
Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner. Getty Photographs (2)
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.
Throughout the Wednesday, September 6, live performance in Phoenix, Arizona, Jonas, 34, adjusted the lyrics to “Hesitate.”
“Don’t be scared as a result of I’m on her aspect,” Jonas crooned on Wednesday, per live performance footage shared by way of X (previously Twitter).
“Hesitate,” which dropped in 2019 on the band’s LP Happiness Begins, initially featured the road, “Don’t be scared as a result of I’m in your aspect.”
Jonas has lengthy been candid about how “Hesitate” was impressed by his romance with Turner, 27.
“‘Hesitate’ is a music I wrote. It’s like my vows earlier than I wrote my vows. It’s my promise to Sophie,” he stated throughout the Jonas Brothers’ 2020 documentary, Chasing Happiness. “I can see within the viewers when it’s positively these different folks’s songs. I see {couples} holding one another. I see someone, that music obtained them via one thing.”
He continued: “For me, it takes me to an entire different universe, I’m seeing her stroll down the aisle once more each time I shut my eyes.”

Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner. Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Photographs
Because the Jonas Brothers kicked off The Tour in August, “Hesitate” had an everyday slot on the three-hour setlist. Every evening, Jonas would dedicate the quantity to Turner regardless of her attendance within the crowd. (The Recreation of Thrones alum solely attended the group’s opening evening in New York Metropolis on August 12 on account 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 little one, 14 months, whose identify hasn’t been publicly shared. Us Weekly confirmed on Tuesday, September 5 — someday 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 damaged.”
“After 4 fantastic years of marriage we now have mutually determined to amicably finish our marriage,” Joe and the England native wrote in a joint Instagram assertion on Wednesday, hours earlier than the Phoenix live performance. “There are a lot of speculative narratives as to why however, really it is a united determination and we sincerely hope that everybody can respect our needs for privateness for us and our youngsters.”
A supply later informed Us that the pair had hit a tough patch within the marriage “some time” earlier than saying their break up. “Mates may see there had been a disconnect between the 2 for some time now, and their connection simply didn’t appear fairly the identical because it had been up to now,” the insider defined earlier this month. “Joe hadn’t let many individuals know their points went additional than that and that they’d been struggling of their marriage for longer than they let on.”