Joshua Jackson Says Wife Jodie Turner-Smith Changed His Mind on Marriage and Kids: 'I Was Just Not Ready'

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Joshua Jackson is opening up about his marriage to his wife, Jodie Turner-Smith. In an interview with , the  star shared that it was meeting Turner-Smith that changed his mind about getting married and having children.«Partially, it's age,» Jackson tells the British publication. «I'm old enough to be able to do this.

Partially it's about finding somebody in the right moment of life. If we had met five years earlier we probably would have had a torrid affair, but all the rest of this stuff, I was just not ready.

I didn't think I ever wanted to get married.»Jackson, 44, recalled meeting 36-year-old Turner-Smith through a mutual friend at a 2018 charity event in Los Angeles.

Jackson said he and Turner-Smith would «spend every moment together and find reasons to be in other cities together at the same time.»The Murder Mystery 2 actress previously revealed that neither party expected their relationship to last as long as it has, reflecting on their meeting during an appearance on  in May 2021, where she joked that the pair had a one-night stand that's evolved into a «three-year one-night stand.»Turner-Smith explained that they met at a party where she played hard to get. «First of all, I saw him before he saw me and when I saw him, I was like, 'I want that,'» she said.