Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas have confirmed they are set to divorce after four years of marriage.

In a joint statement the actress, 27, and singer, 34, stated that their split was ‘a united decision’ and they ‘mutually agreed’ to end their marriage.

In the statement, posted on Sophie’s Instagram, they said: ‘After four wonderful years of marriage we have mutually agreed to amicably end our marriage.

‘There are many speculative narratives as to why but, truly this is a united decision and we sincerely hope everyone can respect our wishes for privacy for us and our children.’

Joe officially filed for divorce from wife Sophie on Tuesday with documents stating that their relationship is ‘irretrievably broken.’

Speaking out: Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas have confirmed they are set to divorce after four years of marriage

Breaking their silence: In a joint statement the couple stated that their split was ‘a united decision’ and they ‘mutually agreed’ to end their marriage

It comes after a friend close to Sophie told MailOnline that she felt trapped in her marriage to Joe Jonas and regretted ‘missing out’ on her youthful, carefree years after tying the knot with him and having two children at a young age.

A friend of Sophie’s, who did not want to be named, revealed that the couple started having problems last Christmas and that she separated from him at the start of this summer, spending the ensuing months partying with school friends in the UK or holidaying with them in Europe.

The actress looked in high spirits as she partied the night away at arcade bar Dropshot Digbeth in Birmingham – where she had been filming her upcoming ITV series, Joan.

In an effort to save the marriage, Joe came to the UK with their two children over the summer and spent time in Warwickshire, where Sophie was brought up.

But after failing to work through their differences, he returned to the US with their children who have been living with him since the split.

The friend revealed: ‘Sophie feels like she’s only just waking up to what her life and reality really is. She became famous at a very young age, then married and had kids at a young age and never really had the teenage years of sleeping around and just having carefree fun with friends.

‘She feels like her life has stalled after Game of Thrones and so has her personal life. Since the kids came along, she’s feeling trapped. She’s the only person in her tight friendship group who is married with two children.’

The friend added: ‘Now she feels that she wants to make up for the time she’s lost as a young person. He (Joe) wants a more settled life but she’s not ready for that because she feels that she’s not even had a teen or young adult life.’

It’s over! Joe officially filed for divorce from wife Sophie on Tuesday with documents stating that their relationship is ‘irretrievably broken’

The friend also claimed that one point of contention between Sophie and Joe is that he wanted to have another child.

She added: ‘Joe would like another kid, he’s a real family man. But while Sophie’s been in the UK, she’s also realised just how much she misses this country; it’s the final nail in the coffin for them.’

According to the friend, Sophie also felt increasingly pressurised at being compared to glamorous Indian actress Priyanka Chopra, 41 who is married to Joe’s young brother Nick, 30, which led her to question the future of the marriage.

The friend revealed: ‘His brother’s wife is a lot older and mature, and the family compare Sophie to Priyanka, which has put her (Sophie) under a lot of stress.

‘Nick is younger than Joe but is more settled. He and Priyanka are on the same page about their careers and family life. Joe and his family want him to be in a relationship like this, but Sophie feels that she’s only 27 and hasn’t even really lived because she’s spent all her good, young years working.

‘It wasn’t an issue at first but the age gap between Sophie and Joe has become a real problem. They want very different things.’

The actress revealed in an interview on The Graham Norton Show in 2019 that she felt she missed out on British university life after opting to join Game of Thrones instead.

She said: ‘I wish I’d had the university experience.

‘I wish I could have gone out and drunk a lot and thrown up in the middle of a club without it being photographed.’

Joe and Sophie’s romance started in 2016 after he contacted her via an Instagram Direct Message.

Court documents obtained by DailyMail.com reveal that Joe stated his marriage to Sophie is ‘irretrievably broken’ – and lay out the former couple’s plans to share custody of their three-year-old daughter Willa and their one-year-old daughter, whose name they have not revealed.

The paperwork lists Willa by her initials, W.J., and hints at their other daughter’s name, listing her as D.J.

In the marriage dissolution petition, Jonas’ lawyer states: ‘It is in the best interests of the minor children that the parties have shared parental responsibility.’

Joe ‘respectfully requests’ in the documents that he and Sophie ‘establish a parenting plan’ and a ‘timesharing schedule’, with Willa and D.J.’s primary residence listed as Miami, Florida, where he and Sophie had been living.

It had been reported on Monday that Joe has been caring for the children ‘pretty much all of the time’ over the past three months, with TMZ claiming that he and Sophie had been having ‘serious problems’ for at least six months.

The outlet also reported that the pair’s marriage began to break down over stark lifestyle differences – with Joe reportedly preferring to ‘stay at home’, while his now-estranged wife ‘liked to party’.

The couple’s divorce documents do not share any further details about the reasons but their split, however they do reveal that both parties ‘entered into a valid and enforceable prenuptial agreement’ on April 29, 2019 – days before they tied the knot in Las Vegas.

Happier times: Snaps of Sophie partying over the weekend emerged on Saturday, after a friend told MailOnline that she regretted missing out on her younger years after marrying Joe

Still with a ring on: The pair had been in different continents in the days leading up to the filing, with the actress in UK and Joe in America on his Jonas Brothers tour (pictured in Texas on Sunday)

Joe’s lawyer did not include the pre-nup in the dissolution filing in order to ‘protect the privacy rights of both parties’, however the documents further suggest that he has no plans to request child support from Sophie, stating: ‘Both parties have the ability to provide for the support of the minor children and they should both be required to contribute to the support of the minor children.’

Joe’s was pictured on August 11 not wearing his wedding ring. However, for a performance alongside his brothers in Austin, Texas, on September 3 it was firmly back on his finger.

Sophie and Joe, who first started dating in 2016 after being introduced by mutual friends, got engaged one year later, flaunting their pending nuptials on Instagram with similar captions of ‘I said yes,’ and ‘She said yes.’

Tying the knot two years after their engagement with two ceremonies — the first, a private intimate affair in Las Vegas with a second, grander wedding in Paris, they appeared to be a perfectly happy couple.

Sophie gushed about her husband in an interview with Jimmy Fallon in May 2022 and said she knew that he was the one almost immediately. When Jimmy asked Sophie when she knew she’d marry Joe, she replied: ‘I mean the first night I met him.’