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.
In the course of 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 facet,” Jonas crooned on Wednesday, per live performance footage shared by way of X (formerly 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 facet.”
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 received them via one thing.”
He continued: “For me, it takes me to a complete different universe, I’m seeing her stroll down the aisle once more each time I shut my eyes.”
Because the Jonas Brothers kicked off The Tour in August, “Hesitate” had an everyday slot on the three-hour setlist. Every night time, Jonas would dedicate the quantity to Turner no matter her attendance within the crowd. (The Sport of Thrones alum solely attended the group’s opening night time in New York Metropolis on August 12 attributable to 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 baby, 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 damaged.”
“After 4 fantastic years of marriage we have now 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 numerous speculative narratives as to why however, really it is a united resolution 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 asserting their cut up. “Buddies might 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 prior 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.”