Joshua Jackson, who has been married for more than three years, believes extramarital affairs shouldn’t end relationships.
“I think an affair can be forgiven,” the actor, who married Jodie Turner-Smith in late 2019, told the Sunday Times in an interview published Sunday.
He explained, “We’re all grownups. No one wants to be cheated on and there is massive repair to be done.
The “Dawson’s Creek” alum added that affairs “aren’t about the partner” or “purely about the sex,” but rather a violation that runs “deeper” than many understand.
Jackson, 44, has starred in two projects exploring infidelity: Showtime’s “The Affair” and the small-screen adaptation of “Fatal Attraction,” which premieres on Paramount Plus on April 30.
(The 1987 film, which stars Michael Douglas and Glenn Close, is about how a married man’s affair comes back to haunt him and his family.)
Before tying the knot with Turner-Smith, 36, Jackson dated actress Diane Kruger for ten years.
The pair split in 2016 amid speculation he didn’t want to get married or have kids.
The Canadian actor, who now shares a 3-year-old daughter with Turner-Smith, told the Sunday Times his change of heart over settling down came “partially [because of] age.”
“I’m old enough to be able to do this,” he said, adding that the mental switch is also “about finding somebody in the right moment of life.”
“If [Turner-Smith and I] had met five years earlier we probably would have had a torrid affair,” he explained. “But all the rest of this stuff, I was just not ready. I didn’t think I ever wanted to get married.”
Jackson and the “Queen & Slim” actress met through a mutual friend in 2018, initially insisting that their romance was “casual.”
However, Jackson admitted, the duo would “spend every moment together and find reasons to be in other cities together at the same time.”
In July 2021, Turner-Smith revealed that she was the one who initially popped the question, but it was later revealed that the “Fringe” star also got down on one knee.
They welcomed daughter Janie in April 2020, less than one year after they got married.
“Now, we have this beautiful baby who is literally the manifestation of that love,” he gushed.
“It is impossible for me to look into the face of my child without feeling love for my wife.
“[Fatherhood] has changed me in every single possible way.”
