Sophia Bush Thanks Fans for ‘Kindness’ After Coming Out as Queer

Sophia Bush is thanking her supporters and followers for the assist she acquired immediately after coming out as queer and confirming her relationship with USWNT alum Ashlyn Harris.

“Ever-evolving + nonetheless weird,” the Chicago P.D. alum, 41, captioned a guiding-the-scenes video of her Glamour shoot by means of Instagram on Friday, April 26.

She continued, “Thank you for the kindness, vulnerability, and the tales and journeys of your have so many of you have shared. Courage is contagious. Here’s to a everyday living in progress.”

Admirers, friends and celebs have been quick to remark on Bush’s put up, with her fellow “Drama Queens” podcast cohost and previous 1 Tree Hill costar Hilarie Burton Morgan creating, “Love you enjoy you enjoy you,” even though Harris, 38, said,”You’re great.”

A independent social media person included, “What a Lady, what a SHOOT, what an incredible human staying. You are PHENOMENAL and a pressure to be reckoned with. You are likely to aid so lots of other humans sense like they can breathe all over again far too.”

Bush arrived out in a self-written protect tale for Glamour printed on Thursday, April 25, which marked the initially time she commented on her romance with Harris. She also denied that she cheated on her ex-husband, Grant Hughes.

“As I arrived into myself, I now felt it was my property. I think I have always known that my sexuality exists on a spectrum,” Bush wrote. “Right now I believe the term that most effective defines it is queer. I cannot say it with out smiling, basically. And that feels rather good.”

She ongoing, “I at last experience like I can breathe. I don’t feel I can reveal how profound that is. I feel like I was carrying a weighted vest for who understands how extended. I hadn’t understood how major it was right up until I last but not least just put it down.”

Bush was married to Hughes, 42, for a very little much more than one particular yr before the John Tucker Need to Die actress submitted for divorce in August 2023. By Oct of that year, she was romantically connected to Harris following they bonded amid their respective splits.

Harris was beforehand married to U.S. soccer star Ali Krieger, whom she wed in 2019. The exes are moms and dads to two youngsters: daughter Sloane, 3, and son Ocean, 20 months.

In her essay, Bush also dealt with the “blatant lies” and “accusations of currently being a homewrecker” amid her and Harris’ divorces, retaining that the allegations manufactured from her were untrue.

“The types who claimed I’d still left my ex since I quickly recognized I wanted to be with females — my partners have regarded what I’m into for as extended as I have,” she wrote. “The strategy that I left my relationship dependent on some hysterical rendezvous — that, to be crystal-distinct, hardly ever happened — alternatively than acquiring taken around a calendar year to do the most soul crushing perform of my lifestyle? Instead than noticing I had to be the most vulnerable I’ve at any time been, on a community phase, irrespective of being terrified to my core? It feels brutal.”

However Bush explained her coming out journey was “long and thoughtful and exhaustive” and one that she didn’t want to share on social media in actual time, she reported her dad and mom are completely supportive of her and who she loves.

“After the news turned community, my mom instructed me that one particular of her friends named her and reported, ‘Well, this just cannot be accurate. I signify, your daughter isn’t gay,’” Bush wrote. “My mom felt that it was noticeable, from the way her close friend emphasized the term, that she intended it judgmentally. And you know what my mother said? ‘Oh honey, I assume she’s pretty homosexual. And she’s delighted.’”