‘One Tree Hill’ Star Sophia Bush Confirms Relationship With Ashlyn Harris

One Tree Hill star Sophia Bush confirmed her relationship with Ashlyn Harris on Thursday, self-authoring a Glamour cover story which also delved into her divorce from Grant Hughes and personal fertility journey.

“I finally feel like I can breathe,” Bush wrote, adding that “I’ve always known my sexuality exists on a spectrum. Right now I think the word that best defines it is queer.”

Bush married Grant Hughes in 2022 after a decade of friendship. She then filed for divorce just over a year later in August 2023, and was subsequently romantically linked to Harris.

“The ones who said I’d left my ex because I suddenly realized I wanted to be with women — my partners have known what I’m into for as long as I have (so that’s not it, y’all, sorry!),” Bush wrote this week.

In the essay, Bush also detailed her personal struggle with fertility treatments, which began shortly after her marriage, describing “endless ultrasounds, hormone shots, so many blood draws that I have scar tissue in my veins, and retrieval after retrieval, while simultaneously realizing the person I had chosen to be my partner didn’t necessarily speak the same emotional language I did.”

Her health took another turn while starring in a play in London. “I would put every fiber of my being into my performance onstage, and then be packed in bags of ice as soon as the curtain closed,” she wrote. “I spent multiple nights in the hospital, I was pumped with endless amounts of fluids, I underwent cardiac testing and organ monitoring. It was clear that my body was screaming and I had to listen. It was hard for me to accept. I was part of a team. But I needed to go home, where my doctors (and, truthfully, my health insurance) could get a better handle on my symptoms. My time in London was over. So was my marriage. It all came crashing down at once.”

Bush wrote that she and Harris grew close in a divorce support group after she returned to Los Angeles. “I didn’t expect to find love in this support system,” she wrote. “I don’t know how else to say it other than: I didn’t see it until I saw it. 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.”

Regarding the public reveal of her queerness, she added, “I sort of hate the notion of having to come out in 2024. But I’m deeply aware that we are having this conversation in a year when we’re seeing the most aggressive attacks on the LGBTQIA+ community in modern history… I want to give the act of coming out the respect and honor it deserves. I’ve experienced so much safety, respect, and love in the queer community, as an ally all of my life, that, as I came into myself, I already felt it was my home.”