Sophia Bush is fighting back against those who accusing her of being a “home-wrecker” in her relationship with former US soccer player Ashlyn Harris, calling the internet rumours “blatant lies.”
In case you missed it, news broke in October 2023 that Bush and Harris were seeing each other, shortly after it was reported that Harris and fellow soccer star Ali Krieger were getting divorced. Although the news of the split was reported in October, Harris, who shares two young kids with Krieger, had filed for divorce in mid-September. For her part, Bush had split with her husband a few months prior.
After the news of their relationship became public, many online began to accuse Bush and Harris of getting together while they were still with their respective spouse. However, in her raw and emotional April 2024 Glamour cover story, Sophia Bush is putting the rumours to rest, once and for all.
Namely, she says, there was no wrongdoing on either side. In fact, she writes, she and Harris met in a makeshift support group for friends going through a divorce. But just as quickly as the couple started to explore their future together the internet rumours began—and they usually do—and it “quickly turned ugly,” she writes.
“What felt like seconds after I started to see what was in front of me, the online rumor mill began to spit in the ugliest ways,” Bush writes. “There were blatant lies. Violent threats. There were the accusations of being a home-wrecker. The ones who said I’d left my ex because I suddenly realised 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!).”
