In 2019, on Twitter’s “#BehindTheTweets” series, Sophie Turner shared an awkward encounter she had with Matthew Perry in 2016 on the streets of London. The “Game of Thrones” star said she mustered up the courage to walk over to Perry after seeing him outside a local supermarket near her home. “I would walk around the corner every day to go to my local Budgens, which is a great little supermarket … and I would see Matthew Perry outside smoking a cigarette,” she recalled. “I bought a lighter from Budgens so that I could walk up to him and offer to light his cigarette, and it was already lit. So, that was just embarrassing.” Explaining the reason behind her 2016 tweet, Turner admitted that she wanted her celebrity crush to reach out to her and ask her out on a date. “I thought he might see this tweet and then, I don’t know… ask me on a date or something,” she said, laughing. “But he didn’t.”
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The year Turner bumped into Perry was the year she met her now-estranged husband, Joe Jonas. The two subsequently married in a surprise Vegas ceremony after the 2019 Billboard Music Awards. The former couple recently announced their separation after four years of marriage and the birth of their daughters, Willa and Delphine. “There are many speculative narratives as to why [we are separating] but, truly this is a united decision,” the former couple said in a joint statement on Instagram.
