Shortly after Joe Jonas filed for divorce from Sophie Turner, he subtly tweaked the lyrics of the Jonas Brothers ballad that he wrote in her honor.
During the Wednesday, September 6, live performance in Phoenix, Arizona, Jonas, 34, adjusted the lyrics to “Hesitate.”
“Don’t be scared because I’m on her side,” Jonas crooned on Wednesday, per live performance footage shared through X (formerly Twitter).
“Hesitate,” which dropped in 2019 on the band’s LP Happiness Begins, initially featured the road, “Don’t be scared because I’m on your side.”
Jonas has lengthy been candid about how “Hesitate” was impressed by his romance with Turner, 27.
“‘Hesitate’ is a song I wrote. It’s like my vows before I wrote my vows. It’s my promise to Sophie,” he stated throughout the Jonas Brothers’ 2020 documentary, Chasing Happiness. “I can see in the audience when it’s definitely those other people’s songs. I see couples holding each other. I see somebody, that song got them through something.”
He continued: “For me, it takes me to a whole other universe, I’m seeing her walk down the aisle again every time I close my eyes.”
As the Jonas Brothers kicked off The Tour in August, “Hesitate” had an everyday slot on the three-hour setlist. Each night time, Jonas would dedicate the quantity to Turner no matter her attendance within the crowd. (The Game of Thrones alum solely attended the group’s opening night time in New York City on August 12 because of her filming schedule in England.)
Jonas has since sung the OG lyrics on additional dates of The Tour with brothers Kevin Jonas and Nick Jonas, together with the Friday, September 8, live performance in Las Vegas.
Joe and Turner wed in 2019, shortly earlier than welcoming two daughters: Willa, 3, and a second youngster, 14 months, whose identify hasn’t been publicly shared. Us Weekly confirmed on Tuesday, September 5 — at some point earlier than Joe’s lyric swap — that he had filed for divorce after 4 years of marriage. The DNCE frontman famous in his submitting that their relationship was “irretrievably broken.”
“After four wonderful years of marriage we have mutually decided to amicably end our marriage,” Joe and the England native wrote in a joint Instagram assertion on Wednesday, hours earlier than the Phoenix live performance. “There are many speculative narratives as to why but, truly this is a united decision and we sincerely hope that everyone can respect our wishes for privacy for us and our children.”
A supply later instructed Us that the pair had hit a tough patch within the marriage “a while” earlier than asserting their break up. “Friends could see there had been a disconnect between the two for a while now, and their connection just didn’t seem quite the same as it had been in the past,” the insider defined earlier this month. “Joe hadn’t let many people know their issues went further than that and that they had been struggling in their marriage for longer than they let on.”
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