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.
The One Tree Hill star stated she “hates the notion of getting to come back out in 2024“, however understands the significance of standing proud in your id “in a 12 months once we’re seeing probably the most aggressive assaults on the LGBTQ+ neighborhood in trendy historical past,” she wrote in a first-person piece for Glamour Journal.
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 12 months, explaining that her popping out as queer ought to 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 house.
“I feel I’ve at all times identified that my sexuality exists on a spectrum. Proper now I feel the phrase that greatest 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 associate Harris in October when Individuals journal reported they have been relationship. They didn’t trace at their relationship publicly till March after 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 must 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 document piece by piece. However my higher self, together 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 an alternative.”
Bush additionally wrote about navigating homophobic backlash after the information dropped about their relationship. She recalled how certainly one of her mom’s associates known as her and stated, “Effectively, 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 best way her good friend emphasised the phrase, that she meant it judgmentally,” Bush wrote. “And you realize what my mother stated? ‘Oh honey, I feel she’s fairly homosexual. And he or she’s comfortable.’”