Sophia Bush
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Some individuals share their lifestyle updates in extensive Facebook posts. Sophia Bush shared hers in a self-authored cover tale. In a Glamour essay revealed April 25, the actor, activist, and podcast host arrived out as queer, confirming a extensive-rumored relationship with soccer champion Ashlyn Harris. “I kind of hate the idea of obtaining to arrive out in 2024,” she writes. “But I’m deeply informed that we are possessing this conversation in a year when we’re observing the most intense assaults on the LGBTQIA+ local community in modern historical past.” Bush says the ideal phrase to outline her sexuality proper now is “queer,” incorporating, “I’ve often known that my sexuality exists on a spectrum.” She supplies a timeline for her relationship with Harris, declaring the pair, who first fulfilled in 2019, grew closer though hanging out with a assist team of lately separated buddies in L.A. last summer time. The rumors that surrounded their connection were “blatant lies,” Bush writes, denying the home-wrecker allegations. Both of those parties finalized their divorces in 2023.
Elsewhere in the essay, Bush claims her relationship to Grant Hughes unraveled at the exact time as her well being. She struggled with fertility — “endless ultrasounds, hormone shots … retrieval soon after retrieval” — when feeling disillusioned at home. To get absent from the strain of an sad marriage, Bush moved to London for a engage in, wherever she received ill and “spent a number of nights in the hospital” soon after curtain closed. When she obtained back again to L.A., Harris was component of her new help program. “This could sound outrageous — but I consider other folks in trauma restoration will get it — I am getting deep breaths yet again,” she writes. “I can truly feel my legs and feet. I can truly feel my toes in my shoes proper now. It can make me want to cry and snicker at the exact same time.”