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Actress Sophia Bush has come out as queer, a 12 months after asserting that her short-lived marriage had ended.
The 41-year-old star of “One Tree Hill” has opened up about her love life in an intimate feature-length journal article.
Writing in Glamour, she described the chilly toes she skilled earlier than tying the knot with entrepreneur Grant Hughes in July 2022.
“In April of 2022 I used to be near calling off my wedding ceremony. As an alternative of operating away, I doubled down on being a mannequin spouse,” she wrote.
She admitted that they “threw one of many biggest wedding ceremony weekends ever,” however went on to open up in regards to the troublesome 12 months that adopted.
Bush stated she saved attempting to inform herself that “relationships are exhausting” and “marriage takes compromise” however in the end it was the “heartbreak of the fertility course of” that led her to reassess her relationship.
She wrote: “As I misplaced observe of what number of examination tables I had lain on alone, I felt one thing in me seismically shift. Six months into that journey, I believe I knew deep down that I completely had made a mistake.”
This realization, she stated, prompted her to take a while out by acceping a theatrical position in London’s West Finish – although in the end she needed to pull out a while later because of illness.
Then, returning residence to LA final summer time, Bush grew nearer to a bunch of girls who have been additionally going by means of relationship breakdowns and different points at residence. Amongst them was former soccer participant Ashlyn Harris, whom Bush stated she had identified for 4 years and who was splitting from her spouse and former teammate, Ali Krieger.
She described “falling in love” with Harris, including: “I kind 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 once we’re seeing probably the most aggressive assaults on the LGBTQIA+ neighborhood in fashionable historical past.
“There have been more than 500 anti-LGBTQIA+ bills proposed in state legislatures in 2023, so for that cause I wish 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 neighborhood, as an ally all of my life, that, as I got here into myself, I already felt it was my residence.”
“I believe I’ve all the time identified that my sexuality exists on a spectrum,” Bush wrote, including. “Proper now I believe the phrase that finest defines it’s queer. I can’t say it with out smiling, really. And that feels fairly nice.”