Sophia Bush confirms connection with Ashlyn Harris: ‘The universe experienced been conspiring for me’

Sophia Bush at last feels like she can breathe just after coming out as queer and opening up about her prolonged-rumored romantic relationship with soccer star Ashlyn Harris.

“When I choose inventory of the past number of several years, I can notify you that I have under no circumstances operated out of extra integrity in my lifetime. I hope that’s very clear adequate for everyone speculating out there,” the “One Tree Hill” alum wrote Thursday in an essay for the April concern of Glamour.

The 41-yr-previous in-depth how her one particular-12 months marriage to Grant Hughes felt phony and fell aside amid her grueling fertility challenges. She also explained how her recovery from that relationship led her to Harris, who at the same time had been going by her own divorce from previous teammate Ali Krieger.

Bush wrote that following her storybook wedding day — which she doesn’t regret — she observed herself “in the depths and heartbreak of the fertility system.” She retained all that non-public as she endured months of ultrasounds, hormone photographs, blood attracts that led to scar tissue in her veins and quite a few egg retrievals, “while concurrently recognizing the particular person I experienced decided on to be my lover didn’t automatically communicate the same emotional language I did.”

The “Work in Progress” and “Drama Queens” podcast host stated she felt one thing in her “seismically shift” about 6 months into that journey and “knew deep down that I absolutely had built a miscalculation,” finally filing for divorce following about 13 months of relationship. Her separation from Hughes, an entrepreneur and serious estate investor, observed Bush moving to London “to get out of our house” and executing a enjoy to “jump-start off the joy” she had been chasing. (She withdrew from “2:22 A Ghost Story” in July 2023 owing to sickness.)

The “Love, Victor” and “Chicago P.D.” actor moved back again to her empty property in L.A. final summer season and stated that an ever-expanding team of women of all ages in her life commenced opening up about their individual challenges. That group incorporated the “kind ear” of the U.S. Women’s Nationwide Group goalkeeper, whom she’d first achieved in 2019. She didn’t anticipate to obtain love there.

“I do not know how else to say it other than: I didn’t see it right until I saw it. And I think it’s pretty simple not to see some thing which is been in front of your encounter for a lengthy time when you’d under no circumstances appeared at it as an solution and you had by no means been appeared at as an possibility.”

It took other folks in their “safe assist bubble” to level out to Bush that she and Harris would end each and every other’s sentences or be deeply impacted by the same points, she wrote.

Studies about the couple’s romance surfaced in Oct, months just after they just about every submitted for divorce. The “One Tree Hill” alum and the U.S. Women’s National Group goalkeeper reportedly went out on their initially meal day a few of months prior, Persons noted at the time, and TMZ asserted that they had been “officially a thing.”

In her essay, Bush get rid of mild on that purported first day, which she described as a 4½-hour food that was “truly one of the most surreal activities of my daily life hence much.”

“I do know that for a sparkly moment I felt like maybe the universe experienced been conspiring for me,” she wrote. But navigating the judgment she felt in the public eye was disheartening.

“The types who claimed I’d still left my ex for the reason that I instantly realized I desired to be with females — my partners have recognized what I’m into for as extended as I have (so that’s not it, y’all, sorry!),” she wrote, noting that she didn’t leave her marriage mainly because of some random rendezvous but instead soon after a calendar year of “doing the most soul-crushing operate of my lifetime.”

Bush also fawned about her partner‘s integrity and really like for her small children.
As for her identity, the lifestyle-extensive LGBTQIA+ ally explained emotion at household with the queer community.

“I imagine I’ve generally known that my sexuality exists on a spectrum. Appropriate now I imagine the word that best defines it is queer,” she wrote. “I can not say it without having smiling, essentially. And that feels rather good.”