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- Sophia Bush and former US soccer player Ashlyn Harris began dating in 2023.
- Bush confirmed her and Harris' relationship and came out as queer in a Glamour cover story.
- Here's a timeline of their relationship, and what they've said about it.
Sophia Bush has opened up about her relationship with Ashlyn Harris for the first time, six months after they were first romantically linked.
In an essay written for her April 2024 Glamour cover story, the "One Tree Hill" actor revealed that she and the recently retired professional soccer player reconnected in an ad-hoc divorcée support group following the end of their respective relationships.
Bush filed for divorce from her entrepreneur husband, Grant Hughes, in early August 2023 after just over a year of marriage.
Meanwhile, Harris, a former member of the United States Women's National Soccer Team, officially divorced her wife, fellow soccer pro Ali Krieger, in September 2023, per Page Six. The two had exchanged their vows less than four years earlier in December 2019, ESPN reported.
Bush wrote in her Glamour essay that she "didn't expect to find love" in the support system she found to help her through her heartbreak.
"I don't know how else to say it other than: I didn't see it until I saw it," she continued. "And I think it's very easy not to see something that's been in front of your face for a long time when you'd never looked at it as an option and you had never been looked at as an option. What I saw was a friend with her big, happy life. And now I know she thought the same thing about me."
Here's a complete timeline of everything we know about Bush and Harris' relationship.
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In her Glamour essay, Bush wrote that she and Harris first met in 2019.
While she didn't elaborate on the details of when or where, that year the two were photographed together, speaking to comedian Travon Free at a US Women's Soccer Team Brunch in Los Angeles on August 4, 2019.
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A month later and back in America, Bush and Harris were publicly seen together during a World Cup watch party.
In one photo from the evening, they smiled for cameras alongside Harris' teammate, Sydney Leroux.
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Seven weeks after marking her first anniversary with Grant Hughes on Instagram by calling their marriage the "best decision" of her life, Bush began proceedings for their legal separation, People reported.
Bush and Hughes, who told Vogue they met a decade ago on a New Year's trip to Nicaragua, tied the knot at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in June 2022.
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According to court documents obtained by Page Six, Harris submitted her petition stating that their union was "irretrievably broken." The news of their split wasn't reported until almost a month later, on October 11.
The pair, who met as USWNT teammates in 2010, share two adopted children: a daughter, Sloane, and a son, Ocean, according to People.
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In October 2023, People reported that Bush and Harris were dating, citing an anonymous source close to the couple.
"After being friends for years, and running in the same social circles, Sophia and Ashlyn went out on their first dinner date a couple of weeks ago," one anonymous source told People. "This is so recent, and they are both beginning new chapters."
At the time, representatives for Bush and Harris did not respond to People's request for comment.
The same anonymous source told People that Krieger and Harris' divorce "began months ago," and that they had been living separately.
