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Sophia Bush desires you to know that she and her spouse, Ashlyn Harris, didn’t have an affair with one another after they had been each married to different individuals, okay? Throughout an look on Alex Cooper’s Name Her Daddy podcast this week to talk about her new memoir, Bush reiterated that she and Harris, who began courting in 2023, related by way of a help group for ladies going by way of divorce. By the point they received collectively, she says, they had been each separated and now not dwelling with their exes.
Bush and Harris revealed their relationship simply two months after every had introduced their splits from their earlier companions. Harris and her ex, Ali Krieger, had been as soon as a U.S. Girls’s Nationwide Crew energy couple and welcomed two kids collectively in the course of the course of their four-year marriage. Shortly after Harris and Bush revealed they had been courting, Krieger fanned the flames of the infidelity rumors, writing on Instagram that she was in her “Beyoncé Lemonade period.” Her brother commented, “These hoes ain’t loyal!! However me and your followers are,” all of which went over about in addition to you’d assume it could.
Ali Krieger and Ashlyn Harris in February 2023.
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Bush and her ex-husband, Grant Hughes, had been married for simply 13 months earlier than she filed for divorce. Not a lot is thought about Hughes, who isn’t a girls’s soccer star, aside from what Bush wrote about him in her glowing anniversary Instagram put up in June 2023. On this week’s interview, she informed Cooper that in hindsight, she had recognized all alongside the wedding was not meant to be and that she ought to’ve listened to her intestine.
Grant Hughes and Sophia Bush in March 2023.
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For the haters who nonetheless don’t consider Bush, the One Tree Hill alum has the next phrases: “Anybody who thinks that was an informal leap for me doesn’t know me.” Bush, who had by no means been in a critical relationship with a girl earlier than Harris, painted an image of a two-week postdivorce interval by which she “changed into Rainman,” pacing round her home “making sounds” whereas she contemplated her emotions. “God, this sounds so homosexual,” Bush stated of her mind-set of the time. “It wasn’t simply that I used to be interested in her, it was like ‘Oh, are you the opposite piece of the puzzle?’”
Whereas she says the connection was fully above board, Bush does have some regrets about their public timeline. “Do I want that as an alternative of flying dwelling and stopping in New York as a result of I already had tickets to a comedy present and taking her on a date, I’d taken her on a date six weeks later?” she stated. “Yeah, after all I do. However I can’t change it.”
Bush and Harris received married in 2025, and Krieger has been linked to a different former soccer participant, Jen Beattie, since 2024. Hughes is operating marathons, which, certain. All’s nicely that ends nicely, I suppose? Right here’s hoping we will all get previous this, as a result of the concerned events actually have.
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