mostly with sex."
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That same month, the "Fringe" actor opened up to Esquire about Turner-Smith's decision to deliver their child at home instead of a hospital. He said he supported the choice because he "wanted her to be in a place where she felt like she was being heard at every step along the way, rather than having to go through that filter of being a Black woman interfacing with the American medical system.”
In a 2020 essay for British Vogue, Turner-Smith reflected on her pregnancy journey and experience giving birth at home.
“We had already decided on a home birth, because of concerns about negative birth outcomes for Black women in America — according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the risk of pregnancy-related deaths is more than three times greater for Black women than for white women, pointing, it seems to me, to systemic racism," she said.
Times news researcher Scott Wilson contributed to this report.
This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
