Sophia Bush Makes Relationship With Ashlyn Harris Cover-Story Official

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Some radical stock their beingness updates successful agelong Facebook posts. Sophia Bush shared hers successful a self-authored screen story. In a Glamour essay published April 25, the actor, activist, and podcast big came retired arsenic queer, confirming a long-rumored narration with shot champion Ashlyn Harris. “I benignant of hatred the conception of having to come out successful 2024,” she writes. “But I’m profoundly alert that we are having this speech successful a twelvemonth erstwhile we’re seeing the astir assertive attacks connected the LGBTQIA+ assemblage successful modern history.” Bush says the champion connection to specify her sexuality close present is “queer,” adding, “I’ve ever known that my sexuality exists connected a spectrum.” She provides a timeline for her narration with Harris, saying the pair, who archetypal met successful 2019, grew person portion hanging retired with a enactment radical of precocious separated friends successful L.A. past summer. The rumors that surrounded their narration were “blatant lies,” Bush writes, denying the home-wrecker allegations. Both parties finalized their divorces successful 2023.

Elsewhere successful the essay, Bush says her matrimony to Grant Hughes unraveled astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic her health. She struggled with fertility — “endless ultrasounds, hormone shots … retrieval aft retrieval” — portion feeling disillusioned astatine home. To get distant from the unit of an unhappy marriage, Bush moved to London for a play, wherever she got sick and “spent aggregate nights successful the hospital” aft curtain closed. When she got backmost to L.A., Harris was portion of her caller enactment system. “This mightiness dependable brainsick — but I deliberation different radical successful trauma betterment volition get it — I americium taking heavy breaths again,” she writes. “I tin consciousness my legs and feet. I tin consciousness my feet successful my shoes close now. It makes maine privation to outcry and laughter astatine the aforesaid time.”