Bush (left) confirmed her relationship with the sports activities star (proper). (Getty)
Sophia Bush has come out and confirmed her relationship with retired soccer participant Ashlyn Harris in an unique first-person piece for Glamour Journal.
The One Tree Hill star stated she “hates the notion of getting to return out in 2024“, however understands the significance of standing proud in your id “in a yr after we’re seeing essentially the most aggressive assaults on the LGBTQ+ neighborhood in fashionable historical past.”
Bush, who portrayed Brooke Davies within the coming-of-age drama, mirrored on the five hundred anti-LGBTQ+ payments which have been proposed within the US final yr, explaining that her popping out as queer must be given “the respect and honour it deserves”.
She wrote: “I’ve skilled a lot security, respect, and love within the queer neighborhood, as an ally all of my life, that, as I got here into myself, I already felt it was my dwelling.
“I feel I’ve all the time identified that my sexuality exists on a spectrum. Proper now I feel the phrase that finest defines it’s queer. I can’t say it with out smiling, truly. And that feels fairly nice.”
The John Tucker Should Die actor filed for divorce from her ex-husband Grant Hughes in August. Bush was first linked to her companion Harris in October when Individuals journal reported they have been relationship. They didn’t trace at their relationship publicly till March once they attended an Oscars viewing get together collectively.
Bush addressed rumours that her relationship with Harris began earlier than the footballer divorced from fellow athlete Ali Krieger in September, explaining that she has no have to appease trolls.
“Everybody that issues to me is aware of what’s true and what isn’t,” wrote Bush within the piece. “However even nonetheless there’s part of me that’s a ferocious defender, who desires to right the file piece by piece. However my higher self, along with her earned persistence, has to take a seat again and ask, What’s the f**king level? For who? For web trolls? No, thanks. I’ll spend my valuable time doing issues I really like as a substitute.”
Bush additionally wrote about navigating homophobic backlash after the information dropped about their relationship. She recalled how certainly one of her mom’s pals referred to as her and stated, “Nicely, this could’t be true. I imply, your daughter isn’t homosexual.”
To this, the actor praised her mom’s assist. “My mother felt that it was apparent, from the way in which her pal emphasised the phrase, that she meant it judgmentally,” Bush wrote. “And what my mother stated? ‘Oh honey, I feel she’s fairly homosexual. And he or she’s pleased.’”