Sophia Bush, 41, announces she is queer and in love with Ashlyn Harris as she shares her former partners have always known she was into women: ‘I can finally breathe now!’

Sophia Bush has broken her silence on her considerably-talked about enjoy everyday living as she wrote an essay in her individual words for Glamour magazine.

The 41-yr-outdated star, who was not putting on a shirt for the cover, broke her silence on what is going on with her close romantic relationship with athlete Ashlyn Harris right after her 2023 divorce from Grant Hughes, whom she wed in 2022.

Bush revealed in her have terms that she now identifies as queer: ‘I really feel like I can at last breathe,’ she stated.

And the magnificence admitted that she is in fact ‘in love’ with Harris whom she turned friends with in 2019 then started out a romantic marriage with immediately after her marriage with Grant fell aside and Ashlyn left her spouse. 

‘I did not count on to come across adore in this assist technique,’ started the star who mentioned that her bond with Harris was exceptional and beautiful. ‘I really don’t know how else to say it other than: I failed to see it until finally I noticed it.’

Also in her job interview she pointed out that she had advised her preceding companions that she was attracted to females. In addition to Hughes, she was also married to Chad Michael Murray from 2005 right until 2006.

And Bush also specific her fertility struggle with Hughes which she shared was ‘heartbreaking.’

As much as slipping for 38-yr-previous Ashlyn, who is a former soccer participant, she said it was a new frontier.

‘And I feel it can be extremely straightforward not to see some thing which is been in front of your encounter for a extensive time when you’d by no means looked at it as an solution and you had never ever been looked at as an option,’ she shared.

‘What I observed was a good friend with her huge, content life. And now I know she assumed the very same factor about me,’ said the star.

Bush additional that the road to her intimate marriage with Harris was very long just after they achieved in 2019 and spent a long time getting to be mates: ‘People searching in from the outdoors were not privy to just how considerably time it took, how many agonizing conversations were being experienced,’ mentioned Sophia.

‘A good deal of energy was created to be sleek with other people’s processing, their time and obligations, and their feelings. ‘

She then extra that the rumors about her observing a woman stunned her.

She then explained there were several ‘blatant lies and violent threats’ towards her since she was with Harris

‘There had been the accusations of remaining a house-wrecker,’ she stated.

‘The ones who explained I might remaining my ex for the reason that I instantly realized I desired to be with women—my companions have regarded what I’m into for as very long as I have (so which is not it, y’all, sorry!),’ she stated, producing it incredibly obvious she was open up with her former partners that she preferred girls.

Now she feels pretty relaxed in the queer local community as she has expert so much ‘safety, respect, and like in the queer neighborhood, as an ally all of my existence, that, as I came into myself, I presently felt it was my household.’

Sophia asserted that her sexuality ‘exists on a spectrum.’

And she concluded: ‘Right now I feel the phrase that most effective defines it is queer. I can’t say it devoid of smiling, actually. And that feels really great.’

She also claims that she practically named off her wedding ceremony from Grant simply because it just did not experience ideal about it.

And when her a person calendar year wedding day anniversary rolled all-around she felt sick due to the fact she realized she was not happy and the union was not superior for her.

Sophia also talked over her heartbreaking fertility struggle with several ultrasounds, hormone photographs, blood attracts and egg retrieval amid her failing relationship. 

She was photographed by Lauren Dukoff.