Turner, who played Sansa Stark throughout the HBO series' entire eight-season run between 2011 and 2019, praised the show for how it "didn't shy away from showing atrocities that happened to women bac

At the time, the brutal scene was met with immense backlash, especially since the scene isn't a scenario in the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, which the series is based on. In George R.R. Martin's A Dance With Dragons, Ramsay's bride is played by a different character who is not in the show, and he forces Theon to sexually interact with his bride.

Sophie Turner says "Game of Thrones" was "actually doing a lot of justice to women" despite generating constant backlash.