Ashlyn Harris is reflecting on her ongoing divorce from ex Ali Krieger amid her new romance with Sophia Bush.
The previous U.S. Ladies’s Nationwide Soccer Crew (USWNT) participant, 38, opened up about “one of many hardest seasons” of her life in a brand new interview with Ladies’s Well being printed on Wednesday, July 17.
“I’m navigating a divorce that’s been actually laborious,” Harris instructed the outlet. “I’m simply driving the waves and realizing I can solely management what’s in my controllables. I can’t management everybody else’s response. I can’t management everybody else’s opinions of me. I’ve to personal myself and my physique and be current and be human.”
Noting that she is making an attempt to keep up a way of normalcy for her and Krieger’s two youngsters – daughter Sloane, 3, and son Ocean, 2 – Harris instructed the outlet that her “storm doesn’t haven’t to be theirs.”
Sophia Bush and Ashlyn Harris’ friendship turned romantic on the heels of their respective divorces from Grant Hughes and Ali Krieger, and so they’ve been quietly constructing their relationship. A supply completely instructed Us Weekly Bush and Harris “bonded over their breakups and having to begin over” in October 2023, one month after they started relationship. […]
She continued, “It’s one of many hardest issues I’ve ever needed to undergo — coping with a divorce with two very younger youngsters and never letting them see or really feel my storm and rain. It’s a very massive take a look at.”
The duo first met in 2010 whereas competing on the USWNT, received engaged in 2019 and married that very same 12 months. Harris filed for divorce from the two-time World Cup champ in September 2023, and Krieger submitted her personal submitting in December that 12 months.
In November 2023, Harris felt compelled to talk out in regards to the on-line hate she was receiving after her and Krieger’s break up. On the time, rumors of a romance with Bush, 42, have been prevalent, however each events have maintained that they have been out of their respective relationships earlier than getting collectively romantically. (Bush break up from ex Grant Hughes after a little bit multiple 12 months of marriage. The previous spouses wed in June 2022 and went their separate methods in August 2023.)
“The web hate that has occurred since has been one of the vital personally devastating experiences of my life,” Harris wrote partly by way of Instagram. “Phrases matter. The cheering on abuse, the folks clamoring to encourage me to commit suicide, and the merciless phrases spoken about my youngsters, and who I’m as a mom? These phrases matter.”
Bush confirmed her relationship with Harris in April after popping out as queer in an essay for Glamour.
“As I got here into myself, I already felt it was my house. I feel I’ve at all times recognized that my sexuality exists on a spectrum,” she wrote within the journal’s cowl story. “Proper now I feel the phrase that finest defines it’s queer. I can’t say it with out smiling, truly. And that feels fairly nice.”
