Jodie Turner-Smith is “over men.”
The actor split from fellow actor Joshua Jackson — the father of her daughter Juno — last year after four years of marriage. Turner-Smith said she’s in no rush to look for love again.
“I’m actually not dating — I’m over men,” she said, speaking to Glamour‘s Women of the Year issue, for which she received the Screen Trailblazer award.
While Turner-Smith is happily single, Jackson has been romantically linked with Lupita Nyong’o. The Queen and Slim actor insisted she shouldn’t have an opinion on what her ex-husband is doing now, so long as any partners are “good” to her and their daughter.
“He can do whatever he wants,” she stated. “Just be good to Juno and be good to Juno’s mum because I’m going to be Juno’s mum forever. It’s really not for me to have an opinion on his journey.”
A year after filing for divorce, the “Acolyte” star admitted she and the “Dawson’s Creek” actor are still figuring out the right way to co-parent.
“It’s an adjustment period for anyone when they split up with someone,” Turner-Smith observed, “because you’re used to being with your child all the time. But nobody hands you a manual. Everyone’s trying to figure it out.”
“Each parent has a different life, and especially if the reason why you’re splitting up is because you have different lives, it’s only further complicated by how you’re going to co-parent,” the actor continued.
And Turner-Smith has found it very hard filming in England while her daughter has been at school in Los Angeles.
“This is going to be the thing I look back on and think, ‘Wow, I survived that,’ ” the actor said. “This is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do … She’s very strong, and she’s so fiery. She comes from a long line of warrior women. Me, on the other hand? This is testing my warriorhood!”
But the “Bad Monkey” star has faith in herself.
“I got this.” Turner-Smith stated. “I got this because the only thing I know how to do is not break. I don’t know what the path to success looks like, but I know that I will not — I shall not — I cannot break.”
