This Might Be the A-List Couple That Sophie Turner Caused To 'Break Off' Their Engagement
Sophie Turner revealed that she may have contributed to a famous couple’s decision to break off their engagement, and we think we’ve identified who she was referring to.
Let us bring you up to speed. Turner was on Late Night With Seth Meyers on August 15 where she recalled a “quite crazy” evening that “went really south really quick” at Comic-Con San Diego a few years back.
The 29-year-old actress recalled being at an after-party with a childhood friend, saying that her pal “saw this actor she, like, loved” and asked Turner to speak with him. The Game of Thrones alum said that she waved to the unnamed actor, “and that was it,” she insisted.
“Later on, I see this girl looking at me and she’s a famous actress. And I go, ‘I have to go and tell her how much she means to me,'” the Emmy-nominated actress said.
She reveals that she danced up to the actress to say “hi” when the star quipped, “Can you stop f–king flirting with my fiancé?”
When Turner asked who the woman’s fiancé was, she “point[ed] at the guy” that the X-Men star had waved at earlier in the night.
“I have no idea who this man is,” Turner claimed. “Turns out, they broke their engagement off that night because of my [wave]. I didn’t realize I held this power.”
So, who was the celebrity couple that Turner allegedly broke up? Upon investigation, we think that the couple Turner was referring to was Emma Roberts and Evan Peters.
The actress was careful not to reveal their identities, saying, “I really can’t name names or I’ll get in a lot of trouble.” But we do have a few clues. At the top of the conversation, Turner mentioned that this happened a year before Meyers moderated a Game of Thrones panel at Comic-Con. Per Variety, Meyers moderated a panel with Turner and her co-stars in 2015, meaning Turner’s interactions with the unnamed celebrity couple happened in 2014.
Photos from July 2014’s Comic-Con in San Diego show that Turner was in attendance, and so were Roberts and Peters. To get more specific, there are also photos of Turner and Roberts both attending Entertainment Weekly’s Annual Comic-Con party. Peters doesn’t appear in photos from the event, but was at Comic-Con that same day attending events for his and Roberts’ show, American Horror Story.
As for whether Roberts and Peters’ relationship timeline lines up, the infamously turbulent couple were so on and off that it’s hard to know exactly when their many breakups happened.
Roberts and Peters started dating in 2012 on the set of their film Adult World. In July 2013, Roberts was arrested for domestic abuse after an altercation with Peters. She was released without charges.
In January 2014, they got engaged. There is no record of a July 2014 breakup during Comic-Con, but the couple did break up and get back together several times over the next few years.
Their first public split was announced in June 2015, before they reconciled two months later. They split again in 2016 before reconciling again later that year. Then, in 2019, they called it quits for good.
“I think that no matter who you are or what you do or wherever in the world you are, anything ending is hard. Losing something is hard,” Roberts said of their split in a June 2019 Cosmopolitan cover. The following year, she welcomed a son with Garrett Hedlund. After their 2022 breakup, Roberts got engaged to actor Cody John in 2024.
After his breakup with Roberts, Peters dated singer Halsey from September 2019 until March 2020.
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