One Tree Hill star Sophia Bush confirmed her relationship with Ashlyn Harris on Thursday, self-authoring a Glamour cowl story which additionally delved into her divorce from Grant Hughes and private fertility journey.
“I lastly really feel like I can breathe,” Bush wrote, including that “I’ve all the time identified my sexuality exists on a spectrum. Proper now I believe the phrase that finest defines it’s queer.”
Bush married Grant Hughes in 2022 after a decade of friendship. She then filed for divorce simply over a 12 months later in August 2023, and was subsequently romantically linked to Harris.
“Those who mentioned I’d left my ex as a result of I all of the sudden realized I needed to be with girls — my companions have identified what I’m into for so long as I’ve (in order that’s not it, y’all, sorry!),” Bush wrote this week.
Within the essay, Bush additionally detailed her private wrestle with fertility therapies, which started shortly after her marriage, describing “countless ultrasounds, hormone pictures, so many blood attracts that I’ve scar tissue in my veins, and retrieval after retrieval, whereas concurrently realizing the particular person I had chosen to be my accomplice didn’t essentially communicate the identical emotional language I did.”
Her well being took one other flip whereas starring in a play in London. “I might put each fiber of my being into my efficiency onstage, after which be packed in baggage of ice as quickly because the curtain closed,” she wrote. “I spent a number of nights within the hospital, I used to be pumped with countless quantities of fluids, I underwent cardiac testing and organ monitoring. It was clear that my physique was screaming and I needed to pay attention. It was arduous for me to just accept. I used to be a part of a crew. However I wanted to go house, the place my docs (and, in truth, my medical insurance) might get a greater deal with on my signs. My time in London was over. So was my marriage. All of it got here crashing down without delay.”
Bush wrote that she and Harris grew shut in a divorce assist group after she returned to Los Angeles. “I didn’t look forward to finding love on this assist system,” she wrote. “I don’t know the way else to say it apart from: I didn’t see it till I noticed it. And I believe it’s very simple to not see one thing that’s been in entrance of your face for a very long time whenever you’d by no means checked out it as an choice and you had by no means been checked out as an choice.”
Relating to the general public reveal of her queerness, she added, “I form of hate the notion of getting to come out in 2024. However I’m deeply conscious that we’re having this dialog in a 12 months after we’re seeing probably the most aggressive assaults on the LGBTQIA+ group in fashionable historical past… I need to give the act of popping out the respect and honor it deserves. I’ve skilled a lot security, respect, and love within the queer group, as an ally all of my life, that, as I got here into myself, I already felt it was my house.”