Sophia Bush is finally clearing the air about her relationship with former soccer player Ashlyn Harris.
In an essay published by Glamour, not only does the One Tree Hill star come out as “queer” for the first time, but she confirmed her relationship with Harris and addressed the “homewrecker” rumors.
“I finally feel like I can breathe,” Sophia Bush wrote about declaring her sexuality. “I don’t think I can explain how profound that is.”
The actress then shared that she felt like she was wearing a weight vest for so long. “I hadn’t realized how heavy it was until I finally just put it down,” she wrote. “This might sound crazy – but I think other people in trauma recovery will get it – I am taking deep breaths again.”
Bush filed for divorce from entrepreneur Grant Hughes this past summer. The couple had been married for a little more than a year before calling it quits.
Just a couple of months later, PEOPLE reported that Sophia Bush moved on and was dating Ashlyn Harris. However, the actress was heavily criticized because Harris had called it quits on her marriage to fellow soccer player Ali Kreiger weeks before the relationship surfaced.
Many speculated that cheating had occurred and that Bush was a “homewrecker.” The address wrote about the gossip.
“The idea that I left my marriage based on some hysterical rendezvous – that to be crystal-clear, never happened – rather than having taken over a year to do the most soul-crushing work of my life? … It feels brutal.”
Sophia Bush Recalls Bonding With Ashlyn Harris Over Their Divorces
Opening up about her relationship with Ashlyn Harris, Sophia Bush confirmed the two had met in 2019. They became close in the summer of 2023 and had consoled each other as they went through their divorces.
Although she had asked Harris for a “non-friend-group-hang,” the duo ended up having a four-hour dinner. She described it as one of the “most surreal experiences” she’s ever had.
“Maybe it was all fated,” Sophia Bush wrote about the divorces and her relationship with Ashlyn Harris. “May it really is a version of invisible string theory. I don’t know.”
“But I do know that for a sparkly moment I felt like maybe the universe had been conspiring for me. And that feeling that I have in my bones is one I’ll hold on to no matter where things go from here.”
Sophia Bush and Ashlyn Harris went public with their relationship at the ArtBasel in Miami during the 2023 holiday season. They were recently seen at Elton John’s Oscar party and celebrated Ruby Rose’s 38th birthday.