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 solely instructed Us Weekly Bush and Harris “bonded over their breakups and having to start out over” in October 2023, one month after they started relationship.
Us confirmed in August 2023 that Bush and Hughes known as it quits after 13 months of marriage. Bush filed for divorce from the entrepreneur, per court docket paperwork obtained by Us, and listed their date of separation as June 27, weeks after their first wedding ceremony anniversary.
Harris’ ex-wife Krieger, for her half, insinuated her partner cheated throughout their marriage by saying she was in her “Beyoncé ‘Lemonade’ period” in October 2023, one month after Harris filed for divorce. (Beyoncé’s visible album seemingly particulars her relationship with husband Jay-Z after discovering he had been untrue.)
Harris vehemently denied the hypothesis and mentioned she was “all the time devoted” to Krieger in a prolonged assertion through Instagram in November 2023.
Regardless of the drama, Harris and Bush have continued to develop their relationship out of the highlight. Hold studying to see their full relationship timeline.
August 2023
Bush filed for divorce from Hughes, with a supply telling Us on the time that they have been “higher off as associates.”
“It wasn’t ugly and they’re nonetheless supporting one another,” the supply defined. “They need one another to be pleased and for his or her nonprofit to proceed to thrive.”
September 2023
Harris filed for divorce from Krieger after 4 years of marriage. The pair share daughter Sloane and son Ocean.
October 2023
A “couple of weeks” after Harris and Bush’s first official date, a supply instructed Us that the duo have so much in frequent.
“Sophia and Ashlyn insist they have been simply associates, however by all accounts, it was on the spot chemistry,” the insider mentioned on the time. “They love being collectively. They love sports activities and need to do good on the planet.”
December 2023
Harris and Bush attended the annual Artwork Basel competition in Miami. They posed along with gallerist Michelle Tillou in a photograph posted through Instagram on December 7.
March 2024
Bush and Harris “have been collectively consuming and dancing” in New York Metropolis throughout an evening out with actress Hilarie Burton Morgan, an eyewitness solely instructed Us on March 7.
The women tore up the Large Apple whereas attending Netflix’s Girls5Eva season 3 premiere afterparty, with the eyewitness saying, “Ashlyn was holding Sophia and kissing her cheek as they danced.”
Later that month, the duo attended Elton John AIDS Basis’s annual Oscars viewing social gathering at West Hollywood Park on March 10. The Academy Awards social gathering marked the primary time the women posed collectively for public pictures at an occasion.
April 2024
Bush formally got here out as queer in her Glamour cowl story printed on April 25, confirming her relationship with Harris and revealing how they went from associates to one thing extra.
“It took me confronting quite a lot of issues, what felt like numerous classes of remedy, and a few prodding from family members, however ultimately I requested Ashlyn to have a non-friend-group hold to speak about it,” Bush wrote. “And that meal was 4 and a half hours lengthy and really one of the surreal experiences of my life to this point. In hindsight, perhaps all of it needed to occur slowly after which instantly suddenly. Possibly it was all fated. Possibly it truly is a model of invisible string concept.”
Days after Bush’s Glamour cowl story, she and Harris made their purple carpet debut as a pair on the White Home Correspondents’ Dinner on April 27 in Washington, D.C. They have been noticed getting cozy on the WHCD afterparty the identical night time.