


Just like the rest of us, The View can’t stop talking about the saga that is Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas‘ divorce. After the Game of Thrones actress filed a petition asking for the “immediate return” of her two children to the U.K., the co-hosts weighed in on the subject.
“When you have kids and you’re getting a divorce, be very careful what you do. Those kids will be scarred and remember this forever,” Joy Behar warned, while Sunny Hostin chimed in, “And it feels a little like they’re using them as pawns here.”
Jonas and Turner share one-year-old and three-year-old daughters — both of whom have been touring with their father while their mother films a TV show in London. Just weeks after Jonas filed for divorce, Turner alleged that he was “refusing” to hand over their daughters’ passports to send them to England.
Meanwhile, Jonas released a statement claiming his estranged wife is “misleading” the courts by using language like “abduction.” According to the singer — who is fine with his kids being raised in both countries — the children are currently with Turner, who is allegedly “making this claim only to move the divorce proceedings to the U.K. and to remove the children from the U.S. permanently.”

“This whole saga has rubbed me the wrong way,” Alyssa Farah Griffin said. “I felt like as soon as it was announced, there was kind of a slander campaign against Sophie Turner — someone who’s an incredibly accomplished actress. She’s been working since before she was 18 on Game of Thrones.“
Griffin added, “It kind of waded into some of the mom-shaming but also maybe slut-shaming, which I didn’t like.”
The former White House staffer pointed out that the situation could get “super dicey” as it’s going to conflict with American law and English law if it turns into an “international custody battle.”
“The most important thing — as a child of divorce — these are very young kids,” Griffin noted. “Ideally you’re with both parents. But if you can’t be, I think at one and three, you need to be with your mom.”
However, Ana Navarro had a different reason for wanting the divorce to go through “amicably.”
“You have no idea how badly I am hoping that they solve this amicably so we can stop talking about it,” she said, before Behar reminded her, “Well, we talked about [Ron] DeSantis all week!”
The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.