Sophia Bush has broken her silence on her much-talked about love life as she wrote an essay in her own words.
The star, who was not wearing a shirt for her latest magazine cover for Glamour, broke her silence on what is going on with her close relationship with athlete Ashlyn Harris after her 2023 divorce from Grant Hughes whom she wed in 2022.
Bush revealed in her own words that she now identifies as queer: ‘I feel like I can finally breathe,’ she said.
And the beauty admitted that she is indeed ‘in love’ with Harris. ‘I didn’t expect to find love in this support system,’ began the star. ‘I don’t know how else to say it other than: I didn’t see it until I saw it.’
Also in her interview she noted that she had told her previous partners that she was attracted to women. In addition to Hughes, she was also married to Chad Michael Murray from 2005 until 2006.
Sophia Bush has broken her silence on her much-talked about love life as she wrote an essay in her own words. The star, who was not wearing a shirt for her latest magazine cover for Glamour, broke her silence on what is going on with her close relationship with athlete Ashlyn Harris after her 2023 divorce from Grant Hughes whom she wed in 2022
Bush revealed in her own words that she now identifies as queer: ‘I feel like I can finally breathe,’ she said. And the beauty admitted that she is indeed ‘in love’ with Harris. ‘I didn’t expect to find love in this support system,’ began the star
Bush with Harris in July. She said they began friends in 2019 then grew closer when they both became single
And Bush also detailed her fertility struggle with Hughes which she shared was ‘heartbreaking.’
As far as falling for Ashlyn, she said it was a new frontier.
‘And I think it’s very easy not to see something that’s been in front of your face for a long time when you’d never looked at it as an option and you had never been looked at as an option,’ she shared.
‘What I saw was a friend with her big, happy life. And now I know she thought the same thing about me,’ said the star.
Bush added that the road to her romantic relationship with Harris was long after they met in 2019 and spent years becoming friends: ‘People looking in from the outside weren’t privy to just how much time it took, how many painful conversations were had,’ said Sophia.
‘A lot of effort was made to be graceful with other people’s processing, their time and obligations, and their feelings. ‘
She then added that the rumors about her seeing a woman shocked her.
She then said there were many ‘blatant lies and violent threats’ toward her because she was with Harris
‘There were the accusations of being a home-wrecker,’ she said.
‘The ones who said I’d left my ex because I suddenly realized I wanted to be with women—my partners have known what I’m into for as long as I have (so that’s not it, y’all, sorry!),’ she said, making it very clear she was open with her former partners that she liked women.
Now she feels very comfortable in the queer community as she has experienced so much ‘safety, respect, and love in the queer community, as an ally all of my life, that, as I came into myself, I already felt it was my home.’
With her ex Grant Hughes in 2022 in Washington, DC
‘I don’t know how else to say it other than: I didn’t see it until I saw it.’ Also in her interview she noted that she had told her previous partners that she was attracted to women. In addition to Hughes, she was also married to Chad Michael Murray from 2005 until 2006
‘There were the accusations of being a home-wrecker,’ she said. ‘The ones who said I’d left my ex because I suddenly realized I wanted to be with women—my partners have known what I’m into for as long as I have (so that’s not it, y’all, sorry!),’ she said, making it very clear she was open with her former partners that she liked women’
Sophia asserted that her sexuality ‘exists on a spectrum.’
And she concluded: ‘Right now I think the word that best defines it is queer. I can’t say it without smiling, actually. And that feels pretty great.’
She also says that she almost called off her wedding because it just did not feel right about it.
And Sophia discussed her heartbreaking fertility battle amid with several ultrasounds, hormone shots, blood draws and egg retrieval. her failing marriage.
She was photographed by Lauren Dukoff.
