Sophia Bush publicly reflected on how 2023 ‘broke and betrayed’ her after suffering through a ‘divorce summer’ following the end of her 13-month marriage to husband Grant Hughes in August.
‘What a year. My whole life I’ve heard the saying “put your own oxygen mask on first” and this year I learned what it meant,’ the 41-year-old One Tree Hill alum – who boasts 7.1M social media followers – wrote on Monday.
‘This past year humbled me, broke me, built me, betrayed me, freed me, and showed me what it means to really be alive.’
Sophia felt like she left her body ‘a long time ago’ but now she can ‘feel my whole self from the tops of my ears to the tips of my toes.’
‘This year taught me to listen to myself and no one else. To let go of expectation that wounds, and grasp possibility that frees,’ Bush wrote.
Sophia Bush publicly reflected on how 2023 ‘broke and betrayed’ her after suffering through a ‘divorce summer’ following the end of her 13-month marriage to husband Grant Hughes in August (pictured March 12)
The 41-year-old One Tree Hill alum wrote on Monday: ‘What a year. My whole life I’ve heard the saying “put your own oxygen mask on first” and this year I learned what it meant. This past year humbled me, broke me, built me, betrayed me, freed me, and showed me what it means to really be alive’
‘To not care about optics and instead invest in honesty – the truest and deepest and purest kind. This year sent me inward. More than I’ve ever been. It took me out of [a] relationship with many of you but put me back into [a] relationship with myself.’
The Work in Progress producer-host went on to reveal she had come down with an undisclosed illness, and the recovery gave her the time and space to find her voice again through daily journaling.
‘This year I slowed down; first because illness forced me to. Second because recovery required more stillness,’ Sophia explained.
‘In that way both sickness and healing are a gift. For those gifts I am so grateful. Thank you, thank you, thank you to this life for teaching me. Thank you, thank you, thank you to this year that changed everything.
‘That allowed me to burn what never served me, and find what does in the ashes. Charcoal is a purifier. Clarity comes like lightning in the dark. This is my deepest learning season yet. Thank you, a thousand times.’
Bush’s girlfriend since October – Ashlyn Harris – commented on her Instagram post: ‘”Clarity comes like lightning in the dark,” Beautiful words and powerful!’
The Aunt Flow investor rang in the New Year with the 38-year-old retired soccer star, who’s ‘grateful for a year that taught me so much’ amid her own divorce from wife Ali Krieger in September.
Ashlyn and the 39-year-old retired soccer star – who separated last summer – continue to co-parent their two-year-old daughter Sloane Phillips and 16-month-old son Ocean Maeve after ending their four-year marriage.
Sophia felt like she left her body ‘a long time ago’ but now she can ‘feel my whole self from the tops of my ears to the tips of my toes’ and she learned ‘to not care about optics and instead invest in honesty’
Bush went on to reveal she had come down with an undisclosed illness, and the recovery gave her the time and space to find her voice again through daily journaling: ‘In that way both sickness and healing are a gift’ (pictured Monday)
The Work in Progress producer-host concluded: ‘Thank you to this year that changed everything. ‘That allowed me to burn what never served me, and find what does in the ashes. Charcoal is a purifier. Clarity comes like lightning in the dark. This is my deepest learning season yet. Thank you, a thousand times’ (pictured December 7)
Sophia’s girlfriend since October – Ashlyn Harris – commented on her Instagram post: ‘”Clarity comes like lightning in the dark,” Beautiful words and powerful!’
Bush rang in the New Year with the 38-year-old retired soccer star, who’s ‘grateful for a year that taught me so much’ amid her own divorce from wife Ali Krieger in September (pictured Monday)
Ashlyn and the 39-year-old retired soccer star – who separated last summer – continue to co-parent their two-year-old daughter Sloane Phillips and 16-month-old son Ocean Maeve after ending their four-year marriage (pictured December 22)
The Aunt Flow investor (R) and Harris (M) were last pictured together attending an Art Basel event in Miami on December 7 alongside art dealer, Michelle Tillou (L)
Sophia will next produce and star as concerned wife and mother Allison in Bryan Greenberg’s (R) opioid thriller Junction, which hits limited US theaters January 26
‘Let me be clear: I did not step out on my marriage,’ Harris clarified on November 18.
‘I was always faithful in my marriage, if not always totally happy.’
However, Sophia and the Florida-born athlete did speak on the same feminist panel during the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in Frace on June 19.
Bush and Harris were last pictured together attending an Art Basel event in Miami on December 7 alongside art dealer, Michelle Tillou.
The SoCal native will next produce and star as concerned wife and mother Allison in Bryan Greenberg’s opioid thriller Junction, which hits limited US theaters January 26.
The film also stars Bryan Greenberg, Griffin Dunne, Ryan Eggold, Jamie Chung, and Dascha Polanco.
