Some individuals share their life updates in lengthy Fb posts. Sophia Bush shared hers in a self-authored cowl story. In a Glamour essay printed April 25, the actor, activist, and podcast host got here out as queer, confirming a long-rumored relationship with soccer champion Ashlyn Harris. “I kind of hate the notion of getting to come out in 2024,” she writes. “However I’m deeply conscious that we’re having this dialog in a yr after we’re seeing probably the most aggressive assaults on the LGBTQIA+ neighborhood in fashionable historical past.” Bush says the very best phrase to outline her sexuality proper now could be “queer,” including, “I’ve at all times identified that my sexuality exists on a spectrum.” She supplies a timeline for her relationship with Harris, saying the pair, who first met in 2019, grew nearer whereas hanging out with a assist group of not too long ago separated buddies in L.A. final summer time. The rumors that surrounded their relationship have been “blatant lies,” Bush writes, denying the home-wrecker allegations. Each events finalized their divorces in 2023.

Elsewhere within the essay, Bush says her marriage to Grant Hughes unraveled concurrently her well being. She struggled with fertility — “infinite ultrasounds, hormone pictures … retrieval after retrieval” — whereas feeling disillusioned at residence. To get away from the stress of an sad marriage, Bush moved to London for a play, the place she bought sick and “spent a number of nights within the hospital” after curtain closed. When she bought again to L.A., Harris was a part of her new assist system. “This would possibly sound loopy — however I feel different individuals in trauma restoration will get it — I’m taking deep breaths once more,” she writes. “I can really feel my legs and toes. I can really feel my toes in my sneakers proper now. It makes me wish to cry and giggle on the identical time.”